Adegboyega Ojo is a Research Fellow at the UNU International Institute for Software Technology (UNU-IIST) located in Macao SAR, China. At UNU-IIST, he belongs to the Center for Electronic Governance and is responsible for electronic governance research, education and training at the institute. Before joining UNU-IIST in May 2004 as a Postdoctoral Fellow, he was Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computer Sciences, Faculty of Science of the University of Lagos in Nigeria.

His expertise and interests is in the domains of Electronic Governance, Software Engineering and Computational Intelligence. His research before May 2004 was mainly in the area of Computational Intelligence, the thematic area for his doctoral thesis, while his teaching responsibilities were mainly in Software Engineering. Since joining UNU-IIST, his work has largely been in electronic governance and software engineering but applying tools and techniques from computational intelligence in the planning and assessment aspects of electronic governance. His current research specifically addresses how to: effectively plan for electronic governance; align electronic government strategies with public reform and other related programs; analyze and evolve suitable architectures that ensures that IT structures in government organizations effectively enable and support process standardization and integration needs of critical whole-of-government programs. Between 2004 and 2006, his work was focused on investigating how electronic public services can be rapidly and reliably developed from application frameworks and repositories of shared components and services on government networks and cyber-infrastructures. Recently, he commenced work in the area of development informatics with focus on theories and models for assessing the impact of ICT on development.

Adegboyega’s academic and professional career spans 19 years of teaching, research, training and capacity building in computing, e-governance and related subjects and a total of 22 years of software development experience. He has taught computer science courses to various levels of university students and e-government courses to government officials in developing countries; particularly in Africa and Asia. He has supervised over 70 undergraduate and master dissertations, advised over 10 doctoral students and currently supervises a PhD student at UNU-IIST. He has successfully led major e-government projects in the public sector and software development projects in the private sector.

He has published over 40 peer-reviewed papers as journal articles, book chapters, and contributions to conference proceedings in addition to over 40 technical and project reports on topics related to assessment framework for egovernment, architecture and interoperability, software infrastructure for e-government, open courseware, methodology for aligning e-government and public reform programs, and software technology development policy in the context of south-south cooperation. Before joining UNU in 2005, he had written a significant number of articles on Artificial Neural Networks modeling with applications to problems such as financial distress and bankruptcy prediction, and bacterial identification. Apart from scholarly publications, he has successfully converted his research outputs in the last 5 years to policy recommendations, IT strategies, toolkits, instruments and software tools for government practitioners.

Adegboyega has co-authored several research proposals and received grants in the areas of Electronic Governance and Computational Intelligence from sources including own university, governments and private sector organizations.

He participated in high-level meetings on ICT for development involving UN organizations and has good record of contributions in terms of service and outreach to his host institutions, external universities, professional organizations and international conferences. He currently serves as the PC Co-Chair of the 7th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology (ICDCIT2011).

Adegboyega Ojo holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Lagos in Nigeria (1998) and a bachelor’s degree from the same university (1991). He is also a professional member of the Association for Computing Machinery and the Computer Professionals Registration Council (CPN) of Nigeria.