Biographies
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Professor
Brian Corbitt
Brian Corbitt is currently Professor of Management Information
Systems, Head of the School of Business Information Technology and Dean , Research and Innovation at RMIT University, Australia.
He has previously been Adjunct Professor of IT at KMIT (NB) and then
Professor of Management Science at Shinawatra University in Thailand, Pro
Vice Chancellor (Online Services at Deakin University, JADE Professor of
eCommerce at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. and prior to
that lectured at the University of Melbourne, where he was also Head of
International House, and before that Monash University. He has extensive
experience in the application of information systems in developing countries.
He worked in Thailand
for 15 years and is very knowledgeable of the Thai Economic, Health, Social
and Health systems. He is the author of a major report to the Australian
Government in 2006 of Higher Education demands in Thailand. He specializes in IT
policy development, in Health Information Systems design, analysis and
implementation; in Business Modeling and Design and Electronic Commerce trade
relationships, and knowledge management. He has published 6 books on
eBusiness, eCommerce and eGovernment, and another 4 books. He has also
published over 150-refereed scholarly papers, and
also numerous government reports to the Governments of Thailand and New Zealand, and some 20 invited papers as a
keynote speaker on IT policy in Malaysia,
Singapore, Thailand, New
Zealand, Japan,
Hong Kong, and Australia.
His current research is on risk alignment in health systems in Thailand and Australia
and modelling agricultural supply chain systems in Vietnam.
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Mohini Singh
Mohini Singh is a Professor of Information Technology
and E-Business in the School
of Business Information Technology.
She is the RMIT
University
representative on FEAST (Forum for European and Australian Science and
Technology cooperation) and the Director, Industry Engagement. She earned her PhD in New Technology
Management from Monash
University, and has
published widely in the areas of E-Business and New Technology and Innovation
Management. Her publications
comprise books, book chapters, journal and conference papers. Her
presentations include keynote addresses and conference presentations at
national, international and industry forums. She is the principal editor of
two highly regarded books on E-Business, and serves as a member on the
editorial boards of several international journals. Mohini was the founding
director of the E-Commerce Research Unit at Victoria University.
She is the eCommerce/eBusiness track chair at the IADIS International
Conference on E-Society and the editor, Journal of Internet Commerce, a
special issue on emerging e-business issues. Her current research projects
are on the impact evaluation of e-government on rural and urban communities
and the role of CIOs in the public sector.
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Mohini Singh
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Miriam Lips
Miriam
Lips is the first Professor of E-Government at Victoria University of
Wellington with positions in the School
of Information Management and the School of Government,
and a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.
Her Chair at Victoria
University is sponsored
by Datacom systems Limited, the New Zealand State Services Commission
, Cisco New Zealand Limited and FX Networks Limited. For a full bio
please visit Miriam’s homepage at http://e-government.vuw.ac.nz/index.aspx
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Hepu Deng
Hepu Deng is an Associate Professor in Information Systems in the School of Business
Information Technology, RMIT University, Australia.
His research interests are in decision analysis, intelligent systems,
knowledge management, electronic government, and their applications in
business. The multi-disciplinary nature of his research and the emphasis on
both theoretical and applied research are exemplified by more than eighty
refereed articles in various international journals and conferences,
including European Journal of Operational Research, Computers and Operational
Research, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, International
Journal of Computer and Information Sciences, and International Journal of
the Operational Research Society. Hepu is active in the international
academic communities. He was the Publicity Chair for five IEEE sponsored
international conferences in China and Singapore including the 9th IEEE
International Conference on Neural Information Processing (2002), the 4th
Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning (2002), and the
2002 International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery and
the organization committee member for numerous international conferences. He
was and is currently a referee for many prestigious international journals
including the International Journal of Fuzzy Sets and Systems, International
Journal of Approximate Reasoning, European Journal of Operational Research,
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, International Journal of Computers and
Industrial Engineering, International Journal of information Sciences,
Computers and Operations Research, International Journal of Production
Economics, Journal of Computational Intelligence in Finance, Journal of
Operations Management and International Journal of Knowledge and Information
Systems.
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Shirish Srivastava
Shirish C. Srivastava currently teaches at the School of Business,
National University of Singapore. He has a rich working experience of over
seven years with the Government of India (Indian Railways) in the senior
management cadre, where he was involved with operations, maintenance, and
technology planning. Shirish has published extensively in the areas of
e-Government, IT enabled offshoring, and technology related policy issues.
