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| title |
Building a Community of Practice for Electronic Governance |
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| speaker |
Dr. Tomasz Janowski |
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| affiliation |
The United Nations University International Institute for Software Technology (UNU-IIST) |
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| abstract |
The aim of this
module is to introduce the UNeGov.net initiative. The main
objective of UNeGov.net is to build a Community of Practice for
developing, sharing, and applying concrete solutions for Electronic
Governance, with particular focus on developing countries. UNeGov.net
will bring together experts and practitioners from government,
academia, industry and civil society in a variety of areas related to
Electronic Governance: Public Administration, Information Technology,
Knowledge Management, Sociology, Economics and others. To support the
community, UNeGov.net will provide an advanced semantic web portal,
establish a series of network-building workshops and organize annually
a conference on the Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance. The
emphasis is as much on solving concrete problems as it is on
establishing best practices in the field. The module will
describe the rationale, objectives, activities and future directions
of UNeGov.net. |
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| 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. |
