Amy Mahan
AMY MAHAN is senior researcher and coordinator for LIRNE.NET. Current research areas focus on ICT for development, regulatory information practices, e-government; and civil society participation in policy and regulatory processes. Mahan has worked in the field of regulation and policy research during the past 15 years, including in Australia at the Centre for International Research on Communication and Information Technologies – CIRCIT; in Canada at the Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology – CPROST, Simon Fraser University; and in the Netherlands in the Economics of Infrastructures programme, Delft University of Technology. She also consults regularly on ICT for development and e-governance projects for UNDP (Europe and the CIS).
In addition to academic research, Mahan is the book review editor for the Southern Africa Journal of Information and Communication; former book review editor for Telecommunications Policy; editor and reviewer for the Netherlands Institute of International Relations (Clingendael) International Energy Programme; has developed training materials and presentation materials including multi-media training kits for the Association of Progressive Communications (APC); and as a founding member of LIRNE.NET, she works to ensure wide dissemination of the network’s research products and works with the other project leaders to coordinate research practices across the regional centres.
