[Open Research projects: Community ICT Access Initiatives]

Tracey Naughton is a communication for development consultant who has extensive experience in local, regional and global ICTs for development initiatives. Amongst other things, her expertise is in the fields of research, project development and implementation, training and communications, particularly at the local level.

Her most recent full-time position was as Regional Broadcasting and ICTs Programme Manager at the Media Institute of Southern Africa, based in Windhoek. As a freelance consultant she more recently developed ICT content and message design targeted at Mongolian herder boys and was the Southern African Partnership Manager for the African intervention at the United Nations World Summit on Information Society (WSIS).

Since 2003 Tracey has been the Chairperson of the UN WSIS Media caucus. She is also the current Chair of the WSIS Civil Society Bureau.

Her extensive work experience has led her to work in countries and regions as diverse as Australia, the 14 Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries, Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, and Mongolia.

Tracey brings an important global focus to research projects, while her experience in outcomes based research, as well as capacity development design, is instrumental in developing a community-orientated analysis of research findings.

Tracey has a Masters Certificate in Advanced Social Research as well as a Masters of Arts in Communication from Melbourne University.