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Talk Will Focus on New Orleans' Reconstruction - November 07, 2007
GREAT BARRINGTON - Bard College at Simon's Rock will host a discussion by alumnus Douglas Ahlers on reconstruction efforts in New Orleans. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held Friday, Nov. 9, 6:15 to 7:30, in the Clark Auditorium of the Fisher Science and Academic Center.
Ahlers, an alumnus of Simon's Rock, is a fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
As a resident and business owner in New Orleans, he has also been in the forefront of the efforts to restore vitality to that city, and in his role at Harvard, he has been instrumental in applying the resources of the university to the redevelopment needs of New Orleans.
After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, he was appointed to the mayor’s Bring New Orleans Back Commission's Economic Development Committee. He also led a team of Harvard Business School students to help the commission draft the economic recovery plan for the city. Soon after Katrina, Ahlers also launched the Neighborhood Empowerment Initiative. The initiative involves volunteer students, faculty and staff of the graduate schools of government, business, education, law and design at Harvard.
Ahlers is also a fellow at the National Democratic Institute and, in that capacity, has served as an election monitor in Ukraine, Palestine and Egypt. He has studied the use of technology by many international groups, including extremist organizations, hate groups, and neo-Nazis, as well as dissident and opposition groups in North Korea and China. His work is based on the concept of international dialogue and cooperation as a means of establishing international security and stability.
One of the pioneers of e-commerce, Ahlers has been involved in the development and deployment of online services since the early 1980s. He helped design and build the first online shopping sites and the first online travel site, built the first commercial Web site on the Internet and created the first banner ad to appear on the Internet.
Ahlers is the co-founder of Modem Media Inc., where he created comprehensive Internet strategies for Fortune 500 companies. Modem Media subsidiary Poppe Tyson created the first Web site for the White House and also created the spin-off company DoubleClick. Ahlers has also started two venture capital firms in the technology arena, funding companies in the areas of online radio, database marketing and data mining.
A spring 2005 fellow at the Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy, he examined the impact of the Internet on the way people get their news information. Ahlers remains an active member of the Simon's Rock board of overseers and an active alumnus. In May 2006, he addressed the graduating class, discussing the situation in New Orleans and urging students to pitch in and help where they are needed. |
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