People

Project Partners

Oxford Internet Institute

• Professor William Dutton - William H. Dutton is Director of the Oxford Internet Institute and Professor of Internet Studies at the University of Oxford, where he is also a Fellow of Balliol College. Until joining Oxford in July 2002, he was a Professor in the The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. In the UK, prior to directing the OII, Bill was a Fulbright Scholar (1986-87), and later the National Director of the UK's successful Programme on Information and Communication Technologies (PICT) from 1993 to 1996. He has been conducting research on the social implications of information and communication technologies (ICTs) like the Internet since 1974. In the area of eGovernment, Bill was one of the principal investigators on the first large-scale assessment of the impacts of computing in American local governments and has continued to research ICTs in the public sector. Among his recent publications related to eGovernment are The Management of Information Systems (Columbia Un Press 1981); Computers and Politics (Columbia Un Press 1982); Modeling as Negotiating (Ablex 1985) and Transforming Enterprise , edited with Brian Kahin and others (MIT Press, 2004). His most recent contributions include: ‘The Cyber Trust Tension in eGovernment: Balancing Identity, Privacy, Security', Information Policy 10(2005): 1-11.
  
  
• Professor Helen Margetts - Helen Margetts is a Professor of Society and the Internet in the Oxford Internet Institute and a Professorial Fellow at Mansfield College, University of Oxford. Previously, she was Professor of Political Science and Director of the School of Public Policy at UCL (1999-2004); lecturer in politics at Birkbeck College (1994-1999); research officer at LSE (1991-1994) and a systems analyst in the private sector (1984-1989). She has a BSc in Mathematics (University of Bristol, 1983), MSc in Politics (LSE, 1990) and PhD in Government (LSE, 1996). She has worked as a principal investigator on several studies for the UK National Audit Office (including Government on the Web, 1999; Government on the Web 2, 2002; Cultural Barriers to eGovernment, 2002; and Incentivization of eGovernment, 2003) and for the ESRC (including Public Private Partnerships in Central Government ICT Systems, 2001-3 and the London Elections Study, 2000 and 2004). She is the author of Information Technology in Government: Britain and America (London: Routledge, 1999), several major research reports commissioned by government bodies and over 60 articles and book chapters on policy-related subjects.
  
  
• Rebecca Eynon - Rebecca Eynon graduated in Psychology with Statistics from Royal Holloway, University of London in 1995 and gained a distinction in her Masters in Mass Communications from the University of Leicester in 1997. She completed her PhD at the Department of Sociology, City University, London in 2003 and continued to develop her interests in the use of ICTs in Higher Education as an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow. Rebecca has also worked at the Centre for Mass Communication Research, University of Leicester, the School of Education, University of Birmingham and the Department of Sociology and Cultural Studies at Birmingham. Her current research interests include organisational culture and eGovernment.
  

gov3

• Graham Walker - Graham Walker has an international reputation as one of the world's most insightful and dynamic eGovernment policy makers.  From December 2003 to May 2004, Graham was seconded to the UK Government's Efficiency Review team where he led work with transactional departments to deliver service improvements and cash savings from the UK's eGovernment investment.  From May to July 2004 he was Deputy Director of the UK Government's Efficiency Team.  Since founding gov3, he has gained further ‘first hand' experience of eGov programme and policy development in Canada, South Africa, Finland, Slovenia and Romania.

  Graham's most relevant experience includes:

  • being the UK Government representative on the EU EPAN eGovernment Working Party.
  • Having the responsibility for developing and delivering on the UK's market environment, universal accn broadband, digital inclusion and eGovernment
    ess, broadband and eGovernment targets, and advised Ministers and the e-Envoy on the development and delivery of the UK Government's successful strategies
  • building a large network on contacts in government and across all sectors in the UK and overseas, representing the UK Government in the US, Europe, and at the OECD
  • developing an approach to international e-economy and eGovernment benchmarking that underpinned the world's first e-summit of G7 e-Envoy equivalents and provided a platform for the Prime Minister to report positively against his target of making the UK the world's best environment for e-commerce.
    
