Electronic Government Development Framework - Assessment, Research, Strategy, Implementation (UNEGOV.*)
  • Other
  • IAC International Forum 2009 & 4th IAC General Meeting 2009, Bangkok, Thailand
  • 29-30 June 2009

Dr. Tomasz Janowski
  • Head, UNU-IIST Center for Electronic Governance
  • Senior Research Fellow, UNU-IIST
Poland

Tomasz Janowski is a Senior Research Fellow at United Nations University - International Institute for Software Technology in Macao (UNU-IIST), and the founder and head of the UNU-IIST Programme for Electronic Governance - an international center of excellence on technology-enabled tranformation of public organizations and their relationships with citizens, businesses, civil society and one another (www.egov.iist.unu.edu).

A computer scientist, researcher and practitioner in Electronic Governance, with many years of service in the United Nations and a keen interest in the use of ICT for national and public administration development, Tomasz Janowski has:

  • led a number of research, development and capacity-building projects funded by Macao Foundation, Microsoft, World Bank, UNU, UNDP, EU and IFAW;
  • worked as a lecturer, collaborator or advisor to national governments in Afghanistan, Cameroon, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, Jordan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, Nigeria, Palestine and sub-national governments in Macao and Abuja;
  • organized over a hundred conferences, schools, workshops and courses in developing countries; and
  • presented many invited contributions at various development conferences organized by national - AIT (Thailand), CAN (Nepal), CNSA (China), CSPS (Canada), INWENT (Germany), JEITA (Japan), NITDA (Nigeria), KIPA and NIA (Korea) and RSS (Jordan), international - ADB, CTO, EU, ICA, ITU, and United Nations organizations - UNESCWA, UNDESA, UNESCAP, UNU-MERIT and UNU-ONY.

Tomasz Janowski also founded a series of International Conferences on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (www.icegov.org), established a rigorous framework EGOV.* for Electronic Government Development currently implemented in different countries, and a led a unique government-academia program for Electronic Government development in Macao (www.emacao.gov.mo).

Tomasz Janowski has written on the topics of foundations and frameworks for Electronic Governance, tools and applications of formal techniques, and rigorous development of enterprise systems, particularly systems for the public sector; documented in six books and many publications and project reports. He also serves on the Editorial and Advisory Boards of three Journals, and has been a Programme Committee Co-Chair at five and PC Member at over fifty international conferences.

He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Warwick, England, and an MSc in Mathematics from the University of Gdansk, Poland. He can be contacted by email at tj@iist.unu.edu.

Dr. Tomasz Janowski delivers an invited talk at the International Academy of CIO (IAC) International Forum 2009 and 4th IAC General Meeting 2009 in Bangkok, Thailand.

His talk entitled "Electronic Government Development Framework - Assessment, Research, Strategy, Implementation (UNEGOV.*)" outlines the concept of Electronic Government and typical challenges facing developing vis-a-vis developed countries that carry out Electronic Government development, and proposes a rigorous Electronic Government Development Framework (UNEGOV.*) to address some of the challenges.

The framework enables systematic construction of Electronic Government for Public Administrations (PA) in terms of: establishing the readiness of the PA for ICT-enabled transformation;(2) determining state-of-the-art in Electronic Government practices and solutions around the world, as relevant to the PA; (3) building a PA-wide vision and strategy towards the development of high-quality Electronic Government; (4) constructing a government program to implement this strategy; (5) building human capacity for the PA, covering leadership, management and technical skills, to be able to execute and benefit from this program; and (6) establishing a Resource Center for Electronic Government on the basis of existing institutions, particularly government and academia, and raising the capacity of this Center to execute the program. So far, the framework has been applied in three countries - one completed, one ongoing, and one about to begin. Finally, the talk outlines collaboration opportunities towards localizing and implementing UNEGOV.* projects with UNU.