Leadership in the Digital Age

The "Leadership in the Digital Age" project is designed to enhance understanding and performance of new networked styles of forward-looking leadership in the evolution towards more knowledge-intensive communities and societies around the world. It is one of the first initiatives to examine systematically and in global perspective the new patterns of networked leadership now shaping the transition from industrial to knowledge societies. Directed by Prof. Ernest J. Wilson III, Senior Scholar, Center for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland, and supported by the Markle Foundation, the project draws on hundreds of interviews and other material from over a dozen nations to produce new research and writing on this under-examined but critical subject.

The project concentrates on an innovative style of cooperative information and communication technology (ICT) leadership that is emerging across the private, public, research and civil society sectors, which we call a ‘Quad’. We believe that enhanced ICT leadership capacities are directly relevant to any society, whether in the developing world or the developed. An important element of the project is the International Colloquium to be held July 14-15, 2003, in College Park, Maryland, where these and other issues will be discussed.

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