About: Eric Kansa is currently Executive Director of the Information and Service Design Program at UC Berkeley's School of information. He's currently researching how information technologies mediate the experience of cultural heritage and place in tourism. He has a background in anthropology, archaeology, and in open access data sharing for the field sciences.

Before coming to UC Berkeley, he was Executive Director of the Alexandria Archive Institute, and led development of Open Context, an online system for sharing collections and field research in archaeology and natural history. This follows a position on the faculty of Harvard University, where he served as Lecturer and Undergraduate Tutor for the Department of Anthropology.