Handbook of Research on E-government Readiness for Information and Service Exchange

Hakikur Rahman (PhD) is the principal of the Institute of Computer Management & Science (ICMS), and the president of the ICMS Foundation. He is currently serving Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University as an adjunct faculty member, and the South Asia Foundation Bangladesh Chapter as the secretary. He served as the executive director (CEO) of the Sustainable Development Networking Foundation (SDNF) from January 2007 to December 2007, the transformed entity of the Sustainable Development Networking Programme (SDNP) in Bangladesh where he has worked as the national project coordinator since December 1999. SDNP is a global initiative of UNDP and it completed its activity in Bangladesh on December 31, 2006. Before joining SDNP he worked as the director of the computer division at Bangladesh Open University. Graduating from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (1981), he completed his master's degree in engineering from the American University of Beirut (1986) and completed his PhD in computer engineering from the Ansted University (UK, 2001).