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David Stephenson is a leading homeland security, e-government (especially "transparent government"), and crisis management strategist and theorist. In addition to work for his own firm, he is a “subject matter expert” for the Homeland Security Institute, a participant in the Institute for the Future’s “Open Source Warfare” project, and an on-call expert for James Lee Witt Associates, a leading disaster management firm.

He created the “Pandemic Flu Survival Guide” as well as the “Terrorist Survival” suite of programs that put all the information necessary to prepare for and/or respond to a terrorist attack in an easy-to-use data base for handheld devices. He is about to begin a project to update these data bases and make them available for free to the general public through a major non-profit organization.

Stephenson is a frequent speaker on “outside-the-box” thinking at national and international homeland security conferences. He taught courses in security management and issues in technology and criminal justice in the Criminal Justice Department at UMass-Lowell, and before that, taught internet strategy in the continuing education program at Bentley College.

Stephenson’s expertise also includes organizational transformation through Web 2.0, corporate issue management, and new economic and environmental visions. His articles on homeland security, crisis management, new economic paradigms, and advanced technology have appeared in publications including Federal Computer Week, Government Computer News, Network World, The New York Times, Homeland Security Affairs journal, The Journal of Homeland Security, Tech Central Station, The Boston Globe, MassHighTech, Profit, Collaboration, and The Los Angeles Times. He previously wrote the “Future File” column for the MetroWest Daily News.