{"51717":{"#nid":"51717","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Goodman Addresses Cyber Security In Africa","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EATLANTA (August 2, 2006)--\u003C\/strong\u003EDr. Seymour (Sy) Goodman organized and spoke at \u0022Cyber Security in Africa,\u0022 the first session of its kind during the U.S. government\u0027s African Center for Strategic Studies Senior Leadership Seminar. The Center\u0027s annual flagship program, held this year in Atlanta on June 11-23, gathered over 100 senior-level military and government representatives from more than 45 African states, as well as participants from Europe and the United States. Attendees\u00a0pursued cooperative and collaborative approaches to the security challenges facing the African continent.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGoodman is a professor of computing and international affairs jointly at the College of Computing and the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech. He also serves as Co-Director of both the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) and the Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy (CISTP). The two-week seminar hosted Goodman\u0027s \u0022Cyber Security in Africa\u0022 session on June 19. CNN covered the session and aired an interview with Goodman on\u00a0June 24.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information about the Senior Leadership Seminar, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.africacenter.org\/Dev2Go.web?Anchor=programs_sls06\u0026amp;rnd=16512\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003Cbr \/\u003EFor more information about Professor Sy Goodman, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/component\/option,com_peopledb\/task,view\/contact_id,285746060\/Itemid,238\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Sy Goodman led\u00a0a \u0022first of its kind\u0022 session during the U.S. government\u0027s African Center for Strategic Studies Annual Senior Leadership Seminar\u00a0in Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:46:54","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:12","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-08-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-08-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}