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Dr D.C.Misra

Independent eGov, Gov, ICT and KM4G Adviser and Researcher (2001-05) and currently Chief Knowledge Officer, Mauritius (2005- ), formerly of the IAS (1965-2001) with more than 40 years of ‘hands-on” experience in eGovernance and Governance, Dr D. C. Misra was Chief Secretary, Government of Arunachal Pradesh, Chief Secretary, Government of Goa, Chief Secretary, Andaman and Nicobar Administration, Deputy Secretary, Director and Joint Secretary, Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms, Government of India, Development Commissioner, Delhi, Chairman, District Rural Development Delhi, Chairman, Delhi Energy Development Agency, Member-Secretary, State Council of Science and Technology, Delhi, Member-Secretary, State Environment Council, Delhi, Additional Relief Commissioner, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, Extension Commissioner, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, Central Registrar of Co-operative Societies, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, Additional Relief Commissioner, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, Chairman and Managing Director, Delhi Financial Corporation and President, Council of State Industrial Development and Investment Corporations of India (COSIDICI). A Ph. D. from New Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia in Diffusion of Innovations, he was a post-doctoral Visiting Fellow at the Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, United Kingdom and Chairman Task Force for IT Policy for Delhi. Founder-President, Indian Society of eGovernance (online) (http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/isegov), and Editor, Indian Journal of eGovernance (online) (http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/ijegov), Dr Misra maintains a blog on egov-india (http://egov-india.blogspot.com/) and also owns and moderates the cyberquiz think tank on ICTs (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cyber_quiz/, archives at http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/cyberquiz). He is also Adviser on E-Government (http://topics.developmentgateway.org/egovernment/team/showTeam.do) and ICT4D (http://topics.developmentgateway.org/ict/team/showTeam.do) communities with 7,299 and 9,282 members worldwide respectively on the Development Gateway. • Mailing Address: C-183 Madhuvan, Madhuvan Marg, New Delhi-110092 • Tel: 2245 2431, 5244 5183 (Fax): 2242 1004 Email: dcmisra [at] hotmail.com