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Ahmed Imran
Ahmed Imran is an Information System (IS) researcher and
practitioner whose research interest largely emerged from his
personal experience. This includes ICT adoption in the public
sector, E-Government and ICT in developing countries. His PhD
research aims to gain an in-depth understanding of impediments and
the associated issues related to ICT adoption in public sectors
within a LDC environment.
Ahmed has come from a defence background and was commissioned in the
Corps of Signals of the Bangladesh Army in Dec 1987. He has
experience in command, management, and teaching faculty while in
army. His special skill and interest in Information Technology has
led to a range of challenging experiences which include serving as a
Staff Officer in the Military Secretary’s Branch at Army
Headquarters and Staff Officer (Personnel) in UNIKOM HQs (United Nations Iraq Kuwait Observer Mission). He also spent 9
years in the IT field, including OIC (Officer in Charge)/
Instructor, Computer Wing of School of Signals and IT Administrator
of Defence Services Command and Staff College, Mirpur. During these
tenures, he made substantial contributions to the computerisation of
the institution and the Bangladesh Army as a whole. Ahmed retired
voluntarily from the Army in 2002 as a Major, to pursue higher
studies and to develop his career in the IS field.
Ahmed obtained a Masters in Information Technology from the
University of New South Wales (UNSW) with distinction and attended a
number of professional courses at home and abroad. He also obtained
a vacation research scholarship from Australian Defence Force
Academy (ADFA) and actively participated on a number of national
research projects like E-government Services Uptake for Market
Segmentation, IT History of the Australian Government, AJIS Special
Issue Study: The State of IS in Australasia, Value from ICT: Key
Management Strategies for Australian Organizations, Department of
Communications, Commonwealth of Australia etc at the Australian National University (ANU).
Recently part of Ahmed's research has been accepted for an applied
research project " eGovernment capacity building through knowledge transfer and best practice development in Bangladesh"
by competitive AusAID Pubic Sector Linkage Program (PSLP) to be
implemented in Bangladesh by the National Centre of Information System Research
(NCISR) at ANU. This is likely to be a significant contribution for the Bangladesh
Public service in terms of capacity building and knowledge transfer
in the eGovernment area which also have broader application in other least-developed countries.
Ahmed is currently working as the Project Manager of this PSLP
eGov project. He is also a member of several professional bodies
in the IS/ IT field including Australian Computer Society (ACS),
Association of Information Systems (AIS) and was elected as Director
of Information Management at Association of Pacific Rim
Universities Doctoral Students Network (APRU DSN) executive
committee. Ahmed has published his research in the
Journal of Business Systems, Governance and Ethics (JBSGE) and presented papers at a
number of top International conferences in Information System
discipline.
Professor Shirley Gregor,
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(Supervisor)
Shirley Gregor is the ANU Endowed Chair in Information Systems at
the Australian National University, Canberra, where she heads the
National Centre for Information Systems Research and is a member of
the School of Accounting and Business Information Systems.
Professor Gregor's current research interests include the adoption
and strategic use of information and communications technologies,
the philosophy of technology, intelligent systems and human-computer
interface issues. Dr Gregor has led several large projects in the
e-commerce area funded by the Meat Research Corporation, the
Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts,
and the Australian Research Council.
Professor Gregor spent a number of years in the computing industry
in Australia and the United Kingdom before beginning an academic
career. She obtained her Ph.D. in Information Systems from the
University of Queensland. Dr Gregor's publications include 4 edited
books, 15 book chapters and over 100 papers in conferences and
journals such as MIS Quarterly, Journal of the Association of
Information Systems, International Journal of Electronic Commerce,
International Journal of Human Computer Studies, CACM, European
Journal of Information Systems and Information Technology & People.
Professor Gregor was inaugural President of the Australasian
Association of Information Systems 2002-2003. She is currently
Region 3 (Asia/Pacific) Councillor for the Association of
Information Systems and Director of the Professional Standards Board
of the Australian Computer Society. She is a also a Senior Editor
for MIS Quarterly.
Professor Gregor was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in
the Queen's Birthday Honours list in June 2005 for services as an
educator and researcher in the field of information systems and in
the development of applications for electronic commerce in the
agribusiness sector. Also, in 2005 she was elected as a Fellow of
the Australian Computer Society
Dr Walter Fernandez
(Advisor)
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Walter Fernandez is a Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the
National Centre for Information Systems Research at the College of
Business and Economics, the Australian National University. He moved
into academe in 2003 after a successful career designing,
developing, managing and implementing innovative information systems
in the corporate sector. His two decades of work in industry, half
of that time as a project manager, provides a practical perspective
to his research work. Since 1998 Walter has been managing and/or
researching multimillion-dollar, highly complex projects involving
multiple firms and multiple teams. Dr Fernandez’s research focus
include: management of major projects, interorganizational/interdisciplinary
collaborative projects, effects of trust-based decisions on project
cost, managing conflict and complexity in major projects and
achieving value from ICT investments. Dr Fernandez is an expert on
grounded theory methodology; he has delivered seminars and workshops
in several countries on this topic and is the Inaugural Chair of the
Association of Information Systems Special Interest Group on
Grounded Theory Methodology.
Dr Dennis Hart
(Advisor)
Dr Dennis Hart holds degrees in physics, wine science,
philosophy and information systems, and is currently a part-time
senior lecturer in the School of Accounting and Business Information
Systems at the Australian National University. Prior to his academic
career he was, for 15 years, an instructor officer in the Royal
Australian Navy, retiring in 1992 with the rank of Commander. In
addition to his academic activities, Dr Hart also manages and
runs the 20 acre vineyard on his and his partner's property near
Yass, NSW. Other interests include wine (both the making and tasting
of it), improving his ability to play his baby grand piano, hi-fi
systems, riding his motorbike, and reading non-fiction, usually of a
philosophical or historical bent.
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