Dick Sclove is founder and former executive director of The Loka Institute in Amherst, Massachusetts.  Sclove is the author of many articles, as well as a well-regarded book, Democracy and Technology (1995).  He is also the founder of FASTnet (the Federation of Activists on Science and Technology Network).  Sclove holds a Bachelor's degree in environmental studies from Hampshire College as well as an M. S. in nuclear engineering and a Ph.D. in political science, both from MIT.  He did a postdoctoral fellowship in economics at the University of California at Berkeley and has held visiting professorships at Clark University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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The Loka Institute web site contains information about the Institute, its projects and publications.  Also to be found there are a series of "Loka Alerts" promoting the Institute's ideas, many of which have been reposted widely on the Internet.

Interview with Richard Sclove in CIO Magazine, October 1, 2000.

Review of Democracy and Technology, by independent journalist and radio producer Scott London.

Interview with Sclove on Hotwired, September 6, 1996 (in Real Audio; about 13 minutes).

Democratizing Post-Cold War Science Policy, editorial from Science magazine by Sclove, February 27, 1998; posted on Dave Farber's "Interesting People" list.

"For Architects of the Info-Highway, Some Lessons From the Concrete Interstate," essay by Sclove and Jeffrey Scheuer (no date).

"Democratizing Science:  Science shops are tackling research for and with communities," by Janet Raloff, Science News Online, November 7, 1998 -- discusses some of  Sclove's ideas and quotes him.

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