International refereed journals and books where his research has been
published include MIS Quarterly
Executive, Communications of the AIS, Journal of Information Technology,
Journal of Global Information Management, Information Resources Management
Journal, Electronic Government: An International Journal, IIMB Management
Review, International Journal of
Information & Communication Technology Education, Encyclopedia of Information Science and
Technology, Adapting Information
and Communication Technologies for Effective Education, and Vikapla: The Journal of Decision Makers. He has also presented his research in
key international refereed conferences like: International Conference on
Information Systems (ICIS), Academy of Management (AOM), Academy of
International Business (AIB), Institute for Operations Research and the
Management Sciences (INFORMS), Americas Conference on Information Systems
(AMCIS), and Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS). He has
also served as a panelist on e-Government at the Pacific Asia Conference on
Information Systems (PACIS) at Shanghai,
China in
2004. Twice he has been nominated for the prestigious Carolyn Dexter Award at
the Academy of Management (AOM) Meetings 2005 & 2007 and was the finalist
for the award at the AOM 2007, Philadelphia, U.S.A. Recently he was
the winner of the Society for Information Management
(SIM) Paper Award, U.S.A., 2007. Shirish holds a MBA from Management
Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon,
India, where
he was awarded the Prime Minister’s Medal. His academic profile is
available at http://www.bschool.nus.edu/PGStudents/cv.asp?ID=HT030538X
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Toni
Carbo
Toni Carbo is a
professor at the School of Information Sciences (SIS) and the Graduate School
of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) at the University
of Pittsburgh.
Her work in the information field began in 1962 and includes extensive
experience with information service producers and users (both libraries and
database producers) and with research and development in the areas of
information policy and the use of information. Her teaching and
research interests focus on Information Ethics and Information Policy,
especially concerning e-government. She has directed international research
projects related to the use of scientific and technical information, and her
research on overlap in coverage of scientific literature is still considered
among the seminal works in the field. Author of numerous articles, speeches,
and technical reports in the information sciences, Dr. Carbo is the Editor of
The International Information and Library Review (IILR) and has served on the
editorial boards of several publications.
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Toni Carbo
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Sushil K.
Sharma
Sushil K. Sharma
is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems
and Operations Management at Ball State University,
Muncie, Indiana.
Dr. Sharma has the distinction of having earned two Doctoral Degrees one in
MIS and the other in Management. Prior to joining the faculty at Ball State,
Dr. Sharma has held the Associate Professor position at the Indian Institute
of Management (India) and
as a Visiting Research Associate Professor at the Department of Management
Science at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He was chair of the
Quantitative Systems Group and Information Technology and Systems department
at Indian Institute of management (India).
Dr. Sharma has authored over 100 refereed research papers in many
peer-reviewed national and international MIS journals, conferences
proceedings and books. His research, primarily involving e-commerce,
computer-mediated communications, information systems security, e-government,
ERP systems, cluster computing, web services and knowledge management has
appeared in such journals as International Journal of Information
Management, International Journal of Healthcare Technology and
Management, Electronic Government Journal, Journal of
Electronic Commerce in Organizations, Journal of Global Information
Technology Management, The Journal of Computer Information Systems,
Journal of Logistics Information Management, International Journal
of Management, Electronic Commerce Research Journal and in numerous
books. Dr. Sharma has earned recognition for his teaching and research and
has been a recipient of Extra Ordinary Year Award for three years
consecutively at Miller College of Business, Ball State
University. His
comprehensive academic profile is available at http://www.bsu.edu/cob/profile/0,1391,1545-520-90014,00.html
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Saïd Assar
Saïd Assar is Associate Professor of Information Systems at the I.N.T
engineering and management school (Institut National des
Télécoms, Evry, France). He
holds an engineering degree and a PhD in computer science from Pierre & Marie Curie University in Paris,
and has published in the area of information systems engineering, e-business
and e-government. He has directed a research project on public e-procurement
evaluation in France
and co-edited a book on e-government. He actually serves as member in many
international conferences (ECIS, IADIS, IBIMA) and is member of the
organizing committee of ICIS 2008 which will be held in Paris.
His academic profile
is available at http://www-public.int-evry.fr/~assar/
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Nazmun Nahar
Nazmun Nahar
has been working as a faculty at the Department of Computer Science and
Information Systems at the University
of Jyväskylä, Finland.
She earned two PhD degrees, in Information Systems Engineering from Tallinn Technical
University and in Information
Systems Science from the University
of Jyväskylä.
