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Frank Bannister is an Associate Professor of Information Systems and Head of the Department of Information Systems in Trinity College. Dublin. Prior to becoming an academic in 1995, he worked in the Irish civil service and for Price Waterhouse (now PwC) as a management consultant. His research interests include e-government, e-democracy, IT value and evaluation and online privacy and trust. He is editor of the Electronic Journal of e-Government and is on the editorial boards of a number of other journals. He is Co-Director of the Permanent student Group on e-Government in the European Group for Public Administration. Frank is a Fellow of Trinity College, a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants in Ireland, a Fellow of the Irish Computer Society and a Chartered Engineer.

Regina Connolly is a Senior Lecturer in Information Systems at Dublin City University Business School, Dublin, Ireland and is programme director of the MSC in Electronic Commerce. In her undergraduate degree she received the Kellogg Award for outstanding dissertation and her MSc degree was awarded with distinction. She was conferred with a PhD in Information Systems from Trinity College Dublin. Her research interests include eGovernment, IT value and evaluation in the public sector, online trust and privacy issues, website service quality and strategic information systems. She is editor of the Journal of Internet Commerce and is Associate Editor of a number of other journals. She has served on the expert eCommerce advisory group for Dublin Chamber of Commerce, which has advised national government on eCommerce strategic planning.

Sandeep Purao is on the faculty at the College of IST, Penn State University. As part of his research, he designs and evaluates IT-based solutions for business problems. He has 100+ publications in academic journals and conferences; and has done consulting assignments for several organizations including financial institutions and software houses. He holds a PhD in Management Information Systems from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and has prior training in management, accounting and law.

Dr Kevin C. Desouza is the director of the Metropolitan Institute and an associate professor at the Center for Public Administration and Policy at Virginia Tech. In the private sector, he founded the Engaged Enterprise and its think-tank, the Institute for Engaged Business Research. [End Page 106] The Engaged Enterprise was a global strategy consulting firm with expertise in the areas of knowledge management, crisis management, strategic deployment of information systems, and government and competitive intelligence assignments. His work has also been featured by a number of publications such as Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, Businessweek, Washington Internet Daily, Computerworld, KM Review, Government Health IT, and Human Resource Management International Digest.

Jonathan Becker received Bachelors in Finance and International Politics from the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, and is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in Information Sciences and Technology from the same institution. His research interests include organizational learning across information technology (IT) projects, and stakeholder management is large public sector projects.

Nripendra P. Rana is a PhD candidate at School of Business and Economics, Swansea University, UK. He holds a BSc in Mathematics (Hons.), an MCA, an MTech, and an MPhil degree from Indian universities. He also holds an MBA with distinction from Swansea University, UK. He is currently working in the field of e-Government adoption and diffusion as a part of his PhD research. He has varied work experience of teaching in the area of Computer Engineering and Applications at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He also possesses a good experience in the field of software development. He can be reached at nrananp@gmail.com.

Michael D. Williams is a Professor in the School of Business and Economics at Swansea University in the UK. He holds a BSc from the CNAA, an MEd from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD from the University of Sheffield. He is a member of the British Computer Society and is registered as a Chartered Engineer. Prior to entering academia Professor Williams spent twelve years developing and implementing ICT systems in both public and private sectors in a variety of domains including finance, telecommunications, manufacturing, and local government, and since entering academia, has acted as...

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