UNeGov.net/AbujaSchool/04
 
 
title Engineering Structures and Processes for Electronic Governance
 
speaker Dr. Adegboyega Ojo and Dr. Tomasz Janowski
 
affiliation The United Nations University International Institute for Software Technology (UNU-IIST)
 
abstract Organizational transformation is critical to the effective application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in business and government in particular. There is growing consensus that most reported failures in ICT related-projects are due to the relatively poor attention given to organizational transformation issues - especially in terms of people and processes. This module discusses organizational transformation in the context of electronic governance. It starts by explaining government reform, new public management and the role that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) plays creating opportunities for- and effecting change. Next, the module discusses ICT based structural changes, followed by the concept of Business Process Reengineering (BPR) with focus on public-sector style BPR. Finally change management issues which must accompany structural and process reengineering efforts in the public sector are highlighted. Specifically the module will:
  1. explain basic concepts of organizational transformation and why it is essential for electronic governance
  2. discuss the role of ICT in enabling structural changes in government organizations
  3. explain how to carry out business process reengineering in public organizations
  4. teach how to manage the process of structural and process
    5. changes
 
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bio Adegboyega Ojo is Project Staff at the International Institute for Software Technology of the United Nations University (UNU-IIST), Macao SAR. He is on leave from the Department of Computer Sciences, University of Lagos where he is a Senior Lecturer. Before his engagement at UNU-IIST, he had led major software development projects involving large multinationals in Nigeria. He has first hand knowledge in working with the public sector through his on-going participation in the Macao e-Government Project - a project which creates the strategic direction and foundation for e-government development in Macao. He is currently involved with a number of survey, research, capacity development and software infrastructure building tasks within the project. His research interest includes e-Government, Conceptual Modelling, Ontology Development and applications of Computational Intelligence. His particular interest in e-Government includes Measurement and Benchmarking, e-Service Development, Inter-government Workflow Management and Semantic Interoperability. He holds a Bachelor and Doctorate degrees in Computer Science from the University of Lagos in Nigeria. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, IEEE Computer Society and Computer Professionals of Nigeria.
 
bio Tomasz Janowski is a Research Fellow at UNU-IIST, Macao. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Warwick, England, and an MSc in Mathematics from the University of Gdansk, Poland. Tomasz Janowski is the author or co-author of over 30 publications in Computer Science, Software Engineering and applications in international conferences, journals and books. He has given over one hundred academic presentations, has been the program committee member at over 20 international conferences and is the member of the IFIP Working Group 5.5 - Cooperation Infrastructure for Virtual Enterprises and Electronics Business. Tomasz Janowski has the first-hand knowledge of the public sector - he is the manager and technical leader of the Macao e-Government Project, a foundational project for the development of Electronic Government in Macao. He has 10 years of experience working for UN on various educational, research and networking projects with developing countries. Recently, he initiatiated the UNU-IIST's UNeGov.net initative - Building a Community of Practice for Electronic Governance. His current research interests include development of Electronic Governance, foundations of XML technology and rigorous development of enterprise software, particularly software for the public sector.