icegov-2009

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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Deepak T. Bhatia : " e-Government around the World: Lessons Learned from Best Practices"
Sectoral and e-Government Applications Practice Lead, GICT Department, The World Bank, USA

Mr. Deepak Bhatia has more than 25 years of knowledge and experience managing information technology services. He has worked with several governments including India, Ethiopia, Mexico, Kenya, Kazakhstan, Bangladesh, Philippines, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and sister organizations including League of Arab States, Islamic Development Bank, DFID, UNECA, Asian Development Bank, African Development Bank, and Banc of Mexico. One of his key present engagements is as the co-Task team leader for e-Bharat, the World Bank project in support of the Government of India’s ambitious National e-Governance Plan (5.5 Billion $). Mr. Bhatia has held various senior positions in the World Bank, including until most recently as the Manager of the E-government Practice unit in ISG which managed the Informatics components of Bank loans in several countries. Having joined the World Bank in 1984, Deepak brings 25 years of knowledge and experience in providing support to Bank's operations involving IT components. Deepak's knowledge of the intricacy of IT and understanding of the complexity of strategy development for process and IT integration is guiding staff in providing tactical, operational, and facilitation services to Bank's operational teams in identification, assessment, and re-engineering of IT components in operational projects. His experience prior to this includes: manager for the Informatics advisory service, manager for the Operations and Resource Management systems for systems renewal; manager for the Information and Document Management team in ISG; and project manager for the sector-theme reclassification project.

Zahir Irani : "eGovernment: Past, Present and Future"

Head of the Business School at Brunel University, UK

Editor: Journal of Enterprise Information Management

Editor: Transforming Government: People, Process & Policy

Professor Zahir Irani is the Head of the Business School at Brunel University (UK). Professor Irani  is a multi-disciplinary researcher in the area of information systems

evaluation and eGovernment. He has been recognized as the Hooker Distinguished Professor at McMaster University (Canada) as well as being a Visiting Professor

at several Universities, worldwide. He is the Editor of the established Journal of Enterprise Information Management as well as Editor of Transforming Government:

People, Process and Policy. He has co-authored teaching text-books and written almost 200 internationally refereed papers. He regularly publishes his scholarly work in

leading journals, which include: Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Information & Management, Information

Systems Journal, Journal of Management Information Systems,  European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Operational Research and

European Journal of Information Systems.

GUEST SPEAKERS

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Jeremy Millard : "What Will Egovernance Be Like in 2020 -- Future Visions and Practical Realities"

Danish Technological Institute, Denmark

Policy and Business Analysis & Senior Consultant

Jeremy Millard has 35 years experience working with new technology and society, and has worked with governments,

regional development agencies,and the private and civil sectors in all parts of the world. He is by background a geographer

and social scientist and now works as a consultant, but started his career with large IT companies in the UK and in the public sector.

Recent assignments include leading  a pan-European study on eParticipation and developing a 2020 eGovernment vision for the European Commission,

the eGovernment Awards 2007, and expert support for the OECD, the UN and the Council of Europe.

Frank Bannister  : "O(ver)-Government: e-Government and the Limits of the Desirable"
Chief Editor, Electronic Journal of e-Government (EJEG) & Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Frank Bannister is head of the Information Systems Laboratory in the School  of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College, Dublin.  He is a

founding member of the European Conference on e-Government and a  co-director of the permanent study group on e-government in the European

Group of Public Administration.  He has published extensively in the fields  of e-government and ICT evaluation (including co-editing a book on Risk and

Trust in public sector ICT) and is the editor of the Electronic Journal of  e-Government.  Frank is a Fellow of Trinity College, a Fellow of the Irish

Computer Society and a Chartered Engineer.

