Martha Garcia-Murillo is an Associate Professor of Information Studies at Syracuse University. She has an M.S. in Economics and a Ph.D. in Political Economy and Public Policy from the University of Southern California. She worked at USC’s Center for Telecommunications Management where she was involved in developing industry-sponsored reports in telecommunications and cable. She also worked as a regulatory officer at the International Telecommunications Union in Geneva, Switzerland, where she wrote the working document for the negotiations among Central American countries for the harmonization of telecommunications regulation in the region. In 2003 Prof. García-Murillo was on sabbatical as a visiting scholar at the Internet and Telecommunications Convergence Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. García-Murillo specializes in regulation of information and communication technologies. Her areas of research include institutional economics and information economics, the impact of regulation on business behavior, factors that affect infrastructure deployment, regulation of telecommunications in Latin America, and the digital divide.