"Cyberterrorism: Regional and Local Response" is a joint collaboration between the Interactive Media Laboratory (IML) at Dartmouth College and The Fred Friendly Seminars, under the auspices of the Program on Counterterrorism Preparedness of the Institute for Security Technology Studies (ISTS), also at Dartmouth College.

The Socratic Dialogue format was developed and refined by Mr. Fred Friendly, first under the auspices of the Ford Foundation and then as a program of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Using a hypothetical case history and a skilled moderator, the Seminars compel panelists to decide how to act in complicated situations where the right choices are not clear. As panelists wrestle with the hypothetical, a tense and spontaneous drama is created that illuminates complex questions in stimulating and entertaining ways. The Seminars have proven uniquely effective in exploring knotty ethical, legal and public policy issues and in creating the basis for panelists to "talk to each other, rather than shout past each other." Fred Friendly died on March 3, 1998, but the Socratic series continue to carry on his work. Mrs. Ruth Friendly serves as senior editorial advisor.

"Cyberterrorism: Regional and Local Response" was shot in front of a live audience at Atlantic Video Studios, Washington DC.

Production Software (Socratic Dialogue):
Online Editing: Media100
Audio Post-Production: Digidesign ProTools
Graphics: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and AfterEffects

Dialogue footage was compressed with Real codec (on MediaCleaner 4.02), using the following settings: