Dr. Michael L. Best is Professor with the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, where he directs the Technologies and International Development Lab and the Center for Computing and Society. He was Director of Research at Georgia Tech – Shenzhen, the Institute’s campus in China, and was founding director of the United Nations University Institute on Computing and Society (UNU-CS) in Macau SAR, China. He holds a Ph.D. from MIT and has served as director of Media Lab Asia in India and head of the eDevelopment group at the MIT Media Lab.