Mark Henderson, Chief Information Officer of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
On September 27, 2014, InfoCityCU hosted its first community-based lecture with speaker Mark Henderson, chief information officer of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign speaking at the Champaign Public Library. This was Henderson’s first off-campus speaking engagement since becoming Illinois’ CIO on August 16, 2014. He spoke about his experiences as interim vice president and chief information officer for Information Technology Services at Case Western Reserve University, as well as the importance of technology for the future of everyday life.
Information City lectures are hosted in conjunction with InfoCityCU, a partnership between the Community Informatics Lab at the Graduate School of Library & Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, headed by Associate Professor Kate Williams and Professor Emeritus Abdul Alkalimat; the Department of African American Studies; the Digital Equality Initiative; and Chrisp Media.
InfoCityCU builds upon decades of public computing innovation in Champaign-Urbana to pursue equitable and citywide access to technology, digital literacy, and relevant online content and applications.
This new lecture series, launched earlier in September 2014 with a lecture by Celeste Choate, director of the Urbana Free Library, is an evolution of the Digital Divide lecture series that GSLIS has sponsored for the past six years. “An information city is coming into being. The industrial city was a result of all kinds of forces. This time around, can we be more conscious and deliberate? Can we make sure the outcomes work for all of us? This means conversation, so the Digital Divide Lectures become the Information City Lectures,” Williams explained.
For more information visit the Information City Lecture Series webpage, http://groups.lis.illinois.edu/cilab/DigitalDivide.html.
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