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A,B,C D,E,F G,H,I J,K,L M,N,O P,Q,R,S T,U,V W,X,Y,Z Georgeff, Greg R. - Corporate Chief Information Officer, Government of Ontario As Corporate Chief Information Officer for the Government of Ontario since 2001, Greg Georgeff is leading the transformation to e-government and furthering the Electronic Service Delivery goals of the province. He rejoined the Ontario Public Service (OPS) in 2000 as Chief Information Officer for the Business and Economics Cluster after a career in the private sector that included a spectrum of IT positions from programmer to CIO. Greg was the Vice President of Information Services at the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement Systems. For nine years prior to that he was Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Noranda Inc., implementing a comprehensive business and technology strategy for its global group of companies, and moving Noranda to the forefront of information technology utilization. He has also headed his own consulting firm specializing in data communications, and held information technology related positions at Datacrown and CIBC. Early in his career, after graduating from Cambrian University College in business administration, he worked as a systems programmer in the Government of Ontario and quickly advanced to manage one of the OPS computing facilities. Greg is passionate about enabling organizations to capture the potential of their intellectual capital through Information Technology. He has proven negotiation and collaboration skills along with an outstanding ability to match technology requirements with business needs. Girishankar, Navin - Senior Public Sector Specialist, AFTPR, World Bank Navin Girishankar is currently a Senior Public Sector Specialist in the Africa Region of the World Bank. Over the past five years, he has led Bank teams on several IDA operations including those supporting civil service reforms, public financial management reforms, decentralization, and legal and judicial reforms across Southern and Eastern Africa. Most recently, he has led IDA’s largest support program (USD100 million) for a Sector Wide Approach to Ethiopia’s Public Sector Capacity Building Program (PSCAP). In addition leading the Bank’s efforts from the field in Addis Ababa between 2002 and 2004, Navin has contributed to and led several analytical pieces in Uganda, Malawi, South Africa, and Ethiopia. Prior to joining the Africa Region, Navin worked as an Evaluation Officer in the Operations Evaluation Department of the Bank, where he task managed studies on civil service reform, service delivery, and evaluation methodology. Before joining the Bank, he was the Domestic Policy Analyst for the Progressive Policy Institute. Navin has written and published articles on the institutional underpinnings of poverty reduction, decentralization, evaluation methodology, public management, and civil service reform. He holds graduate and undergraduate degrees from Harvard University and Williams College respectively. Pierre Guislain - General Manager, FIAS, World Bank Group Pierre Guislain, a Belgian national, currently serves as General Manager of the Foreign Investment Advisory Service. Earlier he was the Manager of the World Bank Group’s Information and Communication Technologies Policy Division. In this position, Pierre is in charge of the Bank’s telecommunications and postal sector project and analytical portfolio and provides support on the broader ICT and e-development agenda. His team operates in about eighty countries in all client regions of the Bank and is part of the joint Bank-IFC Global ICT Department (GICT). Pierre joined the World Bank in 1983 and worked successively in the West Africa Projects Department, the Legal Department, the Asia Technical Department, and the Private Sector Advisory Services Department, before joining GICT in October 2001. From 1997 to 2001, he was based in Brussels where he managed a joint program between the World Bank and the European Commission on Private Participation in Mediterranean Infrastructure. Pierre is the author or editor of several publications on ICT, infrastructure sector reform and privatization, including ICT & Development – Enabling the Information Society, a December 2003 compilation prepared for the World Summit on the Information Society, and The Privatization Challenge, a 1997 World Bank book on the strategic, legal, and institutional aspects of privatization. Over the last 15 years, he has advised many governments on infrastructure and telecommunication sector reform, with emphasis on issues of market structure, competition, regulation and privatization. Pierre holds an MPA in Economics and Public Policy from Princeton University and a graduate law degree from the University of Louvain. Manju Haththotuwa, Senior ICT Policy Specialist, SASFP, World Bank In his present role with the World Bank, Manju will advice & support our client countries to bring their e-development aspirations to fruition, in a practical way. Manju was the founding Managing Director/CEO of the National ICT Agency of Sri Lanka, which championed the e- Sri Lanka program from concept to implementation. He is also Advisor to His Excellency the President of Sri Lanka. He was a member of the cabinet appointed Public Sector Reform’s Committee of the GoSL. His involvement in Academia