{"287991":{"#nid":"287991","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Best  Begins Inaugaral Position at the CACM","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/bio\/best\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMichael L. Best\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in \u003Cstrong\u003EThe Sam Nunn School of International Affairs\u003C\/strong\u003E, is the new and inuagural global computing editor for the Communications for the Association for Computing Machinery (CACM). His first column appears in the April issue and is entitled \u0022\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cacm.acm.org\/magazines\/2014\/4\/173216-thinking-outside-the-continent\/fulltext\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EThinking Outside the Continent.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0022 It addresses computing innovation and the global south, specifically the case of social media tracking centers as an example of Nigerian Digital Innovation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMichael Best is associate professor of the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology where he directs the Technologies and International Development Lab. He is co-founder and Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the widely read journal, Information Technologies and International Development.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/bio\/best\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMichael L. Best\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in \u003Cstrong\u003EThe Sam Nunn School of International Affairs\u003C\/strong\u003E, is the new and inuagural global computing editor for the Communications for the Association for Computing Machinery (CACM).\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Michael L. Best, associate professor in The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, is the new and inuagural global computing editor for the Communications for the Association for Computing Machinery (CACM)."}],"uid":"27889","created_gmt":"2014-04-02 16:09:06","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:11","author":"Beth Godfrey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-04-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-04-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"240011":{"id":"240011","type":"image","title":"Michael Best","body":null,"created":"1449243670","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:41:10","changed":"1475894914","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:34","alt":"Michael Best","file":{"fid":"197998","name":"mike_best.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mike_best.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mike_best.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":49291,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/mike_best.jpg?itok=6CYDlBjU"}}},"media_ids":["240011"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/cacm.acm.org\/magazines\/2014\/4\/173216-thinking-outside-the-continent\/fulltext","title":"Thinking Outside the Continent"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"90681","name":"CACM"},{"id":"208","name":"computing"},{"id":"90691","name":"global computing"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}