Karen Banks
Karen Banks is a British computer networking pioneer who was inducted to the Internet Hall of Fame in 2013 as a "Global Connector".In the 1990s she maintained GnFido, a pioneering gateway run by non-profit ISP GreenNet, which used store and forward techniques to provide otherwise unavailable internet access for individuals and organisations across Africa, South Asia and Eastern Europe.GreenNet was a founder member of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), and Banks was one of the founders of its Women's Networking Support Programme (WNSP) in 1993 and its coordinator 1996-2004. At the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995 the WNSP provided web access and email for 10,000 delegates, many of whom had never seen a web page before. From 1998 to 2001 Banks coordinated APC's global Internet rights work in Europe, and she became network development manager in 2004. She is now APC's operations director.
In 2004 she was given the Anita Borg Award for Social Impact by the Anita Borg Institute, in recognition of "significant and sustained contributions in technology".
She is a board member of Privacy International.
On 16 November 2018 Banks was recognised with the Oxford Internet Institute Award for her lifetime achievements in using information and communication technologies for social change. Provided by Wikipedia
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Current Employment and Future Plans of High School Students. Eye on Evaluation. E&R Report by Banks, Karen
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The Effect of School Poverty Concentration in WCPSS. Research Watch. E&R Report by Banks, Karen
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What Research Says about Teenagers and Sleep. Research Watch. E&R Report by Banks, Karen
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Assessment's Conflicting Purposes, Conflicting Politics Impact on Local School Systems / by Banks, Karen E.
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Estimating the Impact of the New Promotion Intervention Policy. Eye on Evaluation. E&R Report / by Banks, Karen E.
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Diagnostic and Prescriptive Skills of Teachers and Related Specialists by Banks, Karen Vlahos
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Racial and Gender Gaps in Academic Achievement. Report Summary by Dulaney, Chuck
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Measurement Error. For Good Measure by Johnson, Stephen
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Gaps in Academic Achievement WCPSS Status, 2001-02 / by Baenen, Nancy
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Gaps in Academic Achievement WCPSS Status, 2000-01 / by Dulaney, Chuck
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