[share_ebook] Developing Successful ICT Strategies: Competitive Advantages in a Global Knowledge-driven Society

Comprehensively covering ICT research and applications in such diverse fields as healthcare, distance learning, government, and environmental activities, this Premier Reference Source will enable libraries to support research in a variety of disciplines that interact with ICT and its impact on the development of societies. 

About the Author
Hakikur Rahman (PhD) has been working as the national project coordinator of the Sustainable Development Networking Programme (SDNP) of Bangladesh, a global initiative of UNDP in Bangladesh since December 1999. He is the secretary of South Asia Foundation Bangladesh Chapter, an initiative on regional cooperation in South Asian region. Before joining SDNP he had been working as the director, computer division, Bangladesh Open University. Besides other activities he has written several books on computer education for the informal sector and distance education. He is the founder-chair of the Internet Society, Bangladesh Chapter, the executive director of the BAERIN Foundation, editor of Monthly Computer Bichitra, principal and member secretary of the ICMS Computer College, head examiner (Computer) of the Bangladesh Technical Education Board and actively involved in establishing an ICT-based distance education university in Bangladesh. Graduating from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (1981), he received his Master's of Engineering from the American University of Beirut (1986) and completed his PhD in computer engineering from Ansted University (UK, 2001).