DETROIT ? An FBI official involved in counter-terrorism will give the opening address at a workshop on border security hosted by Wayne State University?s Institute for Information Technology and Culture.
Donald Duyn, deputy assistant director for the FBI?s counter terrorism unit, will give the opening address, Crossings: Applying Research Findings to Border Security Cooperation. The workshop is March 14 at the McGregor Memorial Conference Center on the campus at Wayne State. The workshop is free and open to the public. The reception starts at 7 p.m. It is hosted by the Institute for Information Technology and Culture.
Van Duyn?s talk will kick off the IITC?s MAJOR (Multiple Agency and Jurisdictions Organized Response) project, and he will discuss how research findings on disaster response can be used to improve security along the US-Canadian border. The IITC Crossings workshop is sponsored by the Canadian Embassy and the National Science Foundation.
At the Crossings workshop, 40 disaster experts, including government officials, practitioners and academics, will discuss how disaster response can be improved through coordination between the two nations.
IITC is a multidisciplinary group of medical and organizational anthropologists, psychologists, engineers, nurses, social workers, computer scientists and doctors, collaborating to understand the cultural aspects of technology use.
For further information on the Crossings workshop, please contact Director Allen Batteau at (313) 874-7010, or [email protected]
