Project Staff

Steven Vedro
Reforging the Links Project Manager

Consultant

Steven Vedro is a consultant, lecturer and writer who has been at the interface of new telecommunications technology and public service for the last twenty years. While at the University of Wisconsin-Extension, he produced the nation's first television series on new consumer electronics -- The New Tech Times, which aired on over 200 PBS stations in 1983-84. He developed the nation's first statewide teletext service, and directed the Telecommunications Division's Communications Development Lab. Since 1991, as an independent consultant, he has focused on three strategic areas:

1. telecommunications public policy -- serving as consultant to six state commissions on telecommunications reform;
2. needs assessments, procurement negotiations and grant writing. -- assisting dozens of state agencies, university and technical college campuses; and
3. helping public broadcasters prepare for the age of digital television and streaming multimedia -- by direct consultative services and through his research and publications, most recently for Current Newspaper and for the info.p@ckets (http://www.cpb.org/library/infopackets/packet.home.html) web site at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Mr. Vedro's recent public broadcasting and university clients have included: