International Conference on ICT Management for Global Competitiveness  and Economic Growth in Emerging Economies - ICTM 2012
17-18 September 2012


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Anza Akram
Dr. Anza Akram


Dr. Anza Akram, doctorate (private) in Management Information Systems Sciences, is presently running her consulting firm, Anza Management Consulting Firm.  She researches and consults in the area of Management Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, Knowledge Management Systems, Management, Security, Privacy and TeleDemocracy to discover and develop new business processes and applications. She presents her work in various national and international conferences and her work is published in various conference proceedings and CIIMA journal. She also hold M.B.A. in Finance from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan and M.B.A. in Management Information Systems from California State University San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California. Before starting her consulting business she also worked in the industry for few years and taught in various Universities and Community Colleges.
S. AlHinai
S. AlHinai


Yousuf S. AlHinai is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the , College of Economics and Political Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. He is also the Assistant Dean for Training and Community Service in the college of economics. He completed his PhD in Information Systems from The University of Melbourne, Australia. Dr. AlHinai is experienced in both teaching, research and administration. He has a number of published and under-review conference and journal research papers. He continues to work with a recognized network of scholars and researchers in different countries.

Mazen Ali
Dr. Mazen Ali


Dr. Mazen Ali is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Systems, the University of Bahrain, Kingdom of Bahrain. He completed his MSc and PhD in Information Systems from the University of Melbourne, Australia. Prior to that, he obtained his Bsc in Business Information Systems from the Department of Information Systems, University of Bahrain. His main research areas are electronic commerce, adoption of information technology in developing countries, inter-organisational information systems, enterprise systems, knowledge management and supply chain management.
Antonio Diaz-Andrade
Antonio Diaz-Andrade


Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand: Antonio is a Senior Lecturer in Business Information Systems at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. His main research interest is in Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D). His work has been published in international journals. He is currently serving as the Australasian Vice-Chair for IFIP 9.4 – Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries.
Wojciech Bożejko
Wojciech Bożejko


Wojciech Bożejko is an assistant professor at Wrocław University of Technology. He obtained M.Sc. in University of Wroclaw, Institute of Computer Science in 1999, Ph.D. in Wroclaw University of Technology, Institute of Computer Engineering, Control and Robotics in 2003 and D.Sc. (habilitation) in Wrocław University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics, in 2011. He is an author of over 120 papers (and over 50 citations on ISI Web of Knowledge) in journals and conference proceedings from the field of parallel processing, scheduling and optimization. He is also a reviewer of journals in this field: European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Computers & Industrial Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology. He is interested in parallel algorithms, GPU computing, scheduling and discrete optimization. He is also a qualified musician. He graduated (M.A.) from the Academy of Music in Wroclaw in a specialization of piano.
Łukasz Haromszeki
dr Łukasz Haromszeki


Department of Human Resources Management in University of Economics in Wroclaw.
Interdisciplinary trained specialist of human resource management. Research interests include organizational leadership, management by values, strategic human resource management, employee motivation, activity leaders in local communities. Author and co-author of over 30 scientific publications, popular and professional publications. Consultant and teacher training of projects and investment. Traveler.

Jolanta Kowal
dr Jolanta Kowal


Dr Jolanta Kowal is Vice Rector and a professor at Wroclaw College of Management "Edukacja" in Wroclaw, and a tutor and researcher at the Institute of Psychology of Wroclaw University. She is a Member of scientific associations PTS and PTPA accredited by IAAP. A researcher and lecturer, Jolanta is the author of over 60 scientific publications (published among others in University College London, C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, PWN and ENETEIA) and delivers lectures and seminars on methodology of management, applied statistics in socio-economic, psychological and multicultural research. She reviewed also papers and books for(among others) ECMLG PROCEEDINGS 2010-2011 (ACI, Reading, UK), Information System Management, Taylor & Francis Comp, Scholar Manuscript, US, UK, Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences-HICSS-44, 2011, US, Hawaii, Journal of European Psychology Students, EFPSA. Her interests and research specializations are: organization and management, information technology in organization, methodology, quantitative and qualitative research, analytical psychology, cross-cultural research. Jolanta acted as the conference chair for the 6th European Conference on Management Leadership and Governance (ECMLG) hosted at the College of Management "Edukacja" and the Professional Development Center "Edukacja", Wroclaw, Poland, 28-29 October 2010. http://academic-conferences.org/ecmlg/ecmlg2010/ecmlg10-home.htm

