Vikas Kanungo - e-Government & m-Government Expert

Current Affiliations

• Consultant, GICT, The World Bank
  
• Chairman - The Society for promotion of e-Government
• Chief Editor - Government @ 24/7 Fortnightly newsletter for e-Government Community
• Founder Director - mGovWorld , Global Observatory and Knowledge Portal on Mobile Government
• Moderator and founder member - e-Governance, a global group of e-government experts, civil servants and political representatives from Asia and Europe.
• Co-founder - Indo-EU group for development of Knowledge Management Repository of best practices on e-government and social inclusion.

You can contact me for...

• Strategic consulting on e-Government and mobile government - Consulting and advice to e-Governmenr solution providers, government agencies, multilateral development agencies and CSOs on creating strategies for effective e-Government plans.
• Public Speaking and Training - Training on planning , implementing and monitoring e-Government and m-Government projects. I am available as a speaker , panel member , moderator on e-Government , mobile- government , ICT for development and MDG issues. I have trained many government officers, Industry participants and professionals on e-Government.
• Reserach and short term onsite consulting - Help clients in market studies and key trends in South Asian markets especially India, evaluation of existing e-Government and ICT projects, country reports on ICT and e-Government and community development

Career Summary & Key Skills

Fifteen years of experience in managing ICT with specific experience of 8 years in e-government training and consulting and 6 years in e-Government /knowledge management initiatives. Leadership roles in ICT for Development, e-governance issues, founding ICT based social initiatives, supporting social entrepreneurs in ICT for Development, Corporate Head of Relations, Head of Country Operations, Project Manager, Trainer and Consultant. Advisory roles in development of communities of practice on ICT and e-Governance , member of various international online communities on Gender issues, ICT for development and e-governance. Have authored many papers for presentation at various national and international events.

An excellent track record on ICT strategy consulting to govt. and defense departments, event management, PR, mentoring of civil society organizations, project and client management as well as developing new initiatives. Excellent communication, leadership, deal structuring, negotiation, and problem solving skills.

Skill Areas

• Information Society, the new economy, the network (digital) economy
• e-government and mobile government
• Regional development
• Socio-economic development
• Socio-economic and market impact assessment of Information and Communication technologies
• Management of change: organizational (sectoral, regional) strategies for adapting to, and exploiting, the Information Society
• ICTs as tools in socio-economic and regional development
• Education and training
• Distance and continuing/open education
• Skills and competence development
• Multi-disciplinary studies
• Project planning, implementation, monitoring, management and evaluation
• Institutional development, organization and management, and institution building
• Human resources development
• Policy assessment and evidence-based policy development and implementation

Publications / Presentations

• “e-Government research priorities for achieving vision 2020 ” , keynote address delivered during Consultation Workshop on e-Government Research organized by European Commission on October 26-27, 2005 in Brussels, Denmark
• “ e-Government foresight for research priorities” , presentation delivered during the e-Government Research and Policy Challenges organized by IPTS, European Commission in Seville, Spain on October 2-3,2005.
• “India’s Roadmap for transformation (Analysis of national e-Governance Plan of India”.
• “e-Government development in SAARC region- Comparative status of various countries -A paper presented during International Conference on Best Practices of e-Government and e-city: Vision, Innovations and Opportunities from 13-16 June 2005 at Ipoh City , Malaysia. The conference was organized by IPOH City Council with the support of Asia IT&C programme of European Commission.
• “e-Government strategic framework for developing countries” , a paper presented during international conference on building partnerships for ICT implementations organized by Bellanet – SAP Nepal in Kathmandu , Nepal in march 2005.
• Electronic Public Services- Roadmap for technology framework , ( Journal of 8th National conference on e-governance organized by Department of IT and DARPG , Govt. of India –2005)
• “ Citizen Centric Governance in India”, published in ASSOCHAM – WORLD Bank vision document titled e-governance, Transforming India ( Year 2003)
• Societal, Ethical and Legal Implication of ICT (ICT Policy workshop for CSOs by GIPI India) and National conference on e-Governance held in West Godawari District, 2004.
• Nations in Cyber Era – “International Conference on Politics and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications (PISTA 2004) and the International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications. Orlando, US
• E-Governance in India-an Implementation Roadmap – “National conference on e-Business solutions (6th March 2002 by Institute of Electronics and telecommunications Engineers)
• Balancing Gender Equity in Knowledge Society – International Seminar on Women in e-Governance organized by Annamalai University, November 2004.

My email ID vikaskanungo at egovindia dot org