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March 2007

PROVO, Utah — Mar. 12, 2007 — The Rollins Center for eBusiness and the CP80 Foundation are bringing some of Utah’s business leaders to the BYU campus Friday, 16 March, for its semiannual eBusiness Day.

Titled Technology Responsibility and Ethics, this semester’s eBusiness Day focuses on the risks and opportunities inherent in technology. The event begins at 9 a.m. and will be held in 151 TNRB. Space is limited. Registration is available online at ebusiness.byu.edu/trec.

“We live in an era of unprecedented access to and reliance upon technology,” says Stephen Liddle. Director of the Rollins Center for eBusiness. “This event gives people a chance to learn about the ripple effects of e-business, risk management in using technology, and how they can become personally involved in these fields.”

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As a member of the advisory board, Paul Allen is a familiar face at the Rollins Center for eBusiness. And readers of Connect, a Utah business magazine, find him and his contributions to Utah business equally recognizable.

Allen was recently named one of Utah’s Top Twenty-five People Best Driving Business in 2006. The reader’s choice award was announced in the December 2006 issue.

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For Clint Rogers, the most unnerving part of his new position as visiting research associate with the Rollins Center for eBusiness isn’t his responsibilities—it’s his title.

“It’s still weird being called ‘Dr. Rogers,’” he jokes.

A recent doctoral candidate of BYU’s Instructional Psychology and Technology Department, Rogers dreamed of becoming a doctor and an inventor as a child. His greatest ambition was to create a way for people to increase their learning capacity.

“I guess I’ve always been a little dissatisfied with the way formal education usually works,” he says. “Culturally, we bring so many assumptions that we don’t even see. We judge what knowledge is, and what’s worth learning, but not everyone is the same.”

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