Igor Kruglyak
Igor Kruglyak


Igor Kruglyak formed CoreValue with his partners in 2004 to leverage the technology and business knowledge he had gained during 22 years in IT. Prior to CoreValue Igor was Head of Engineering executive at AP3 Solutions, provider of technical solutions for a variety of Legal Networks, Chief Technology Officer for venture-funded intellectual property management company, and in this capacity Igor had overseen multi-million dollar on-shore/off-shore development projects. In 1997 Igor joined InterWorld Corporation, a 60-employee startup at the time and was a key contributor to the IPO of that company in 2000. He served as a Senior Product Manager for Micro Focus LTD, Assistant Vice President at Merrill Lynch. Igor has been a featured speaker at several national and international technical conferences, published several articles at Kobb Publications focused on the software and application development.
Tom Kwanya
Dr. Tom Kwanya


Dr. Tom Kwanya is a Knowledge Management specialist with several years of practical work experience. He holds PhD in Information Studies. His areas of research include social networking and media, innovation in research libraries, knowledge management, and public relations in libraries. He is an honorary lecturer in the Information Studies Programme, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Aleksandra Kwiatkowska
Aleksandra Kwiatkowska


Alexandra holds an MBA and is a Phd student of Pedagogy at University of Wrocław and is International Relations Coordinator at College of Management “Edukacja” in Wrocław. She has lectures on knowledge of learning and modern pedagogy. Her specialisations: popular culture, sociology, society changes, quantitative and qualitative researches, activism, employability, gender, management. She is interested in films, classic literature and travelling.

Mieczysław K. Leniartek
Mieczysław K. Leniartek


Dr Mieczysław K. Leniartek
Mieczysław is an architect and a town planner, a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture in the Technical University in Cracow, Poland (MA 1970). He has practiced in Poland, England and Australia, completed a doctoral dissertation in the Technical University in Cracow on the revitalization of historic small towns (PhD 2003). He has been a manager of a regional studies bureau in Lower Silesia and a technical director in a development company in Cracow. He has been a chairman of several international conferences on cultural tourism and an editor of publications in this field ("Commercialism of Cultural Tourism", "Exploration of Historic Environment", "Terra Incognita in Tourism"). He lectured in the Faculty of Tourism of the College of Management "Edukacja" in Wrocław, Poland, in the subject of development for hospitality, and holded a position of a dean.

Athraa Al Mosawi
Athraa Al Mosawi


Athraa Al Mosawi is assistant professor in  Information System  department at  University of Bahrain. she received her  B.Sc. in Computer Science from  University of Bahrain, M.Sc. in  Information System from University of East Anglia and Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Manchester. Her research focuses on Enterprise Application Integration and Enterprise Architecture.

Jana Riedel
Jana Riedel


Jana Riedel works in different projects at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden, University of Applied Sciences; where she creates trainings for soft skills and social media. She studied communication and media science as well as cultural studies at the University of Leipzig. Her research interests are social media, e-learning and media literacy.

Ryszard Rohatyński
Ryszard Rohatyński


Prof. Dr Hab. Eng. Ryszard Rohatyński
Ryszard has been Full Professor of Engineering at the University College of Management “Education”, since 2006. He was appointed by the President of Polish State Council (1994, Poland), member of the Board of International Design Society till 2006, for nine years, initiator and chairman of bi-annual International Conferences 'Engineering Design in Integrated Product Development', EDIProD's, held in 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 which are official events of the 'Design Society' and the Committee of Mechanical Engineering, Polish Academy of Science, manager of numerous engineering research projects for industry, referee of the Sections of the Polish Committee of Scientific Research. Assessment of numerous applications for research grants and final research reports, member of the Scientific Committees of numerous national conferences on engineering design, CAD, Fluid Flow Machinery and the like.

Narcyz Roztocki
Narcyz Roztocki


Narcyz Roztocki is an Associate Professor of Management Information Systems at the State University of New York at New Paltz. His research interests include IS/IT investment evaluation, IS/IT productivity, IS/IT investments in emerging economies, technology project management, and e-commerce. He has published in numerous journals and conferences including: the European Journal of Information Systems, the Journal of Computer Information Systems, the Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation, International Journal of Service Technology and Management, Journal of Global Information Technology Management, Journal of Information Science & Technology, and proceedings of the AMCIS, DSI, ECIS, ECITE and HICSS.

Sofiane Sahraoui



Sofiane Sahraoui is the Assistant Director General of the Institute of Public Administration in Bahrain, and Associate Research Fellow at Brunel Business School in the UK.  He holds a Ph.D from the University of Pittsburgh and a MSc. from the University of Oxford.  His research interests are mainly in Information systems governance and organizational design.

