He is also the Director of the University of Guelph's Don Snowden Program for Development Communication. His experience includes rural development initiatives involving participatory access to communication technologies such as video, community radio and print media. In recent years he has dedicated much of his time to advancing rural telecommunications for development in Canada and around the world, including rural telephone and rural Internet project work and research in countries such as Egypt, the Philippines, Haiti, Ghana, Senegal, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mexico and Chile.