The Team
Here is the project team. Please also see our contact list for more details
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Danny Budzak is
responsible for managing Newham Council's web site and is based in Central Computing
Services. Danny is a member of Newham Online's Steering Committee. Danny has been working with community information systems for the past five years. This has involved creating a videotext system 'NOISE' (Newham Online Information Services) which successfully ran in the all the libraries for three years. More recently he has been working on the Council's internet, intranet and ATTACH system. Danny has worked as a research officer and reference librarian, he is also just about to finish an MSc in Information Science at City University. |
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Steve Cameron is Director of Newham Community Education and Youth Service. | |
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Max Krafchik is
assistant director (strategy, partnerships and information systems) in Newham Council's
Education Department. He also leads the information systems delivery team for the
South-West Newham Education Action Zone. Please contact Max, or Paul Whiteman (Head of Education IT) if you would like any further information on ICT issues - both curriculum and administrative - in Newham's schools or education department. |
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Rik Lewis is a
regeneration consultant with a specialisation in research and technology development. He
has a background in development and planning, and economic development. He is the
Secretary of the London Branch of the Institution of Economic Development and London's
representative on the National Council. He has an active involvement in environmental
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Jacqui Mace is
Business Manager at Newham Sixth Form College in Plaistow. Jacqui is responsible for
all externally funded programmes including projects under ESF, ERDF, SRB, LETEC and
self-financing courses. Jacqui is also the ICT manager at the college and has recently
managed the introduction of fully networked internet access and other computer
installations and upgrades. Jacqui worked in medical research for several years before becoming a teacher but for the past 16 years has taught Computer Studies and Science and still teaches for a few hours a week. She is particularly interested in teaching through the use of information technology and is the college manager for a project to deliver on-line training programmes to local small and medium sized enterprises involving all the East London colleges. |
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Chris McLean is
head of Distributed Learning for Newham College of Further Education. He started at the
college, in learning resources section, in 1983 and became a Computing lecturer a couple
of years later. In 1893 he became one of the computing managers at the college's Stratford
Campus. More recently Chris has managed European Social Funded Adapt projects for the
college. Chris is currently working with a number of UK FE colleges and major partners from the corporate sector such as: IBM; Lotus; ICL and NETg to develop high quality distributed learning systems and content for the FE sector and its customers (small to medium size enterprises, community organisations and college based learners). He is currently working with external consultants to develop state of the art Internet and Intranet sites for the college and working with the BBC to enable learners to use their website to study towards a formal qualification. Chris is also an active member of Newham Online, Newham Learning Grid, East London and Lee Valley Teleregion and a collaboration project with local FE colleges. |
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Roger McMaster
is the Acting Head of Libraries and is based at the Leisure Services Department
offices at 292 Barking Road E6. The Library Service has been providing information technology for public use for some time. It provides access to CD Roms in all libraries and to the Internet and Open Learning materials at the Beckton Globe. The Libraries Dept. wants to spread that availability, to provide individuals with the opportunity to use IT and to learn about it and have access to the information which it delivers whether for educational, employment, or training reasons or indeed out of simple interest. The see themselves as providing points of access to the potential of the Grid, as being important providers of information to the Grid and equally importantly in helping people find their way round the huge mass of information that they will find on the Grid. |
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Nod Miller is
Professor of Innovation Studies at the University of East London. She joined UEL in 1995
after 17 years in the Faculty of Education in the University of Manchester, most recently
as Head of the Centre for Adult and Higher Education. She describes herself variously as
an adult educator, a media sociologist, a communications specialist, a fan of popular
culture, an action researcher, a T-group trainer, a feminist autobiographer, an
experiential learner and an internationalist. She has written and edited books on adult education, learning from experience and media policy; her most recent book (co-edited with David Boud) is Working with experience: animating learning (Routledge, 1996). Her current research interests include the use of new technologies in education and the place of technology in everyday life. One of her current projects is organising UEL's Festival of Lifelong Learning to take place in Docklands during 2000-1 and she is keen to contribute to the development of Newham Learning Grid as an important resource for lifelong learning. |
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Michael Mulquin is
Executive Director of Communities Online, which is promoting an inclusive Information
Society. Communities Online does this by focusing on the local, and has about 80 local ICT
projects in its network, exchanging information and ideas through several different email
discussion lists. CO run events and have a web site on www.communities.org.uk. It also works with
Government at various levels and, for instance, Michael is on the Policy Action Team
looking at IT in deprived neighbourhoods run by the DTI. He is also involved in setting up