includes serving on the governing council of the Open University of Sri Lanka, which is leading the way countrywide in distance & e-learning. He is a thought leader in ICT and involved at a national level in policy making, working in collaboration with the Chambers of Commerce, Trade Associations and Civil Society organizations. Manju has also had a very successful career in private sector, rising to the top of the corporate ladder as the Chairman to the Board of a number of prestigious, public quoted companies. These include, Central Securities Ltd., Ceylon Oxygen Ltd., e-Channelling Ltd, Kothmale Group of companies & Kelsey Group of companies. Their areas of business span from finance & capital markets to property development, food, healthcare, manufacturing & ICT. Prior to that, Manju was responsible for the global operations in US, India and Singapore of Millennium IT - one of the world’s leading capital markets trading software providers. He was also the founder Chairman of e-Channelling - a pioneering health services portal & Sri Lanka’s first technology IPO to be listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange. Before that he was MD /CEO of one of Sri Lanka’s largest multi–disciplinary engineering companies. Manju has also practiced the UK & Europe in management consultancy, as well as in engineering design, construction & project management of major infrastructure projects. Manju is a Chartered Professional Engineer, with a demonstrable track record and substantial board experience in both government and the private sector, having a useful combination of technical and business skills gathered over two decades in IT, Engineering, National Development and Management Consultancy. Manju has a BSc (Hons) in Engineering from the prestigious Imperial College, London and a MBA with Distinction from the University of London. Grönlund , Åke - Professor of Informatics at Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden (Affiliated to dept of Informatics at Umeå University)
Åke’s research currently has a strong focus on Electronic Government. In this field he has published international books including "Electronic Government – Design, Application and Management" and "Managing Electronic Services". Åke’s research covers the coordination of organizations and networks using ICT, including electronic service delivery, organizational redesign, electronic information infrastructures, and ICT-enabled coordination of work. Åke is chair of the two largest e-Government researcher communities, one within the US-based Association of Information Systems (sigegov.org) and one within IFIP (International Federation of Information Systems, IFIP WG 8.2 - http://falcon.ifs.uni-linz.ac.at/research/ifip85.html). Åke is also Program Chair of the International EGOV conference. Åke has participated in several international eGov projects. Åke is founding faculty and member of the Steering Committee of the EU e-Government "Network of Excellence" DemoNet and the Swedish research program DemocrIT on ICT in democratic processes. Hanna, Nagy - Director, International Center for e-Leadership & Senior Research Fellow, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland
Internationally recognized development strategist with extensive experience in advising developing countries and aid agencies on implementing strategies to leverage information and communication technology in support of national, sectoral and business development. Initiated the E-leadership Forum at the University of Maryland. Led the World Bank’s practice in applying ICT for development, as the Bank’s first senior advisor on e-strategies, and the founder and chair of the worldwide community of practice on e-development. Over 30 years of diverse development experience across all geographic regions, covering private sector development, knowledge economy, and state modernization. Assisted India is designing its first strategy for software exports in 1990. Pioneered World Bank lending for integrated e-development programs with the e-Sri Lanka operation in 2003. Executive coach, innovator, communicator, and thought leader. Was responsible for developing ICT strategies, strategic management processes, capacity building programs, learning systems, and new lending and advisory services for the World Bank and client countries. Spoke and published extensively on e-development, e-leadership, e-government, national competitiveness, strategic planning, change management, executive education and institutional development. PhD, Wharton, and executive development, Harvard. Heeks, Richard - Senior Lecturer in Information Systems at the University of Manchester, UK
Richard has been a researcher, trainer and consultant on e-government since the mid-1990s. His work has focused on four main areas: success and failure of e-government projects; the relation between ICTs and public corruption and accountability; public health information systems; and understanding e-government from an organizational behavior/politics perspective. His publications include "Reinventing Government in the Information Age" (Routledge) and "Implementing and Managing e-Government: An International Text" (Sage). Various aspects of his work on e-government can be accessed from: http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/idpm/dig |
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