Binshan Lin  : "Sustainable E-Government Development and Strategy"

Louisiana State University, USA

Editor-in-Chief, Industrial Management & Data Systems

Acting Editor, Information Management & Computer Security

Dr. Binshan Lin is the BellSouth Corporation Professor at Louisiana State University in Shreveport. Professor Lin receives the Computer Educator of the Year by the International Association for Computer Information Systems (IACIS) in 2005, Ben Bauman Award for Excellence in IACIS 2003, Distinguished Service Award at the Southwest Decision Sciences Institute (SWDSI) in 2007, Outstanding Educator Award at the SWDSI in 2004, and Emerald Literati Club Awards for Excellence in 2003. He has published over 180 articles in refereed journals since 1988, Dr. Lin serves as Editor-in-Chief of

Industrial Management & Data Systems, Acting Editor of Information Management & Computer Security, and other academic journals.

Roland Traunmueller: "e-Governance - a Vision and a Construction-site"

University of Linz, Institute of Informatics in Business and Government, Austria

Prof. Dr. Roland Traunmueller is Professor emeritus in the Institute of Informatics in Business and Administration at Linz University, Austria. In Austria Prof. Traunmueller heads the Forum e-Government, in Germany he is member of the steering body e-Government within the GermanComputer Society (GI, Bonn). In addition he is involved in various consulting activities and boards on the national and international level (Ministries, EU, UNO, UNESCO).

He founded the EGOV conference series. In recognition of founding the e-Government R&D Community he got 2006 the “Prometheus” – an Award dedicated by the North-American Society on Digital Government and by the European Society for e-Government.

Jamal Shahin  : "Future Trends in e-Governance: Linking Policy, Practice and Research"

University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Jamal Shahin is a researcher in the field of e-governance. He is lecturer, University of Amsterdam; Scientific collaborator and advisor
to the Executive Master programme in e-governance at the EPFL; Senior Visiting Consultant at the Danish Technology Institute, and Senior
Associate Fellow at the Institute for European Studies (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). His research and teaching examines changing
patterns of governance in the digital age, with a focus on the evolution of institutions and democracy. He has carried out
consultancy work on an international level for various organisations, including the OECD, the European Commission and the Committee of the Regions.

Brian D. Loader : "The Social and Political Construction of e-Government"

The University of York, UK

Brian D. Loader is Co-Director of the Social Informatics Research Unit, Department of Sociology, University York, UK. He has written extensively on new media and socio-political and cultural change. Editor of Information, Communication and Society (Routledge) his most recent books include Cyberprotest and Young Citizens in the Digital Age. He became founding Editor of the international journal of Information, Communication and Society, organised numerous conferences, led several research programmes, undertook keynote presentations and published books, articles and chapters on community informatics and e-democracy.

Matt Poelmans : "Citizenlink, the Missing Link in e-Government"
Director Citizenlink, Netherlands

Matt Poelmans studied business administration at Nyenrode and political science at Amsterdam University. He started his career at the Social and Economic Council where he held research and managerial positions. Later he was employed by the ministry of Internal Affairs and the ICTU Foundation as a manager of several e-Government programmes: Public Counter 2000, e-Government Knowledge Centre, e-Citizen Programme. At present is Director of Citizenlink and Vice Chairman of the Web Accessibility Foundation. He has been active in politics as a councillor and deputy Mayor in Oegstgeest, a member of the Provincial Council of South Holland and Vice Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party D66. More information on www.mattpoelmans.nl
<http://www.mattpoelmans.nl/>

Alexander Prosser : "E-Voting: Lessons Learnt"

Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria

Prof. Alexander Prosser works at the Dept. of Information Systems and Operations at the University of Economics and Business Administration.
Among other positions, he worked at HEC, Paris and the University of Technology Sydney. His research fields are eGovernment and eVoting, his
research group conducted all three Internet election pilots in Austria. Alexander initiated the EDEM conference series on electronic democracy
and is responsible for the eDemocracy section within the Int. Conference on Legal Information Systems. He chairs the eDemocracy working group at
the Austrian Computer Society and is involved in national and international (EU, Council of Europe) consulting projects.

Reggie Davidrajuh: “Implementing E-Government in Developing Countries: Issues, Problems, and Solutions”

University of Stavanger, Norway

Associate Editor, Electronic Government: an International Journal (EG)

Reggie Davidrajuh specializes on e-government implementations in developing countries. He has published in the areas such as e-government strategies,

e-readiness, and domestic digital divide. He sits in the editorial boards of several journals, and is the editor of International Journal of Business and Systems Research (IJBSR). In addition to his professorship at the University of Stavanger, Norway, he also works as a consultant on e-government issues.