    
• Chris Parker - After a 14 year career as a high-flying civil servant in the UK government, Chris founded his own business – gov3 limited – in September 2004. In the five years previous to this, he had been Deputy e-Envoy to the UK’s Prime Minister, and Chief Operating Officer of the Office of the e-Envoy. In this role, he led the team at the heart of the UK government which developed and delivered one of the world’s most successful strategies to create a Knowledge Society. The strategy successfully moved the UK economy from being one which, in 1999, lagged behind the other major economies in embracing the Internet, to one which is a world leader.
  After successfully meeting all the stretching targets which had been set by the Prime Minister in 1999, Chris wound up the Office of the e-Envoy in 2004. Along with other senior civil servants from the Office of the e-Envoy, in September 2004 Chris launched gov3 - providing strategic advice and support to Government leaders responsible for driving IT-enabled transformation, within the public sector and across the wider economy. Since its creation, gov3 has:
  • supported the Finnish government on its public sector productivity review
  • been engaged by the Hong Kong government to develop a roadmap for customer-focused service transformation
  • helped the Danish government to develop an e-business support strategy for SMEs
  • supported the Slovenian government to implement global best practice approaches to boosting home ownership of computers
  • been appointed by the Turkish Government, with lead partner Peppers and Rogers (Turkey) to undertake a six month strategy development process for e-Turkey
  • assisted a number of major global IT companies on development of their public sector strategies
  • worked with the British Council to develop its knowledge society support strategy for developing nations
  • provided support to the United Nations on development of its e-Africa strategy
  • published its first White Paper, sponsored by Intel, on government best practice in building a digitally-inclusive society (available at www.gov3.co.uk/whitepapers).
    
    
• Elizabeth Muller - Elizabeth Muller is Gov3 Director of Emerging Markets.  She is also Executive Director of the Gov3 non-profit Foundation.
  Elizabeth has designed and implemented projects for public sector clients developing new policies and strategies for the information society.  She led the work for the Turkish government on the development of a new governance structure for their “e-Transformation” agenda.  Elizabeth also managed the initiation and development of a Government Assisted PC Purchase program that packages PCs, an Internet connection and training for citizens in Michigan.  She is currently leading the strategic design of the government portal for Abu Dhabi.
  As Executive Director of the Gov3 Foundation, Elizabeth is working closely with developing countries to build the knowledge base for eGovernment and modernization in the developing world.
  Elizabeth joined Gov3 after 5 years at the OECD where she was responsible for projects on eGovernment and the information society.  In this capacity she worked with 30 OECD countries, leading the work on organizational change, citizen centricity, and the business case for eGovernment.  She was also responsible for OECD co-operation on eGovernment with countries in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America.  Elizabeth continues to work closely with the OECD, and recently authored the OECD chapter on IT Policy developments and trends for the OECD IT Outlook 2006.

Tilburg

• Professor J.E.J.(Corien) Prins - Prof. dr. Corien Prins holds a degree in law as well as Slavic languages and literature from Leiden University. As of 1986 she worked as a researcher with the Department of Law and Informatics, Leiden University as well as the Institute for Central and East European Law,t Leiden University. Subsequesntly, she was a visiting professor at Hastings Law School, University of California, San Francisco (1993). In 1994 she was appointed professor of Law and Informatization at Tilburg University. Here she chairs the Center for Law, Public Administration and Informatization (CRBI: www.crbi.nl). Corien Prins is a member of the programme committee of the National Programme on Information Technology and Law (ITeR) of the Dutch Scientific Council (NWO). Also, she is member of the Gebiedsbestuur Maatschappij en Gedragswetenschappen – MaGW/NWO. Corien Prins is co-editor in chief of The Electronic Communication Law Review (Kluwer Law International), co-editor in chief of the loose leaf International Computer Law (Matthew Bender), editor-in-chief of the Dutch 'Handboek Informatietechnologie' (Sdu) and a member of the editorial board of other national and international journals (among them Information and Communication Technology Law; Electronic Journal of Comparative Law). Her present research topics include (international) regulatory questions of ICT, electronic commerce, consumer protection in an ICT-society, biometric technology, eGovernment, privacy and anonymity, identity and personality issues. On the identity/personality/anonymity issues she published several national and international articles, co-authored in 1996 a pioneering Dutch publication on legal implications biometric technology, co-authored a report for the Rathenau Institute on virtual identification (2003), co-edited as well as wrote two chapters for the book ‘Anonymity and the Law. Tensions and Dimensions’ (Asser Press, 2003). More in general, issues of electronic signatures, encryption and electronic authentication are a key theme on the agenda of the Tilburg research Center.
  
  
• Dr C.M.K.C. (Collette) Cuijpers - Dr. Colette Cuijpers (1976) studied European and Dutch Law at Tilburg University. After graduation she began her PhD studies at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society. She received her PhD for a study on the possibility and desirability of implementation of the European privacy directive into the Dutch Civil Code. Besides carrying out research relating to the topic of her thesis, she participated in research programmes in the field of liability law, eGovernment, intellectual property rights and domain names. She is the author of a book concerning liability of the government for electronic communications and was editor and co-author of a book concerning the processing of personal data in the case of a merger or fusion or within multinational concerns. She is also an editor of a Dutch journal concerning computer law and of a journal concerning privacy legislation. At present, she is participating in a research project headed by Dr. Bert-Jaap Koops concerning the consequences of ICT-developments and the effect they have on the shift of power between employers and employees. Whether these developments lead to the necessity to change the concept of access to information as laid down in several Dutch laws, is the topic of another research programme she is currently involved in. She is also participating in research concerning the judicial consequences of an electronic government transaction portal.
  
