Center for Electronic Governance

e-Macao Seminar with Prof. Ralf Klischewski Advanced Training in Government Information Leadership for CIS eGovPoliNet International Policy Community Policy-Driven e-Governance Seminar at W3C ICEGOV 2010 Special Issue of Government Information Quarterly Dr. Janowski appointed as Associate Editor of GIQ Collaboration with UNDESA/DPADM Minitrack at HICSS-45 Research Papers Presented at HICSS - 45 Invited Talk at the International Seminar in Dominican Republic Prof.Henk Sol Delivered a Lecture for Macao SAR Government 36th e-Macao Seminar "From E-Governance to Smart Governance" with J. Millard More

Dr. Tomasz Janowski, UNU-IIST Senior Research Fellow and Head of the UNU-IIST Center for Electronic Governance, presented on Tuesday 21 February 2012 a teleconference seminar on "Policy-Driven EGOV – A Context for EGOV at W3C?" for the members of the e-Government Interest Group at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Elsa Estevez was invited as a keynote speaker at the International Seminar on Sharing Good Practices on the use of ICT in the Public Administration in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She delivered an online lecture on New Trends in e-Governance: Connected Governance Good Practice.

Tomasz Janowski presented the concept of Electronic Governance for Sustainable Development (EGOV4SD) to the UNDESA Division for Public Administration and Development Management (DPADM) in New York on 10 January 2012 and discuss collaboration between DPADM and UNU-IIST in Electronic Governance.

Elsa Estevez, UNU-IIST Academic Programme Officer contributed to the 2nd Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) e-Government Awards and Conference in Kuwait by chairing the Jury of the 2nd GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) e-Government Award.

A tutorial on Electronic Governance for Sustainable Development (EGOV4SD) was organized within the ICEGOV2011conference following the keynote lecture by the Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves. The tutorial was prepared by Tomasz Janowski in collaboration with Adegboyega Ojo and Elsa Estevez, all from the UNU-IIST Centre for Electronic Governance, and Maria Wimmer from the University of Koblenz-Landau.

During the opening ceremony of the 5th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance in his keynote lecture, President Toomas Hendrik Ilves in his keynote lecture, referred to the “twentieth anniversary of Estonian independence version 2.0” by addressing the fundamental question of “how sustainable in the globalized world a small country of 1.4 million could be”.