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Department of Political Science
Acadia University
Phone: 585 1451
Fax: 585 1070
Email: Cynthia.alexander@acadiau.ca
Cynthia Alexander is an Associate Professor of Political
Science at Acadia University. She has been investigating
the adoption of computer technologies by Canadian governments
since the mid-eighties when she received her Ph.D. at
Queen’s University in Kingston. In her assessment
of the evolution of e-government and e-governance in
Canada, she has been paying particular attention to
whether and how new media technologies can serve to
meet the policy needs and interests of marginalized
communities of interests. She has been working in
partnership with several First Nations communities
in Canada to develop a culturally-relevant First Nations
ICT strategic model. Alexander continues to investigate
how network technologies can support multi-stakeholder
consensus-building initiatives, a field of interest
drawn from her first book, A Stake in the Future:
Redefining the Canadian Mineral Industry (UBC, 1997),
co-authored with Dr. Mary Louise McAllister. Alexander
co-edited Digital Democracy: Policy and Politics in
the Wired World with Dr. Leslie Pal (Oxford, 1998).
She is completing two books, The Digital Leviathan
and The Culture Quotient: Administrative and Policy
Processes in the Government of Nunavut, co-authored
with Marcel Fortier.
She is a co-investigator on a small research team,
funded by the SSHRC INE Research Alliance, that is
assessing whether and how 'youth at risk' in Nova
Scotia and Nunavut are being given opportunities to
gain the new literacy skills they need to participate
in the Knowledge-based Economy and Society. In March
2004, she received a SSHRC Northern Research Grant
to fund the Nunavut Policy Symposium.
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