Shawn Walker is a consultant, facilitator and trainer working with organizations, universities and governmental agencies on designing server programming, computer networking, system administration, website development, database design, and strategic technology planning. A system administrator for a local Internet Provider at the age of fourteen (1994) he has worked as a technology development planner, server designer and administrator, workshop facilitator and trainer in digital media with Media Working Group since 1998. He is currently a doctoral student at The Information School at the University of Washington. His research focuses on digital government, transparency, citizen participation, the digital divide, telecommunications policy, and viral political media.