Rilwan Basanya is a Project Staff at the Center for Electronic Governance — UNU International Institute for Software Technology (UNU-IIST), contributing to various tasks, from research and development, through dissemination to networking. His current research interests include: Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Strategic IT Planning for Public Organizations, Ontologies and the Semantic Web, Technical Cooperation in Developing Economies, and Applications of Artificial Neural Networks. Rilwan Basanya holds an M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He is currently a Ph.D. Student under the joint Ph.D. program of UNU-IIST and the University of Pisa.