Ricardo+Gomez

=Ricardo Gomez= **Home page**: []
 * Your Country : Residence: USA; Citizenship: Canada; Heritage: Colombia**
 * Affiliation: University of Washington, Seattle, WA**
 * Contact:** rgomez@uw.edu

Ricardo Gomez is Assistant Professor at University of Washington's Information School. He specializes in the social impacts of communication technologies, especially in community development settings. He is also interested in qualitative research methods, and in group facilitation and process design. He seeks creative ways to communicate complex ideas and research results in everyday language. He has worked with private, public and non-profit sectors around the world, with a particular focus on Latin America and the Caribbean. Before joining the University of Washington he worked with Microsoft Community Affairs, and with the International Development Research Center in Canada. He holds an MA from Université du Québec à Montréal (1992) and a Ph.D. from Cornell University (1997).