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Slabbert, impressed </div> <div> Maryland's Business and Economic Development Department so much they've </div> <div> awarded the author a grant to research and write about the subject further. They're </div> <div> hoping other government agencies and companies will join the project.</div> <bR> <div> Slabbert, who has joined TelCoa's advisory board, is currently researching comparisons </div> <div> between the telework policies of different states, looking at what high-density </div> <div> metropolitan areas can learn from innovative technology use in low-density regions, </div> <div> and vice- versa, and at how remote or rural regions can use teletechnology to integrate</div> <div> into the economies of metropolitan areas to mutual economic and environmental benefit.  </div> <div> Maryland has recognized him as a leading- edge writer, thinker and researcher on </div> <div> technology innovation issues.</div> <bR> <div> Slabbert has published in media as varied as Reader's Digest and the Harvard International </div> <div> Review, which recently chose one of his articles, about technology impacts on the US's </div> <div> global relations, to lead its worldwide web international affairs site. The article that triggered </div> <div> Slabbert's award, titled "Telecommunities", appeared in the magazine Urban Land, published </div> <div> by the international Urban Land Institute. It explained an innovative Maryland telecommunity </div> <div> project designed by Washington DC-based engineer-entrepreneur Dr. Jay Hellman.</div> <bR> <div> Hellman has been researching the workplace and urban design effects of computer technology </div> <div> for decades, starting at his alma mater, MIT.   </div> <bR> <div> Slabbert, he says, explains his research and concepts, which stress the regionally enhancing </div> <div> effects of telework, better than anyone else. "One reason is that he's an award-winning scholar, </div> <div> researcher and theorist in his own right," Hellman states. "He alsohas a gift for popularizing, </div> <div> educating, making com plex subjects crystal-clear, and synthesizing -- showing how different </div> <div> ideas and facts connect in surprising ways. For a writer on science and technology there's no </div> <div> more valuable talent."</div> <bR> <div> The Department of Homeland Security in Washington DC, which was featured in Slabbert's </div> <div> article as an agency capable of deriving significant benefit from telework, called the piece </div> <div> "an excellent introduction" to the concept of telecommunity. The Maryland award followed a </div> <div> meeting between Slabbert and Maryland's Business and Economic Development Secretary, </div> <div> Aris Melissaratos."The Secretary has a strong technology background" Slabbert comments. </div> <div> "He sees that new technology is only as effective as the wisdom with which it's used, and the </div> <div> clarity with which its opportunities are communicated and understood."</div> <bR> <div> Maryland has encouraged Slabbert to write a educational book explaining in non-technical </div> <div> language how telecommunities work and the economic development, environmental, </div> <div> security and infrastructural benefits they offer the general public, businesses, government </div> <div> agencies, towns and metropolitan authorities. Slabbert says that in whatever form he publishes </div> <div> his further work, he plans to show how technology infrastructures work best when there is a good </div> <div> balance between regional and national policies, and between public and private sector initiatives. </div> <div> He can be reached at nisla@maine.rr.com .</div> <bR> <div> Issued by The Hellman Company, inc.</div> <div> 1828 L Street, NW</div> <div> Washington, DC   20036</div> <div> tel:  202 841-1944   fax:  301 983-9556</div> <div> jay.hellman@alum.mit.edu</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>