James Werle
James Werle serves as the Executive Director of the Internet2 Community Anchor Program which brings together Internet2 member institutions and innovators from public libraries, K-12 schools, colleges and universities, museums and science centers to extend advanced broadband-enabled technologies, applications, middleware, and content to all community anchor institutions, as quickly and connectedly as possible. James began his career as a Peace Corps Volunteer teaching physics and building a library and science lab in the small Central African nation of Malawi. He also worked at the University of Washington for 8 years where he helped launch the Washington Digital Learning Commons, a statewide K-12 online learning consortium, and led numerous educational partnership and learning technology efforts. He holds a BA in science education and a Masters Degree in Library and Information Science from the Ischool at the University of Washington. James was the principle author of the following two articles published by Information Today: Internet2 and School Libraries: The Time is Now (More than Ever) Multimedia & Internet@Schools (Sept-Oct 2009): 16(5) Internet2 and libraries: (Cover story). Computers in Libraries (Nov-Dec 2007): 6(7)