Peter Parycek: "eGovernment & eDemocracy Strategies"
Head of Center for E-Government, & Donau-Universitat Krems, Austria

Chairman of the Working Group eDemocracy& eParticipation, Austrian Federal Chancellery
Chairman of the Working Group eGovernment Training Curriculum for Public Sector Employees, Austrian Federal Chancellery Chairman of the Working Group eDemocracy, Austrian Computer Society (OCG)

Head of the Center for E-Government: development and coordination of academic programmes; managing national and international cooperations
with public and private partners Research, project management and consulting in the field of eGovernment & eDemocracy; Projects include: Participation in Multiparty Procedures (enabling citizens to participate in environmental impact assessment, planning and building permission) Diversification of Target Groups and Life Events in eGovernment: portals for private enterprises and citizens.

Mark Liptrott : "UK E-voting Paradox: The influence of agency on the diffusion of an innovation"

Edge Hill University, UK

Mark is a University Lecturer in Information Systems within the Business School at Edge Hill University and his research has concentrated on the diffusion of e-voting in the UK. Mark has been a regular contributor to the Electronic Journal of E-Government and presented for the last three years at the European Conference of E Government.

His research has been published in various journals including the UK Government Computing News Magazine. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Information Technology and Citizenship and reviews for a number of other journals.

Mats Ostling : "e-Government in Local Authorities and Region: The Case of Sweden"

Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SALAR), Sweden

Mats Ostling has been working as an ICT-strategist since 2000 on a national level, for The Swedish Association of Local Authorities and the Federation of Swedish County Councils. He possesses long-term experience from organisational and development issues on all sorts of ICT-related matters on the level of local authorities. He has participated in different projects aimed at implementing ICT in local governments. He is the Initiator of the Swedish project concentrating on the re-use of public financed software and conversion of software developed within the public sector into open software.

Aroon Manoharan : "Trends in Global E-Governance: A Longitudinal Assessment of

Municipal E-Governance Worldwide"

Associate Director of the E-Governance Institute, Rutgers University-Newark, USA

He is currently the Associate Director of the E-Governance Institute, Rutgers University-Newark and is responsible for managing the daily activities of the Institute. Aroon Manoharan’s research focuses on e-governance, performance measurement and reporting, organization management and comparative public administration. Also as Senior Research Associate of the National Center for Public Performance, he works with the Public Performance Measurement and Reporting Network in promoting the use of valid, reliable data as a key element in improving the delivery of public services.

Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko : "Government 2.0: Towards Interactive and Enabling E-Government"
University of Tampere, Finland

Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko is an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Regional Studies, University of Tampere, Finland. He holds a PhD (Administrative Sciences) and MPhil and Licentiate degrees (Philosophy). Anttiroiko has worked as an expert in several national and international governance and e-government projects. He is a member of editorial boards of several international journals (EG, IJEGR, IJIRD etc.). He is the editor of the special issue of IJTM on global competition of high-tech centres (IJTM Vol. 28 Nos. 3/4/5/6, 2004) and a co-editor of “e-City” (TUP 2005), “e-Transformation in Governance” (IGP 2004) and “Encyclopedia of Digital Government” (IGR 2007).

M.P.Gupta : "Evolution of E-governance in India"
Professor & Chair Information Systems & Egov & Department of Management Studies & Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

Dr.M.P.Gupta is Professor & Chair-Information Systems & Coordinator-Center for Excellence in E-gov at the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Delhi). His research interests lie in the areas of IS/ IT planning and E-government. Prof.. Gupta has authored the acclaimed book “Government Online” and edited two others entitled “Towards E-Government” and “Promise of E-Government”, published by McGraw Hill, 2005. His research papers have appeared in National and International Journals/Conference Proceedings. He supervised e-government portal “Gram Prabhat” which won the IBM Great Mind Challenge Award for the year 2003. He has steered several seminars and also founded the International Conference on E-governance (ICEG) in 2003 which is running into its sixth year. He is on the jury of Computer Society of India (CSI) E-gov Awards and also a member of Program Committee of several International Conferences. He is life member of Global Institute of Flexible Systems Management (GIFT), Systems Society of India (SSI) and Computer Society of India (CSI).

