Director
Open Spectrum Foundation
Robert Horvitz is Director of the Open Spectrum Foundation (www.openspectrum.info), a not-for-profit policy research and advocacy project registered in Amsterdam. In the mid-1980s he was Government Liaison and then Executive Secretary of the Association of North American Radio Clubs.
He attended the 1987 World Administrative Radio Conference for High Frequency Broadcasting as an NGO observer. His "Local Radio Handbook" - published by Internews in 1991 - has been translated into 6 languages.
From 1992 to 1995 he was the Soros Foundations' radio specialist for Eastern Europe and Central Asia; from 1995 to 1997 he was coordinator of their Internet Programme. He has lived in Prague since 1991.
