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Dr Baharul Islam is the Chairman and CEO of South Asian Regional Development Gateway (SARDEG), a regional ICT for Development portal which is funded by the World Bank initiated Development Gateway based in USA. He is also a Visiting Professor of Law at the NEF Law College in Guwahati (India). Dr Islam has been working in the area of Information Technology policy and legal issues, Rural Development, Poverty Reduction, teaching and researching information society and emerging knowledge economy for more than a decade. He taught at the National Institute of Technology, Silchar (India), Kigali Institute of Technology (Rwanda) and later appointed as an Associate Professor at the University of Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) in Nov 2003. He has a doctorate from the Tezpur University (India), Post-Doctorate from Asian Institute of Technology (Bangkok) which focused on new technologies in education system. He has double Masters degrees from the University of Strathclyde (UK) where he did his LLM in Telecom and Information Technology Laws and from Aligarh University (India) where he studied Applied Linguistics. Dr Islam started his teaching career as a Lecturer at West Silchar College, Assam (1992) and then continued working as a faculty at various institutions like Gauhati University (1993), Diphu Govt College (1993-94), Regional Engineering College, now NIT, Silchar (1994-2002). He became a Reader at NCERT, New Delhi in 2002. In 2000-2001 he was deputed as a Sr. Lecturer at Kigali Institute of Technology, Rwanda. He became an Associate Professor of TEFL at Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia) in 2002-2004. He has published widely with more than eight books and more than 30 papers/articles to his credit. He is a public speaker, debater, and communication specialist. He participated at the BBC World Debate in 2006 that brought him to international development communication limelight. He has written the chapter on ICT and Poverty Reduction for the first Encyclopedia of Digital Governance being published in 2006. Dr Islam started working as a Consultant for UNESCO in Cambodia in 1998. Later he worked on ICT Policy, Plan and e-Government Strategy with the UN Commission for Africa (UNECA) during 2003-2006. He developed e-Govt Strategies and National ICT plans for The Gambia, Sierra Leone, and regional groups like EAC and COMESA. In 2006-2007, Dr Islam was a Consultant with the UNESCAP, Bangkok to conduct the ICT Access Survey in the Asia-Pacific region. CONTACTS: Tel/Fax: +91 361- 2229509 | Res: +91 361 2235655 | Cell: +91 9435072356 Email: drbahar@gmail.com ; islamb@un.org | Mauritius Cell: +230 7595 642
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