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The California Community Technology Policy Group (CCTPG) includes representatives from diverse community-based and statewide organizations located throughout California. CCTPG's goal is to advocate for policies that assure underserved communities reap the economic, educational, health, and civic benefits offered by computers, the Internet, and new digital innovations. CCTPG has helped shaped several pieces of legislation in California that support community technology, libraries, and universal service programs.

In addition to leading CCTPG, Chabrán has also served as the Director of the Communities for Virtual Research (CVR), Assistant Director of the Ernesto Galarza Applied Research Center, and Distinguished Librarian at the University of California, Riverside where he oversaw the UCR Community Digital Initiative (CDI), a community technology center selected for a California Technology and Innovation Award. He is contributing to the Latino Education Task Force, which is part of Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) Gigabit or Bust Initiative.

At the national level, Chabrán served on the Project Action Committee of the National Science Foundation's Advanced Networking Project for Minority Serving Institutions, which assisted these institutions to develop their campus infrastructure and national connections to become full participants in the emerging Internet-based information age. He was a member of the American Library Association's Office of Information Technology Policy Telecommunications Subcommittee. He also served as Co-Chair of REFORMA, the National Association to Promote Library Service to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking Information Technology Committee that produced REFORMA's Information Technology Agenda. In 2000, he contributed to the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universitites' (HACU) testimony to the Web-based Education Commission that was established by Congress to develop specific policy recommendations for maximizing the educational promise of the Internet.

Chabrán has also worked in the area of Latino librarianship for over 25 years. He served as the Coordinator of the Chicano Studies Library, now part of the Ethnic Studies Library at UC Berkeley from 1975-1979, and as the Coordinator of the Chicano Studies Research Library at UCLA from 1979-1995. Mr. Chabrán is a founder of the Chicano Database and Chicano/Latino Net (CLNet), a Latino Internet portal. His publications include co-editing Biblio-Politica: Chicano perspectives on library service in the United States (1984) and the Latino Encyclopedia (1996). He co-authored Cyber Access in the Inland Empire, which documents unequal patterns of computer ownership and Internet access. His recent work includes "Immigrants, Global Digital Economies, Cyber Segmentation, & Emergent Information Services," which appeared in Immigrant Politics and the Public Library (Greenwood Press, 2001) and “Place Matters, Journeys through Global and Local Spaces” co-authored with Romelia Salinas in Technological Visions: The Hopes and Fears that Shape New Technologies (Temple University Press, 2004).

Chabrán has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, UCLA, the University of La Verne, Pitzer College, and the University of Arizona. He has received numerous recognitions for his work, including being named one of America's most influential Latinos by Hispanic Business and Scholar of the Year, the life time achievement award of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies.

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