Tomasz Janowski

Background

About Tomasz Janowski

Tomasz Janowski is Associate Professor at Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland; Invited Professor at University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria; Associate Editor of Government Information Quarterly; Board Member, Digital Government Society; and Advisory Board Member, Shanghai Institute for Digital Governance. Previously, he was co-editor-in-chief of Government Information Quarterly; head of the Department of Informatics in Management at Gdańsk University of Technology; founder and head of the United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV) in Portugal; Senior Research Fellow at the UNU International Institute on Software Technology (UNU-IIST) in Macau SAR, China; Invited Professor at the University of Minho in Portugal and Università Della Svizzera Italiana in Switzerland; co-chair of the e-Government Interest Group at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C); member of two evaluation panels of the European Commission’s Joint Research Center (JRC); chief jury of the Saudi e-Government Award; chief jury of the Omani Sultan Qaboos Award for Excellence in e-Government; founder of the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV) and coordinator of the first ten editions of ICEGOV; etc. His research interests include digital government, sustainable digital transformation, and digital transformation for sustainability. He is an author or co-author of over 270 academic publications and project or policy reports. He developed and led projects funded by various international organizations, including CTO, European Commission, IADB, IDRC, ITU, OSCE, UNDP, UNESCO, the World Bank. These include projects in post-conflict and developing countries, e.g. Afghanistan – digital government strategy and capacity for the Afghan government, funded by the World Bank; Colombia – establishing the Government Chief Information Officer (GCIO) function for the Colombian government, funded by UNDP; Vanuatu – mobile government strategy and a toolkit for Small Island Developing States, funded by the Commonwealth Secretariat, etc. Lately, he coordinates the "Digital transformation for university-born innovation and entrepreneurship” (DIGIMPACT.EU) project funded by the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT). He holds Habilitation in Management Sciences (equivalent) from the Gdańsk University of Technology; Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Warwick, UK; and MSc in Mathematics from the University of Gdańsk, Poland.