The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Directed a project working with a global law firm in collaboration with Holland+Knight and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) to determine the feasibility of implementing a national State Education Agency (SEA) video teleconferencing network to facilitate inter-state collaboration in educational policy and sharing of best practices. Project activities included evaluating current technology used by CCSSO to facilitate online collaboration, developing a vision of an ideal collaboration technological platform, distributing and analyzing an online survey of the fifty SEAs to determine their existing and planned technical capacity for online collaboration, and performing a gap analysis to bring SEA technology to the envisioned platform.