  
• Dr. J. (Sjaak) Nouwt - Dr. J. (Sjaak) Nouwt is Assistant Professor at Tilburg University, Faculty of Law, where he is a member of the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT). He studied Dutch Law at Tilburg University from 1978 to 1985. He was a University Lecturer in Computers and Law at the Faculty of Law at Tilburg University from 1985 to 1987. At present, he teaches courses in Computers and Law and, in particular on Privacy and Data Protection, and Government Information Law. These courses are given to both Dutch and foreign students. In 1997, Sjaak Nouwt published his doctoral thesis on the use of information technology in the health care system and the protection of medical data. He has written several other articles on privacy and data protection issues. He is editor-in-chief of a Dutch journal on Data Protection in Health Care (Journaal Privacy Gezondheidszorg) and also member of the editorial staff of other journals, text-books, and loose-leaf publications on privacy and data protection. He also coordinates, among other things, the Privacynetwork research program on Reasonable Expectations of Privacy, and the development of e-learning programs for legal information skill requirements. Sjaak Nouwt is also editor-in-chief of the Dutch Internet Law Library.
  
  
• Dr. Maurice Schellekens -Dr. Maurice Schellekens is a researcher and lecturer at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society, that is part of the Law Faculty of Tilburg University. His research topics include legal aspects of modern biotechnology, intellectual property law, and regulation of new technologies. In the last few years, Maurice published extensively on information and communication technology (hereinafter: ICT) and law. Subjects include: starting points for regulation of ICT, intellectual property in the information society, reliability of Internet information, the legal status of authentication technology and on line dispute resolution. In 2001, he defended his thesis about liability of ISPs for copyright infringement and criminal offences on the Internet. Dr. Schellekens lectures intellectual property law both at Tilburg University and Eindhoven University of Technology. He graduated both in law (Maastricht University) and computer science (Eindhoven University of Technology).

Murcia

• Julián Valero Torrijos, Ph.D., Lecturer of Administrative Law at the University of Murcia (Spain). In 2001 he was awarded the "Marcelo Martínez Alcubilla" Prize by the Spanish National Institute for Public Administration (INAP) for his research on public administration. He is the author of the most relevant book on legal aspects of eGovernment in Spain entitled 'El régimen jurídico de la e-Administración' (The legal system for e-Administration), as well as numerous articles on the relationships between technology and Administrative Law. Currently he is teaching ICT Law at the Faculty of Law at Murcia University and he is managing an international online course on the legal implications of data protection. He is also actively involved in two research projects in these fields: Interdisciplinary study of the responsibilities of ISP. Second generation problems: the limits of technological neutrality, financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology, and Online interconnection between the Land Registry and the Water Office: legal and technological aspects, financed by the Euromediterranean Institute of Hydrotecnics-Council of Europe.

CRID

• Professor Cécile de Terwangne has an MD in Law (University of Louvain), a PhD in Law (University of Namur) and an LLM in European and International Law (European Universitary Institute of Florence). She is a Professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Namur (Belgium). She teaches courses in Computers and Human Rights, and Data Protection. She is director of the post-graduate Program in Law and Management of Information and Communication Technologies at the University of Namur. She is head of the Freedoms in the Information Society Unit of the Research Centre for Computer and Law (CRID – University of Namur). She has participated in numerous European and national research projects in the fields of data protection, privacy and ICT, freedom of information, eGovernement, etc. She is director of the “Revue du droit des technologies de l'information" (R.D.T.I.). She is the author of Création et gestion d’un site Internet communal. Guide juridique (Bruxelles, U.V.C.W., 2000); Vie privée: nouveaux risques et enjeux. Privacy: new risks and opportunities (Cahier du Crid n°13, Story-Scientia, 1997); Towards a Legal Framework for a Diffusion Policy for Data Held by the Public Sector (Kluwer, 1994, ed. with H. Burkert and Y. Poullet); and has published numerous articles in national and international journals.
  
  
• Cristina Dos Santos is a researcher at the Research Centre for Computer and Law (CRID– University of Namur) in the ‘Freedoms in the Information Society Unit’. She has a Masters Degree in European Law (University of Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne) and an European Masters in Social Sciences (University of Florence – Italy). She has participated in a number of European and Belgium research projects in the field of Privacy and Data Protection and eGovernment, and in the field of the “Flexicurity” concept (European Social and Labour Law) with LENTIC (University of Liège).