From Barriers to Benefits: Efficiency and Effectiveness of eGovernment

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• Professor Helen Margetts,Professor Rebecca Eynon,Professor Alexandre Caldas
• Name: Professor Helen Margetts|Professor Rebecca Eynon|Professor Alexandre Caldas|Emilio Aced-Félez|Michael Blakemore|Soumi Papadopoulou|Edna Pasher|John Shaddock|Yair Sharan|Tal Soffer|Dr Trond Arne Undheim|Rita Wardenier|Irina Zinovieva
• Affiliation: Oxford Internet Institute|Oxford Internet Institute|Director, Management Centre for the Electronic Government Network,
  Portugal|Head of the Inspection Unit, Data Protection Agency of Madrid,
  Spain|IDRA Ltd and Emeritus Professor of Geography, University of Durham,
  UK|Managing Consultant, PLANET SA|CEO, Edna Pasher PhD & Associates|Local Government Yorkshire and Humber, UK|ICTAF at Tel Aviv University, Israel|ICTAF at Tel Aviv University, Israel|eGovernment Unit, European Commission|Free University of Brussels, Belgium|Free University of Brussels, Belgium
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• Bio: Helen Margetts is Professor of Society and the Internet at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. She is a political scientist of international standing in eGovernment and digital era governance, investigating the nature and implications of relationships between governments and the Internet and related information and communication technologies in the UK and internationally. She has published major research reports in this area for such agencies as the UK’s National Audit Office, in addition to important books and articles.|Rebecca Eynon completed her PhD at the Department of Sociology, City University, London in 2003 and continued to develop her interests in e-learning as an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow. Rebecca has also worked at the Centre for Mass Communication Research, University of Leicester, the School of Education, University of Birmingham and the Department of Sociology and Cultural Studies at Birmingham. For the past five years Rebecca has been engaged in research into e-learning and eGovernment. She is currently the project manager for the Breaking Barriers to eGovernment project, funded by the European Commission.|Alexandre Caldas was a Faculty Research Fellow at the OII (April 2004 – October 2005). He is now a Research Associate of the OII. He holds a PhD in Science and Technology Policy from SPRU, University of Sussex (2004). He completed his Master’s with distinction in Management of Science and Technology at the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal (1997). He was Director of the Science and Technology Park and ICT Coordinator for the Science and Technology Foundation, Ministry of Science and Technology (1994-2000). He was Guest Teacher at the London School of Economics, in New Media and Communications Department (2005-2006).|Emilio Aced-Félez has an IT background. He has got a Degree in Mathematics (Computer Science Section) and has worked in the ITC field, both in the private and public sectors. Since 1995 has been engaged in data protection matters, first in the Spanish Data Protection Authority and now in the Data Protection Agency of Madrid. During these years he has headed the Data Protection Unit both in the national and the regional authorities and has been in charge of the International Affairs Department. He has been a representative of the Spanish DPA to the Data Protection Working Party (Article 29 Working Party) and Vice-Chairman and Chairman of the Europol data protection Joint Supervisory Body.|Michael Blakemore researches and consults on the ‘consumption’ of the Information Society, both at a European level and in the context of international development. His recent activities include knowledge production and consumption in SMEs, organisational strategy for geographic information in Egypt, information pricing and markets, and freedom of information, intellectual property and human rights. He is currently involved in the EU Information Society Directorate project on ‘Organisational Change for Citizen-Centric eGovernment’|Soumi Papadopoulou is a Managing Consultant in the Research & Innovation Unit of the International Group of PLANET SA. She has participated in several Research & Development projects funded by the European Commission’s IST Programme in the areas of eGovernment, e-business and knowledge management. The main projects include PICTURE, SAKE, IS2WEB, ONTOGOV, CB-BUSINESS, KNOWLABORATION, INKASS. She holds a masters degree in European Politics and Policy from the London School of Economic and Social Sciences.|Edna Pasher founded an international strategic management consulting firm in 1978. The firm provides customized consulting services to organizations both in the private and the public sectors, specialising in assisting their client organizations to speed up strategic renewal in a turbulent environment. Dr. Pasher earned her Ph.D. at New York University in Communication Arts and Sciences. In 1994 Edna Pasher PhD & Associates identified Knowledge and Innovation Management as the critical success factor for organizational renewal and have become the pioneers and leaders of the Knowledge and Innovation Management Movement in Israel. Edna is a founding member of the European SoL Sustainability Group and leads the Israeli SoL Sustainability Group.|John Shaddock has a background in strategic management in the public and private sectors and has worked on aspects of eGovernment at local and regional levels as both practitioner and adviser. eGovernment interests include the European context, cross-sectoral working and in speeding innovation in the public sector. Current European projects include UNDERSTAND (Benchmarking eRegion progress – leading the policy learning workstream), BENTLi (Benchmarking Digital Literacy) and DEMOnet (eParticipation research – jointly leading the Integration workstream).|Yair Sharan received his PhD in Physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science, in 1976. He is a Col. (Reserves) in the IDF. He specialties in defence R&D and strategic studies. He served as Science Counsellor at the Israeli Embassy in Bonn, between 1988-1992 and in the early 90s as advisor to the Minister of Science and Technology. In 1992 he joined ICTAF and has been active in studies in threat analysis, strategic planning and defence concepts. Major studies include non-conventional terrorism, dual use technologies and the Middle East peace process. Dr Sharan is a member of oversight groups in the Jaffe Center for Strategic Studies and the defence group of the recently established School of Governance.|Tal Soffer is a Senior Researcher at ICTAF at Tel-Aviv University, since 1992. She is an expert in the fields of Sociology, Labour relations and Education. Her special interests include: trends in the future labour market, future occupations and skills, gender and education. She also specializes in diffusion of innovation in the educational field, e.g. the Web-supported learning (e-learning) as well as the implication of new technologies (IT) on a different areas e.g. Internet and eGovernment. She is a consultant to policy decision makers in the Israeli Ministries of Education and Labour, as well as to others ICTAF clients, such as the EU, ‘NA’AMAT’ – The Israeli Women’s Labour Organization, etc.|Trond Arne Undheim is a National Expert with the DG Information Society and Media. He is the Efficiency and Effectiveness (E&E) lead for the eGovernment Action Plan – responsible for measuring and sharing. Trond manages EC-funded studies and projects on eGovernment barriers, Open Source, Organizational change, and Pan-European services. A Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the Project Manager on software policy at the Norwegian Board of Technology, he was a Visiting Fellow at UC Berkeley in California. He has co-founded several start-ups, including a think tank. Undheim obtained his PhD (2002) in Sociology and Technology Studies from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.|Rita Wardenier is senior researcher at Free University of Brussels. She did policy research for public authorities and organisations such as the Belgian National, Flemish and Brussels Regional Governments; political parties and federations. She is the author of one book and numerous policy reports; she was the Belgian contributor to SME publications of the European network for Social and Economic Research (ENSR). Current research concentrates on the stimulation of the adoption of Information Technology in small traditional enterprises for the automatisation of administrational tasks and management reporting.|Irina Zinovieva is a senior researcher at Free University of Brussels. She did research and consultancy work for public authorities and private companies such as the European Commission; Council of Europe; Brussels Regional Government; Unisys Corporation, London office; Saville & Holdsworth Ltd, Paris Office. She is an author of three books and more than 20 articles and book chapters.

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