Gianluca Misuraca :"Futuring e-Government: Governance & Policy Implications for Designing an

ICT-enabled Knowledge Society"

College of Management of Technology & Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - EPFL, Switzerland

Gianluca Misuraca is an international independent strategic advisor and policy analyst in the area of Knowledge Society development and Governance of ICTs,

with focus on the interface between ICTs and management and specialised in the area of Government e-Transformation. He is also a Research Associate at the

College of Management of Technology of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).Formerly he has been the Managing Director and Scientific Coordinator of the Executive Master in e-Governance, organized by EPFL in collaboration with prestiogious institutions worldwide. His research interests are on the area of Foresight Intelligence, with specific focus on the future of e-Government, Mobile Internet services and Open Innovation.

Maung K. Sein : "eGovernment in Developing Countries"

Department of Information Systems and Development Studies, University of Agder, Norway

Maung K. Sein is Professor of Information Systems and Development Studies at University of Agder, Norway. He has taught previously at universities in USA, Norway, Finland and Denmark. His current research interests are ICT and national development and e-Government. He has published in such journals as Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Communications of the ACM, The Information Society and Human Computer Interaction, has presented papers in international conferences and held workshops and seminars in several countries around the world. His editorial board experience includes MIS Quarterly, MIS Quarterly Executive, Communications of the AIS, e-Service Journal, Electronic Journal of e-Government and guest-editing Communications of the ACM and Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems. He has chaired and served on the program committees of several conferences, co-founded AIS SIGe-Gov and is a member of the steering committee of the Norwegian Network for ICT and Development.

Ajay Kumar Singh : "e-Governance and e-Government: A Study of Some Initiatives"

University of Delhi, India

Dr. Singh is serving and the Faculty of Commerce and Business, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. and is Hony. President-GB, Divine Group of Institutions researching in Corporate-Governance and Consciousness. Earlier he has served as Professor and Director at DSPSR and as Professor, Head and Dean, FMS, IAMT, NCR, India, where he earned best teacher award in 1998 and 1999. Dr. Singh is the Editor-in Chief of ‘Delhi Business Review’ (2000-2010) and ‘PRANJANA’ (1998-2002). Having 22 years of experience he is widely travelled and his publications are 85 including seven books, 40 research papers (including two award winning papers).

Marijn Janssen : "Orchestrating Services for Integrated Service Delivery "

Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, The Netherlands

Dr. Marijn Janssen is Director of the interdisciplinary SEPAM Master programme and an Associate Professor in the field of e-government within the Information and Communication Technology section of the Technology, Policy and Management Faculty of Delft University of Technology. Marijn has been a consultant for the Ministry of Justice and received a Ph.D. in management information systems (2001). He is particularly interested in situations in which multiple public and private organizations want to collaborate, in which ICT plays an enabling role, solutions are constrained by organizational realities and political wishes, and there are various ways to proceed. More information: www.tbm.tudelft.nl/marijnj.

Mahesh Kumar Singh : "Challenges and Prospective of eGovernance in Hungary"

Director of Tata Centre of Excellence for e-Governance, Hungary

Mahesh Kumar Singh is Director of Tata Centre of Excellence for e-Governance as well as coordinator for International and Business Affairs at the Faculty of Economics and Business Management, Szent Istvan University, Hungary. He is leading Hungarian HR project for e-Governance in Co-operation with Tata Consultancy Services, a fastest growing and one of the largest Information Technology Services Company in the world. He Published, book chapters and more than 50 Scientific Research Papers in National and International conferences, journals and reviews. Mr. Singh received several national and international awards for his academic and research activities e.g. Awarded “Pro Facultate Internationale” from Szent Istvan University.

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