Published 13 November 2006
Securing U.S. Public Funds for Educational Technology Research and Development:
An Interview with Larry Grossman of the Digital Promise Project
Lawrence
K. (Larry) Grossman is co-chair of the Digital Promise Project with
former FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow of "TV is a vast wasteland" fame.
Mr. Grossman is former president of NBC News and PBS. Before that he
founded an advertising agency to serve media and not-for-profit public
service clients and was vice president of advertising at NBC. After
leaving NBC News, Mr. Grossman held the Frank Stanton First Amendment
Chair at the Kennedy School of Government, and was senior fellow and
visiting scholar at Columbia University. He serves on the boards of
various educational, science, public broadcasting, and health
organizations and is author of The Electronic Republic: Reshaping Democracy in the Information Age.
IMS
Global Learning Consortium recently talked with Mr. Grossman about
Digital Promise and the need for federal legislation to support
research and development of advanced information technologies to serve
the public interest, particularly in education, skills training, and
lifelong learning and to help bring museums and libraries and the
nation's public institutions into the digital age.
