Staff JOHN M. EGER | ROGER CAVES |Marco Walshok   JOHN M. EGER: Chairman of the Institute jeger@mail.sdsu.edu John M. Eger holder of the prestigious Lionel Van Deerlin Endowed Chair of Communications and Public Policy at San Diego State University, is President of the World Foundation for Smart Communities. He is also the Founding Director of the SDSU International Center for Communications which established the Japan-U.S. Telecommunications Research Institute with offices in Tokyo, New York and San Diego; and the California Institute for SmartCommunities™, a million dollar educational program to help communities statewide understand the importance of information technology as a catalyst for transforming life and work in the 21st Century. Earlier, Mr. Eger headed CBS Broadcast International which he established, and was Senior Vice President of the CBS Broadcast Group. From 1971-1973, he was legal assistant to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, and from 1974-1976 served as Telecommunications Advisor to Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford and Director of the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy (OTP). Earlier in his career, Mr. Eger served as a data communications specialist and design director of information systems for the Bell System. Mr. Eger currently serves as Chairman of the Board of the San Diego Data Processing Corporation; Chairman of San Diego Mayor Susan Golding's City of the Future Advisory Committee; and Chairman of Governor Wilson's newly established California Commission on Information Technology. In August, 1997, Mr. Eger assumed the position of President and CEO of the World Foundation for Smart Communities, a 501(c)(3) educational organization, designed to help communities worldwide as they struggle to get on the global information highway. DR. ROGER CAVES: Program Staff rcaves@mail.sdsu.edu Roger Caves is Director of Research for the California Institute for SmartCommunitiesTM located at San Diego State University and also Director of Research for the World Foundation for Smart Communities based in La Jolla, California. He is currently helping administer a two year contract from the California Department of Transportation program designed to promote the concept of Smart Communities and to assist communities in their transformation to a Smart Community. Dr. Caves is also Professor and Coordinator of the Graduate City Planning Program, Coordinator of the Undergraduate Urban Studies Program, and Co-Director of the Institute for Public and Urban Affairs at San Diego State University. He received his Master's Degree in Urban Affairs from Old Dominion University and his Ph.D in Urban Affairs and Public Policy from the University of Delaware in 1982. Professor Caves' has published numerous articles and reports on land use planning and public policy related topics and has delivered numerous presentations and workshops in the United States and in such countries as Canada, France, Brazil, Israel, Germany, Spain, Portugal, England, Slovakia, Turkey, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia on planning and public policy related issues. He has written Land Use Planning: The Ballot Box Revolution (Sage Publications, 1992) and edited Exploring Urban America: An Introductory Reader (Sage Publications, 1995). He also serves on the International Editorial Board of Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning and Chair of the American Planning Association's Housing and Human Services Division. His teaching and research interests include the use of information technology in government, public policy, planning implementation, and citizen participation.