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 Dr
K M Baharul 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 has studied for his
first Bachelors’ and Masters’ degrees at AMU (India). He completed
his 2nd and 3rd post-graduate degrees in Education (B.Ed) and Law (LLB)
from Assam University (India).
He did his PhD on New Technologies from Tezpur University (India)
and finished his post-doctoral studies on Internet-based
instructions at Asian Institute of Technology (Bangkok, Thailand).
He has completed his LLM (IT & Telecom Law) at the University of
Strathclyde (UK) and now working as a off-campus scholar on the
Master of Populations Studies program at the International Institute
of Population Science, Mumbai.
He a licensed advocate registered with the Bar Council of India. His
areas of legal specializations are Information Technology Law, Cyber
Crimes, and Intellectual Property Rights of software and Liability
in Information Society. Starting career as a university faculty, he
has taken keen interest in broadening the ICT implications for mass
access and developmental use. As an institution builder, he
initiated and headed the Center for Educational Technology at the
National Institute of Technology (Deemed University), Silchar, India
where he taught for more than eight years.
He was part of the UNDP deputed faculty establishing the Kigali
Institute of Science, Technology & Management (KIST) in
post-genocide Rwanda in 2000. In 2002-2003, Dr Islam was seconded to
the Addis Ababa University on a UNDP capacity building program as an
Associate Professor. He received a Certificate of Recognition from
The World Bank in December 2003 for his work on education of
disabled children in Ethiopia. Presently Dr Islam is on diplomatic
assignment with South Asian Regional Development Gateway as its
Chairman and CEO.
He was earlier working as a specialist on ICT policy and
e-Government with the UN Commission for Africa (UNECA) and UN
Economic Commission for Asia (ESCAP). He is one of the few Asian
experts trained by UNICEF as master trainer on emergency education
sector reconstruction in the region. He has been involved in various
UN projects in Asia and Africa in countries like Cambodia, Rwanda,
Ethiopia, The Gambia, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, Sudan, Egypt, Tanzania,
Djibouti and Sierra Leone. His latest publications includes
eGovernment Strategy for the Gambia (Published by UNECA) and
National ICT Policy called NICI Policy and Plans for The Gambia and
the Regional e-Government Framework for the East African Community
commissioned by UNECA. On behalf of UNESCAP, Bangkok, he has very
recently finished a study on the rural ICT access points /Telecenters
in Asia and the pacific.
He has written a chapter of the first Encyclopaedia of Digital
Governance being published this year. Before taking up his present
assignment, Dr Islam was working as a Reader in the National Council
of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) in India. Back home, Dr
Islam is the Chairman of State for State Rural Technology Promotion
Council in the Government of Assam, India since 1999.
He may be contacted through email at
islamb@un.org or
drbahar@gmail.com.
Cell (India) +91 94350-72356 Street
Address: 46, Sijubari Chariali, Guwahati 781 038 (Assam) India.
Complete Curriculum Vitae
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