DOpartners

DO Core Team

DigitalOcean is being built collaboratively by the New Media Research Institute and OuThink Media, Inc. http://www.outhink.com/ in cooperation with an interdisciplinary UC Santa Barbara team (at the Marine Science Institute http://www.msi.ucsb.edu/, the Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television, and New Media http://www.cftnm.ucsb.edu/, and the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management http://www.bren.ucsb.edu/)

DigitalOcean Panel at the 5th Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands, UNESCO, Paris

The DigitalOcean Consortium will be presenting a panel at the 5th Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands: Ensuring Survival, Preserving Life, and Improving Governance, May 3-7, 2010, at UNESCO in Paris.

This is a major opportunity to showcase how the DigitalOcean software and team can help improve governance by building rapid, effective communication fabrics between scientists and ocean stakeholders and planners.

Key Partner Organizations (as of May 1, 2009)

Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
http://www.pgafoundations.com/default.aspx
The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation envisions building healthy communities includes nurturing the arts, engaging children in learning, addressing the needs of vulnerable populations, and advancing scientific/technological discovery through grantmaking.

Vulcan
http://vulcan.com/TemplateHome.aspx?contentId=1

Advisory Committee Members

Advisory Committee Members (Provisional)
Ahrash Bissell, Creative Commons/ccLearn
Ahrash Bissell is the Executive Director of ccLearn, the education division of Creative Commons, which focuses on removing the legal, technical, and cultural barriers to open education, digital scholarship, and the growth of the global commons. Prior to his current position, Ahrash was at Duke University, where he was Assistant Director of the Academic Resource Center and a Research Associate in Biology.

Ken Casey, NOAA

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