She has done extensive research and teaching on: diffusion of technology and
IT innovations, knowledge and high technology transfer, global eBusiness,
international outsourcing, globally distributed IS development and
management, models for international software business and entrepreneurship,
international software product development for world markets, strategic
partnerships, and IT-supported globalization and management of high-tech
firms. She has published papers in leading IS Journals, Books, Monographs,
and Proceedings. She is on the editorial board of several international
journals. She has managed a number of research projects and given seminars,
lectures and talks in various international conferences and universities.
Since 1995, she has been guiding several companies in their global business
and IT strategy formulation.
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Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi
Yogesh Kumar
Dwivedi is a Lecturer in Information Systems at the School of Business
and Economics, Swansea University,
UK. He
obtained his PhD entitled ‘Investigating consumer adoption, usage and impact
of broadband: UK households’ and MSc in
Information Systems from the School
of Information Systems, Computing
and Mathematics, Brunel University,
UK. His primary research interests
focus upon the adoption and diffusion of Information and Communication
Technologies (ICTs) in organizations and society. He has co-authored more
than 40 papers in academic journals and international conferences. He is a
member of the Association of Information Systems (AIS) and Life Member of the
Global Institute of Flexible Systems Management, New Delhi.
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Michael
D. Williams
Michael Williams is a Professor in the
School of Business and Economics, and Director of the Centre for e-Business Research at Swansea University in the UK. He holds a BSc from the CNAA, an
MEd from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD from the University of Sheffield. He is a member
of the British Computer Society and is registered as a Chartered Engineer. He
has implemented, and evaluated
information systems in a variety of domains including finance,
telecommunications, manufacturing, and government, is the author of
numerous refereed and invited papers, has obtained external research funding
from a range of sources including the European Union, the Nuffield
Foundation, and the Welsh Assembly Government, and has acted as consultant on
various aspects of organisational and societal impact of ICT introduction and
use to organisations such as the UK National Health Service and the Royal
Mint. He is co-chair of the Information Systems Innovation, Adoption and Diffusion Research Track
for the 2008 European Conference on Information Systems, and currently serves as an invited member
of the Project Expert Group for a European Union funded project examining
transformative use of ICT.
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M. P. Gupta
M. P. Gupta is Associate Professor,
Chair-Information Systems Group & Coordinator-Center for Excellence in
E-gov at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Delhi). His research
interests lies in the areas of IS/ IT planning and E-government. Dr. Gupta
has authored 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
was the recipient of the prestigious Humanities & Social Sciences (HSS)
fellowship of Shastri Indo Canadian Institute, Calgary (Canada) and a
Visiting Fellow at the University of Manitoba. 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 running into
fifth 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)
and Systems Society of India.
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Princely Ifinedo
Princely Ifinedo is an Assistant Professor at the Shannon School of Business,
Cape Breton University, Canada. He earned his PhD (Information Systems
Science) from Jyväskylä University, Finland. He also holds an MBA
(International Management) from Royal Holloway College, University of London,
the UK, a M.Sc. (Informatics) from Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
and a B.Sc. (Mathematics/Computer Science) from the University of
Port-Harcourt, Nigeria. Dr. Ifinedo worked both in Africa and Europe before
relocating to North America. His current research interests include
e-government, e-business, social informatics, ERP success measurement,
IT/business alignment, and the diffusion of IS/IT in transiting and
developing economies. He has presented at various international IS
conferences and his papers have appeared in such journals as Journal of
Computer Information Systems, Journal of E-government, Electronic Government:
an International Journal, Journal of Information Technology Management,
Industrial Management & Data Systems, Enterprise Information
Systems, Business Process
Management Journal, Information Management & Computer Security,
Information Technology for Development, and Journal of Global
Information Technology Management. Dr. Ifinedo has authored (or
co-authored) about 50 peer-reviewed papers. He is affiliated with AIS, ACM,
DSI, ASAC, and CIPS.
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Graham Orange
Graham Orange is a Reader in Information Systems. His research focuses on
knowledge management and organisational learning but includes other areas
such as business process modelling, IS strategy and IS development. Graham
supervises doctoral students and teaches on the Faculty’s Masters in Public
Sector Innovation. He has previously held grants as Principle Investigator
and is an active participant in the eGovernment Integration and Systems
Evaluation (eGISE) network of excellence funded by EPSRC. Prior to joining
Leeds Metropolitan University Graham was a professional systems consultant
with one of the UK’s most prestigious firms. He is now an active
researcher writing and reviewing journal and conference papers, conference
chair (e.g. AMCIS mini track chair), reviewing research council proposals
etc. He has close links with local authorities with regard to both research
and consultancy and has just completed a European project on youth
citizenship (POLITEIA) with municipalities in Europe.
