Steve Worona

Biography

Steve Worona is an independent speaker and consultant on Internet policy and law. Until July, 2011, he held the position of Senior Policy Director at EDUCAUSE, the professional association for IT leaders in higher education. He was the Founding Director of the EDUCAUSE/Cornell Institute for Computer Policy and Law and was the creator, producer, director, and host of "EDUCAUSE Live!", a Webinar series featuring conversations with leaders of information technology in higher education. During his 35-year career at Cornell University, Steve developed CUinfo (the first Campus-Wide Information System) and Dear Uncle Ezra (the first online counseling service). He taught courses in Cornell's Computer Science Department and Graduate School of Management, founded Cornell's Computer Policy and Law Program, and managed award-winning projects in electronic publishing, digital libraries, programming languages, and factory automation. He has lectured internationally on a wide range of topics, focusing on the impact of technology on our social and legal systems. At EDUCAUSE, he worked on a broad spectrum of campus and national IT policy issues, such as intellectual property, privacy, network neutrality, broadband initiatives, and the .EDU top-level Internet domain. He holds degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science from Cornell and hangs out on IM and twitter as SLWorona.

EDUCAUSE Publications

  • The Roads Ahead
    • Article
    • Author

    It's important to think about policy issues not only in isolation but also as an aggregation embodying synergy and contradiction.

  • On Making Sausage
    • Article
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    The problem of unauthorized Internet file-sharing has always been taken very seriously by U.S. higher education. Despite the inappropriate and misdirected requirements of the Higher Education Opportunity Act, there is every reason to expect higher education to continue its responsible approach to one of society's thorniest problems.

  • Naughty Bit
    • Article
    • Author

    Don't memorize this string of characters; if you do, the FBI may come knocking on your door to demand you undergo a lobotomy.

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EDUCAUSE Presentations

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EDUCAUSE Involvement

  • Campus Policy Advisory Group
    • Member: 2011 - 2012
  • HEISC Governance, Risk, and Compliance Working Group
    • Ex Officio: 2011 - 2015
  • MWRC Adjunct Committee
    • Member: 2010
  • Identity Management Task Force
    • Staff Liaison: 2006 - 2011
  • CALEA Tech Expert Group
    • Staff Liaison: 2006 - 2011
  • Community Group Leaders
    • Member: 1999 - 2001
  • Campus Cyberinfrastructure - Working Group
    • Staff Liaison: 2006 - 2011
  • Identity Management WG Steering Committee
    • Staff Liaison: 2006 - 2009
  • BPG Steering
    • Staff Liaison: 2005 - 2011
  • StateNets Security
    • Staff Liaison: 2005 - 2011
  • CALEA
    • Staff Liaison: 2005
  • BPG Members
    • Staff Liaison: 2005 - 2006
  • ResearchWare WG
    • Staff Liaison: 2005
  • Policy Conference Program Committee
    • Staff Liaison: 2003 - 2011
  • Broadband Policy Group
    • Staff Liaison: 2003 - 2006
  • Net@EDU Advisory Group
    • Staff Liaison: 2002 - 2009
  • PKI
    • Staff Liaison: 1999 - 2004
  • Network Award Committee
    • Member: 1995 - 1998
  • Privacy Paper Task Force
    • Member: 1995 - 1997