Gail H. Watt
Norrbyggeby  1429
S-762 96 Rånäs, Sweden
Home tel. +46 (0) 175 651 55
E-mail: watt.gail@gmail.com

FAMILY:

• Born 20 January 1945, Warren, PA. USA.
• Married to Jane (nee) Torsell, 28 December 1968, Bromma, Sweden.
• One child, Kajsa, born 1970, St. Paul, MN. USA, residing since 1990 in Wilmington, DE, USA with my 3 grand-children and son-in-law.
• Resident of Sweden since 1972,  in Sollentuna  1973-98, and now in Norrbyggeby since 1998.

Education:

• PhD level studies, Informatics, Örebro Universitet , 2004-2006
• Many short courses and conferences: immigrant questions, ICT, and administrative topics throughout a 26 year employment with the City of Stockholm.
• Swedish Computer Association ICT Management Course, 1987.
• One year full time study -PC specialist course, City of Stockholms Personnel Training Center 1986.
• PhD. candidate University of Minnesota, USA, Business Administration. Course work post MSc. 1967-71
• Diplom -Institute for English Speaking Students, Stockholms Universitet, 1965
• B.A. Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., 1966. Majors: Economics and Political Science
• Primary and secondary schools in Warren, PA. USA.

ICT Profile/Employment:

In Sweden

• I do market research and PC systems edemocracy consulting in my own company, Watt Data HB. (Am a consultant and a Gold Key Service contractor to American Embassy/ US Department of Commerce. Am one of three list owners for Global eRiders discussion list. Have been a writer/contributor for the Ideal Government Project and a number of other e-government e-democracy e-inclusion projects and experiments.
• 2004 – present  D2D study group  (A group of researchers and experts themselves present a number of proposals for a democracy where the citizenry has a larger influence than is the case today.)
• 2004 -2006 Research Associate – PhD level studies, Örebro University. Department of Informatics.  (Worked primarily with liason to several USA-UK universities and ICT projects at several municipalities in Sweden.)
• 01/99- 05/2003 Team member in the Vinnova financed Kista e-panel/e-democracy project with Kista e-parliament. (My primary tasks were liaison with consulting firms, financial management, moderating a discussion and voting forum, producing technical requirement/project management and other documentation, management of technician team. Some hands-on management of a server park for sub projects.)
• 01/99- 05/2003 Team member in the European Union financed projects CyberVote and Avanti . (My primary tasks were liaison with consulting firms, financial management, producing technical requirement/project management and other documentation, representing the team at several international partner meetings. Some hands-on management of a web server and SQL server.)
• 01/97 – 05/2003 ICT specialist - Internet/Intranet strategies, database development for the City of Stockholm, Kista Borough. (Assisting the ICT manager with technical specification writing, some hands-on server park management, liaison with employed and consulting technicians, designing document flow procedures. Monitoring internationally ICT application breakthroughs.  Coordination with Stockholm Challenge Award Program.)
• 1988 ICT instructor- Department of Political Science, University of Stockholm. (Undergraduate basic course teaching)
• 10/85 - 12/96 ICT specialist, project manager, and instructor at City of Stockholm Personnel Policy Division, City Hall. Manager of Huså Conference and Vacation Village in Jämtland, Sweden, owned and operated by the City of Stockholm as an employee benefit and international meeting place for official City of Stockholm visitors. (Constructed the City of Stockholm’s first web site in 1986 for Netscape 1.0 with the one of the first versions of HTML and wrote a booking system on one of the first relational database systems -DataFlex.)
• 04/78 - 10/85 Secretary, City of Stockholm's Immigrant Board. (In addition to administering grants to immigrant organisations, actively inspired the use of ITC for a variety of administrative tasks and acted as the agency’s liaison to the City’s central main frame systems.)
• 08/74 - 10/77 Manager, People to People-Sweden, Eurocentre-Sweden, Center for Cross Cultural Communication-Sweden.
• 01/74 - 06/86 Test administrator for Educational Testing Service. Princeton,N.J., American College Testing Program, Iowa City, Iowa, American Board of Medical Examiners, Philadelphia, The Psychology Corporation, NYC.
• 08/72 - 06/74 Consultant to Swedish International Development Authority- SIDA, English testing, administration, and research tasks.

 At the University of Minnesota

·         1967-72  ICT coordinator- Sr. Student Personnel Officer - Office of Adviser to Foreign Students. (Instituted a mark-sense card system for logging student and faculty interviews and a punch-card based Foreign National Directory publication.  Liaison with University’s central CDC 3200 Main Frame Center.)

COMMUNITY PUBLIC SERVICE ACTIVITIES:

•         2007-now -adviser to a newly started e-democracy project “FolketsParlament”

•        2006-now – elected Member of the Municipal Council and the Secondary School Board in Norrtälje Municipality

•          2005-now - Board of Directors - Culture Net - Sweden

•          2000-now - member of Norrtälje Municipality moderate political party

•          2000-now - member of Seniornet-Sweden

•          1995-1998 Board of Directors - Sollentuna Service & Consultant Agency

•          1991-1995 Board of Directors - Sollentuna Energy Company Inc

•          1990-now  Board of Directors - Health Care Association Team Andy

•          1988-1998 Board of Directors and treasurer for Sollentuna Mens Glee Club

•          1988 Elected to Sollentuna City Council

•          1988  Founding member of Liberal Immigrant Association

•          1986-89 President, National Association of Immigrant Organisations

•          1985-90 Member of Institute for Arabic-speaking Family Issues

•          1982-86 Member of SID, Special Immigrant Group for Discrimination Issues

•          1982-86 Treasurer i Sollentuna Music School's Parent-Student Association

•          1981-94 Founding member of RFFR, National Association for Family Rights. Board of Directors and treasurer 1982 -94

•          1981-83 Board of Directors - Sollentuna Cultural Board

•          1978-98 Member of Folkpartiet (Liberal Party)

•          1975-77 Treasurer in Stegen Housing Association

•          1972-now Member of English Speaking Community Club

•          1972-75 Scoutleader for Täby YMCA

Presence on the Internet:

general presence via Google search

involvement in e-democracy via Google search

eDemocracy in Sweden

PUBLICATIONS:

• Income-Expenditure Survey of New American and Foreign Graduate Students. 1968, 136 pages offset Masters Thesis.
• Follow-up Research Evaluation Report on the 1967 Minnesota Orientation Center, 110 pages stencil with oral presentation at Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Washington, D.C.
• Issues in International Education - a background compendium prepared for Senator Walter F. Mondale, 1970.
• Various speech drafts for state and national politicians including former Vice President, then Senator Walter F. Mondale, 1968-72.
• Nordic Language Test Development Progress Reports. 1972-74. SIDA.
• The Admission and Placement of Students from the Nordic Countries, editor Cliff Sjogren, University of Michigan, a report published by the National Association for Foreign Student Affairs and the National Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers. 1978.

Updated: 15 September 2007  by Gail Watt