the European Association for Community Networking which is linking similar initiatives up
throughout Europe. Finally, Michael is chair of Newham Online. Michael lives in East Ham and has been working in Newham since 1989. He was a Race Equality Officer with Newham Council for Racial Equality for just over 2 years and then Co-ordinator of the Community Involvement Unit of Aston Charities for six years. Before that he had spent 3 years in India and 8 years in Pakistan, he can speak and read Urdu fairly fluently. Michael is interested in Newham Learning Grid, partly because it has very important links with the development of Newham Online and partly because he is interested generally in ICTs and local education. This is helped by the fact that Communities Online has the Director of the Scottish Council for Educational Technology and a member of staff from the British Education and Communication Technology Agency on its Board, which helps to keep Michael up to date on these issues. In general Michael is very interested in the way the technology can help build stronger links between schools and other educational institutions and the local community, to the benefit of both. |
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John Potter John
Potter is a senior lecturer in Primary Education at the University of East London. He
teaches English and ICT on the Primary PGCE course, in addition to undertaking tutoring in
partnership schools. He has responsibility for ensuring compliance with the new
requirements for IT in Initial Teacher Education. Until September '98, John worked -for two years -as an IT Advisor with the Newham Information Technology Advisory & Support Service (ITASS). As part of a team of four, John devised and ran training and support for serving teachers (and those in training) in the use of ICT in the Primary Curriculum. He also helped to create the ITASS website and courses principally concerned with using the Internet in the Curriculum. John's main research interests are in teaching and learning styles with ICT in schools, particularly use of the Internet and communications technology. In particular, how they may be integrated into the curriculum. He is currently looking at ways of developing the UEL PGCE web pages to disseminate good practice and facilitate better communication and interaction on an intensive but geographically distributed course! John sees the
Newham Learning Grid as the opportunity to build a usable and locally responsive web space
which provides a model for the wider, National Grid for Learning. works for UeL at the
Dept. of Education and Community Studies. He has a personal web site that provides useful
links for teachers, associate teachers and lecturers working with ICT in Initial Teacher
Training. It refers mainly to UK Education resources. |
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Gavin Sealey is a
Senior Development Worker for Newham Community Education and Youth Service (NewCEYS). He
is the initiator and coordinator of the Newham Young People Online (NYP Online) project. NYP Online is now a constituted group,
increasing managed by the young people themselves as a sustainable 'online community'. In addition to his work with NYP Online, Gavin has responsibility for developing Information Technology within NewCEYS' youth work curriculum. He also has development responsibilities within Newham's North East Area. Gavin works directly with young people and has run a number of website authoring courses for them over the last several months. In addition to the NYP Online website, Gavin has created a number of personal sites. Gavin has worked in Newham for over ten years and has lived in the Borough since 1992. He is qualified as a teacher and youth worker. |
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Richard Steel is
Head of IT Contract Services for the London Borough of Newham, where he has been
instrumental in the development of CCS (Computing and Communications Services). CCS,
"IT Department of the Year 1997" (and a 1998finalist) is renowned for its
leadership in the development of corporate IT service provision. Currently, Richard is
leading on the set-up of an innovative Joint Venture with a private sector company for the
provision of IT services in Newham. Although Richard's major role comprises corporate IT services management for Newham Council, in the last 3 years a significant amount of his time has been occupied in co-ordinating Newham's involvement in Public Information Services projects. He is Technical Co-ordinator of the ATTACH Community Access system, a member of the East London & Lee Valley Teleregion Advisory Group and Vice-Chair of Newham Online. Richard also plays a leading role in the Council's pursuit of an ambitious "Local Service Strategy" which incorporates Document Image Processing/ Corporate Integrated Database and Data Warehouse. |
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Richard Stubbs
is Director of Newham Online. He is
responsible for running this Web site which supports the work of the team developing the
Newham Learning Grid and runs the Newham Learning Grid mailing list. He co-ordinates the
Newham Gateway & Extranet project. Richard has lived in Newham for 25 years much of which time has been spent on co-operative, community and economic development. His most recent work, other than Newham Online, has been assisting with the development of the St. Luke's Centre in Canning Town. Richard helped set up UK Communities Online and is Chair of UK Citizens Online Democracy. In the latter role he helped launch Newham Young People Online for which he is treasurer. He is also treasurer of Community Economy which runs the Pier Training Shop in N. Woolwich. He is Chair of Newham Co-operative Party and has a much neglected personal web site. |
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Paul Whiteman is
Head of Education IT for the LEA. He is responsible for ICT strategy and co-ordinating the
work of the IT Advisory and Support Service (ITASS) which provides support and advice for
curriculum ICT as well as administrative systems in schools and head office. Paul
worked as a secondary school teacher in the borough for ten years and moved to central
administration in 1989 to assist with the introduction of Local Management of Schools
(LMS). Current work includes local implementation of the National Grid For Learning (NGFL)
and ICT support for one of the first Education Action Zones. |
