Tomasz Janowski is the founder and head of the UNU-IIST Center for Electronic Governance, an international center of excellence in Electronic Governance, part of United Nations University - International Institute for Software Technology (UNU-IIST), located in Macao, China, and Senior Research Fellow of UNU-IIST.

An author of numerous publications in Computer Science, Software Engineering and Electronic Governance, Tomasz Janowski has led a number of research, development and capacity-building projects in the area of Information and Communication Technology and Electronic Governance; organized many schools, workshop and conferences with governments and universities around the developing world; and served as a Program Committee (PC) member and PC Chair at numerous international conferences.

In particular, Tomasz Janowski:

1) Founded a series of International Conferences on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV - www.icegov.org),

2) Established an initiative to build a global Community of Practice for Electronic Governance (UNeGov.net - www.unegov.net), and

3) Led a unique government program to build a foundation for Electronic Government in Macao (e-Macao - www.emacao.gov.mo).

His research interests include foundations and frameworks for sustainable Electronic Governance, tools and applications of formal engineering techniques, and rigorous development of enterprise systems, particularly systems for the public sector.

Tomasz Janowski 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.