The Author: Neil Anderson is the Pearl Logan Chair in Rural Education at the Cairns campus of James Cook University in Australia. His research has focused on equity issues arising from the effective use of information communication technologies. His research and publications span the areas of gender and ICT, rural education, pedagogy, e-learning, ICT use in developing countries, and ICT use for people with disabilities. Professor Anderson is a foundation member of CAMOT (China Association for the Management of Technology) and is the Director of SiMERR QLD, the state centre for the National Centre of Mathematics, Science and ICT research for regional and rural Australia.