Professor Rahul De's paper "Caste Structures and eGovernance in a Developing Country" received the Outstanding Paper Award for the most Interdisciplinary and Innovative Research contribution, on September 3, 2009 at the 8th International Conference on EGOV at Linz, Austria.
The paper had been nominated in two categories and was awarded under Category 1, which awards the interdisciplinary paper with the most out-of-the-box and forward-looking idea and concept.
The citation in part reads as follows:
"The author presents a very timely and well developed research discussion on the impact of eGovernance in developing countries. The article forces the reader to carefully consider existing "taken-for-granted-assumptions" such as that eGovernance automatically leads to more openness, transparency, equality and inclusion. The author thus contributes with a truly forward looking perspective concerning the impact of eGovernment on social structures in developing contexts. Finally, the research is innovative in its application of structuration theory as an interpretive lens for understanding the impact of IT in a developing context."
More details: http://www.egov-conference.org/egov-2009/outstanding-paper-awards
Professor Rahul De' is a Professor at IIMB in the area of Quantitative Methods & Information Systems, and the Hewlett-Packard Chair Professor in ICT for Sustainable Economic Development. He has a BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, an MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, and a PhD from the Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburg, USA.
Dr De's research interests are in E-Government Systems and applications of ICT for development. He also works in applied Artificial Intelligence, particularly in the areas of Multi-Agent Modelling and Ant Colony Optimisation.
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Professor Rahul De's paper "Caste Structures and eGovernance in a Developing Country" received the Outstanding Paper Award for the most Interdisciplinary and Innovative Research contribution, on September 3, 2009 at the 8th International Conference on EGOV at Linz, Austria.
The paper had been nominated in two categories and was awarded under Category 1, which awards the interdisciplinary paper with the most out-of-the-box and forward-looking idea and concept.
The citation in part reads as follows:
"The author presents a very timely and well developed research discussion on the impact of eGovernance in developing countries. The article forces the reader to carefully consider existing "taken-for-granted-assumptions" such as that eGovernance automatically leads to more openness, transparency, equality and inclusion. The author thus contributes with a truly forward looking perspective concerning the impact of eGovernment on social structures in developing contexts. Finally, the research is innovative in its application of structuration theory as an interpretive lens for understanding the impact of IT in a developing context."
More details: http://www.egov-conference.org/egov-2009/outstanding-paper-awards
Professor Rahul De' is a Professor at IIMB in the area of Quantitative Methods & Information Systems, and the Hewlett-Packard Chair Professor in ICT for Sustainable Economic Development. He has a BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, an MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, and a PhD from the Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburg, USA.
Dr De's research interests are in E-Government Systems and applications of ICT for development. He also works in applied Artificial Intelligence, particularly in the areas of Multi-Agent Modelling and Ant Colony Optimisation.
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