Dawn Nafus holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of Cambridge. She has published about seemingly 'open' communities of open source developers, the cultural forces behind governments' search for the next Silicon Valley, technology in higher education policy, and the social imaginations sparked by the sudden appearance of the internet in St Petersburg, Russia. Her regional specialism is Russia. She continues to be fascinated by the way that social transformation in Russia has become a twenty year long project without a known endpoint. Before coming to Intel she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Essex. Dawn has previously served on the steering committee at the National Centre for e-Social Science in the UK. Currently she is researching the ways that cultural perceptions of time affect technology adoption, using a mix of quantitative and qualitative approaches.