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Andy Carvin is author of learning.now (http://www.pbs.org/learningnow), a blog about education technology for PBS Online. He is the founding editor of the Digital Divide Network (http://www.digitaldivide.net), an online community of more than 10,000 activists, policymakers, business leaders and researchers in more than 140 countries working to find solutions to the digital divide.
Andy is the author of the pioneering online education resource EdWeb: Exploring Technology and School Reform (http://edwebproject.org), launched in 1994. Named by NetGuide magazine as "One of the Top 50 Places to Go Online," EdWeb was one of the first websites to advocate the use of the World Wide Web in education. Andy is the founder and moderator of WWWEDU, the Internet's oldest and largest email forum on the role of the Web in education, and DIGITALDIVIDE, the Internet's premiere discussion group for examining digital divide issues. He also served as creator and moderator of SEPT11INFO, one of the most successful online communities created in the hours following terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. Andy has been featured in numerous publications, including the New York Times, Harvard Educational Review, Education Week, Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Village Voice, Wired, San Jose Mercury News, The Industry Standard and the second edition of The Internet Unleashed, published by Sams/MacMillan. Before coming to the Benton Foundation, Andy served as New Media Program Officer for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, where he developed Internet-related grant programs for the public broadcasting community.
In December 2001, Andy was named by District Administration magazine as one of America's top 25 edtech advocates. Andy received similar honors from eSchoolNews in 1999 when they named him a member of its Impact 30 list of edtech leaders. He is a former member of the board of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), which advocates policies advancing the role of information technology in schools. From 1999 to 2001, he served on the Board of Directors for the Asia/Pacific Center for Justice and Peace, a consortium of NGOs that promotes democracy, freedom of speech and freedom of religion across Asia.
Andy holds a bachelor of science in rhetoric and a master of arts in telecommunications policy from Northwestern University, where he received the prestigious Annenberg/Washington graduate fellowship. While living in Illinois, he was co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Chicago-area arts weekly, Art+Performance. Andy has traveled extensively around the world and has written about his adventures in popular online travelogues. In January 1999, Andy premiered From Sideshow to Genocide: Stories of the Cambodian Holocaust (http://edwebproject.org/sideshow), a virtual history of the Khmer Rouge regime and collection of survivor accounts. More recently, Andy has been reporting on his travels through his popular blog, Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth (http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog). Andy is an avid amateur genealogist; his successful use of DNA testing to explore his family's lineage was profiled in a January 2001 cover story of US News and World Report (http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/010129/migration.htm). He recently completed co-producing the independent documentary Thai Boxing: A Fighting Chance, which has aired in more than 140 countries on the National Geographic Channel.
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 Museum-City of Gjirokastra
 Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg
Historic Centre of Vienna
 Belfries of Belgium and France
Historic Centre of Brugge
La Grand-Place, Brussels
 Angkor
 Historic District of Québec
 Old Havana and its Fortifications
 Historic Centre of Prague
 Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis
Islamic Cairo
Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur
 Historic Centre (Old Town) of Tallinn
 Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Former Abbey of Saint-Remi and Palace of Tau, Reims
Palace and Park of Versailles
Paris, Banks of the Seine
Strasbourg – Grande île
 Aachen Cathedral
Cologne Cathedral
Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin
Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin
Upper Middle Rhine Valley
 Asante Traditional Buildings
Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions
 Acropolis, Athens
Meteora
 Budapest, including the Banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter and Andrássy Avenue
 Þingvellir National Park
 Agra Fort
Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus)
Fatehpur Sikri
Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram
Humayun's Tomb, Delhi
Qutb Minar and its Monuments, Delhi
Taj Mahal
 Biblical Tels - Megiddo, Hazor, Beer Sheba
Masada
White City of Tel-Aviv -- the Modern Movement
 Venice and its Lagoon
 Petra
 Pre-Hispanic City of Chichen-Itza
 Kathmandu Valley
 City of Cuzco
Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu
 Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
Kremlin and Red Square, Moscow
 Cathedral, Alcázar and Archivo de Indias in Seville
Historic Centre of Cordoba
Palau de la Música Catalana and Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona
Works of Antoni Gaudí
 Royal Domain of Drottningholm
 Historic City of Ayutthaya and Associated Historic Towns
 Amphitheatre of El Jem
Kairouan
Medina of Tunis
Site of Carthage
 Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia
Historic Areas of Istanbul
Nemrut Dağ
 Old and New Towns of Edinburgh
Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites
Tower of London
Westminster Palace, Westminster Abbey and Saint Margaret's Church
 Everglades National Park
Independence Hall
Pueblo de Taos
Statue of Liberty
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