Jan Servaes is Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Media and Communication at the City University of Hong Kong, UNESCO Chair in Communication for Sustainable Social Change at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Editor-in-Chief of ‘Telematics and Informatics: An international journal on telecommunications and internet technology’ (Elsevier), Editor of the Southbound Book Series ‘Communication for Development and Social Change’, and Editor of the Lexington Book Series ‘Communication, Globalization and Cultural Identity’. He chaired the Scientific Committee for the World Congress on Communication for Development (Rome, 25-27 October 2006), organized by the Wor...