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Ah Lian Kor
Ah Lian Kor is a Post-doctoral Researcher at Leeds Metropolitan University.
In 2001 she obtained her PhD from the University of Leeds for work on
‘A Computer Based Learning Environment for the Exploration of
Buoyancy’. Her diverse research interests are: the evaluation of
eGovernment systems; innovation systems; and the investigation of reasoning
and learning styles users adopt when interacting with computer-based learning
systems. Her research also includes modelling qualitative understanding based
on semantic networks or causal maps. She has published papers in qualitative
reasoning. She is a paper
reviewer for AMCIS 2007, book reviewer for ICS (Information Communication and
Society); and committee member for the ICEG 2008
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Tony Elliman
Tony Elliman is a Reader in information systems and computing at Brunel
University. He gained a first-degree electrical engineering but moved into
software engineering where he gained his doctorate for research in medical
information systems in 1989. His research interests are in the architecture
and evaluation of information systems within the public sector and in
particular the development of systems for professional users. Tony currently
the project coordinator for an EU FP6 e-Inclusion project for the elderly -
DIADEM - and a Director of Brunel’s Interdisciplinary research centre
ISEing. Dr Elliman is a regular conference chair and serves on the editorial
boards of Transforming government: People, process and policy and the Journal
of Enterprise Information Systems. As a chartered engineer and chartered IT
professional he has provided software consultancy services to government,
academic and private sector organizations, including DERA and the EU
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Mary Griffiths
Dr. Mary Griffiths joined
the Department of Screen and Media Studies, University of Waikato in 2004 as
Associate Professor and departmental research co-ordinator. She is affiliated
with Monash University as a Research Associate, for both the Media Governance
Research Panel (Faculty of Business and Economics) and the Institute for
Regional Studies, Gippsland Campus. Her research interests are in the social
and political uses of new media: specifically, the cultures of e-democracy,
online environment and mobile media, audiences and users of ICTs as citizens
and content providers, media ethics, and regulation. With twenty years
experience as a distance educator, she has also published on e-learning and
new media forms, such as blogs. She is co-editing a special issue of Media
International Australia, ‘A Clever Little Country? : Cultural Change
and Identity in New Zealand’; and, for Southern Review : Communication,
Politics and Culture , an issue on ‘Media and Belief in an
Interdependent World.’ Her current projects include identifying
democratic directions in mobile research, the organisation of online
religion, and mobile civic art.
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Lazlo Gabor
Lazlo Gabor is currently teaching at Budapest Tech whilst at the same time he
manages the Information Society Research and Education Group within the same
institution. Lazlo is a PhD candidate at the Budapest University of
Technology and Economics. His research interests focus on open source
software and its applications in the public sector. He has background in both
economics and technology.
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Ian Dennis
Ian Dennis has
served the IT industry for nearly forty years, in his roles as a software
developer, software company and consulting company director, and through his
various honorary positions. These include Chairman, Australian Computer
Society – Victoria, National Director, Economic and Industry Policy,
Australian Computer Society, and National Chairman, Pearcey Foundation Inc. He was
awarded an Australian Design Award for software in 1987 and was made a Life
Member of the Software and Services Industry Federation in 1989 for his
services to industry. He served continuously on Federal or State boards of Information Technology trade bodies from 1981 to 1996,
including serving as President of both the Australian Software Houses
Associations and the Software and Services Industry Federation, and as a Director of the AIIA. He was one of
the Australian founders of the regional trade association ASOCIO
(Asian-Oceanian Computing Industry Organisation). Ian is also a United
Nations approved International Trade consultant (UNCTAD/GATT) International
Trade Centre, and a member of the Roster of Experts in Technical Consultancy
Services, and a Registered Expert in Information Technology, Research
Directorate DGXII, European Commission
Presently Ian serves as Executive Director of the Centre for Innovative
Industry Economic Research, and Chairman of Whitehorse Strategic Group
Limited, a consulting company specialising in IT and innovative industry
policy and strategy, and the publishers of the Whitehorse “Top
250” regular analysis and reports on the Australian ICT industry
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Updated 30
May 2008
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