Carmen Savulescu
Carmen Savulescu


Carmen Savulescu is an assistant professor and PhD candidate in Administrative Sciences at the Faculty of Public Administration, National School of Political Studies and Public Administration. She has attended several national and international conferences, presenting papers on the issue of e-government, ICT policies and strategies. She has also participated in European and national research projects.
Benjamin Shao
Benjamin Shao


Benjamin Shao is Associate Professor at Arizona State University. His research interests are IT impacts and security. He has been serving on the editorial boards of six IS journals. He was recognized for teaching excellence as the DISC Professor of the Year and the finalist for the John W. Teets Outstanding Teaching Award at ASU.
Piotr Soja
Piotr Soja


Piotr Soja is assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Cracow University of Economics (Poland). He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Cracow University of Economics. His research interests include enterprise systems adoption, ICT for development, and inter-organizational integration. Piotr has published in numerous journals including Enterprise Information Systems, Industrial Management & Data Systems, and Information Systems Management.
Ralph Sonntag
Ralph Sonntag


Ralph Sonntag is professor for marketing, especially multimedia marketing, at the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden, University of Applied Sciences. After studying business administration in Würzburg, he was a researcher at the University of Technology Dresden. Subsequently he held positions at the strategy/technology consulting Diebold and advertising agencies. His research interests are social media, word of mouth and e-learning.
Margaret Tan
Margaret Tan


Margaret Tan is Associate Professor at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information as well as the Deputy Director of the Singapore Internet Research Centre at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Her research focuses on the building of electronic governance, trust and security, data protection and privacy, e-Government and the digital societies.
Cristina Turcu
Cristina Turcu


Cristina Turcu is a Professor of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence at Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Romania. Her research interests include software engineering, RFID applications for the end-consumer, and intelligent systems. She has published over 90 publications in books or book chapters, technical reports, refereed journals and conference/workshop proceedings.
Adela Tusanova
Adela Tusanova


Adela Tusanova PhD. student in the field of Business informatics with the focus on Cloud Computing at Technical University of Kosice. Interested in new technologies, IT investments, pricing and strategic decision making.
Esra Wali
Esra Wali


Esra Wali is an Assistant Professor at the University of Bahrain. Her research interests include the utilization of mobile technologies in education, government and business sectors and the design and development of mobile applications for these sectors. Esra holds a PhD in ICT from the University of London and an MSc in Information Systems from the University of Surrey.
Jarosław Wąsiński
Jarosław Wąsiński


Jarosław Wąsiński – Lecturer in the College of Management Edukacja; Doctor of economics; Alumnus of The Warsaw School of Economics, Auditor/ Lead Auditor ISO 9000 series QMS and ISO 27 001 (about 450 audits and expert opinions in UE); Trainer; Ten years of experience in the implementation of management systems such as ISO 9001, ISO 27 001, ISO 22 000, HACCP, BRC, IFS; Originator of technology projects in companies and industrial restructuring.
Sophia Wei Jie
Sophia WEI Jie


Miss Sophia Wei Jie is a third year phd student in Department of Information Systems, College of Business, City University of Hong Kong. Her research interests lie in innovation diffusion and assimilation, especially the diffusion of supply chain innovations such as RFID technology. She has published several papers on international conferences and journals such as: 39th International Conference of Computer & Industrial Engineering and journal of Computer & Industrial Engineering. She has also published paper on the 17th AMCIS conferences about RFID technology, 9th International Conference on Mobile Business, etc.

Heinz Roland Weistroffer
Heinz Roland Weistroffer


Heinz Roland Weistroffer is an Associate Professor of Information Systems in the School of Business at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, USA. His research interests include information technology for development, computer assisted decision-making, and systems analysis and design. He is an associate editor of the journal Information Technology for Development.
Mieczysław Wodecki
Mieczysław Wodecki


Mieczysław Wodecki is an assistant professor at Institute of Computer Science University of Wrocław. He obtained Ph.D. in Wroclaw University of Technology, Institute of Computer Engineering, Control and Robotics in 1988 and D.Sc. (habilitation) in Wrocław University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics, in 2011. He is an author of over 140 papers (and over 45 citations on ISI Web of Knowledge) in journals and conference proceedings from the field of parallel processing, scheduling and optimization. He is interested in discrete optimization and parallel algorithms.
Dominik Żelazny
Dominik Żelazny


Dominik Żelazny is a Ph.D. student of Control Engineering and Robotics at Wrocław University of Technology. He was born in 1984 in Wrocław. Started his first major, Electronics and Telecommunication, in 2003 and his second, Computer Management Systems in Manufacturing speciality, in 2006. His work consists of scheduling and other problems of discrete optimization.