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06/23/2008: "Local Man To Be White House Guest"

Mark Anderson, CEO of Friday Harbor-headquartered Strategic News Service, has been in the news lately with his Project Inkwell, and now he will be a guest of the White House, the State Department and the World Bank this week, as part of an ongoing Australian / American Leadership Dialog.

Anderson recently selected Australia as the country with the greatest promise of the decade. His most recent Future in Review Conference included a live link from this country's most advanced supercomputing/supervisualization lab, CalIT2 at UCSD (University of California at San Diego)

Delegation hosts in Washington will include Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte, Ambassador Dennis Richardson, Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard, and World Bank President Robert Zoellick.

Discussion subjects will include the buildout of a global supercomputer network linked by optical fiber, the global economy, and foreign policy issues.

(the "FiRe Lab") and just-completed matching facilities at Melbourne, Australia, courtesy of SNS member and CalIT2 Director Larry Smarr. Smarr, a longtime member of SNS, will be visiting Anderson in August on San Juan Island.