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Mr.Jaijit Bhattacharya

Jaijit is Head e-Governance Centers of Excellence for Asia Pacific at Oracle Corporation. The five centers in India, China, Sri Lanka, Philippines and Malaysia focus on e-governance issues of South Asia and South-East Asia. Jaijit also advises governments on e-governance strategies and has conducted workshops that enable government departments to create their own e-governance roadmap. He is also an e-Governance advisor to Government of Sri Lanka and Government of Karnataka. Prior to his tenure at Oracle, he has worked as a consultant in Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting) and subsequently as a researcher in e-Governance technologies in IBM India Research Labs. He has been involved in developing technologies for e-governance and in implementation of very large systems in over nine countries. He has also developed business models and strategies for governments and for leading companies in the IT, media and computer hardware industries. He has numerous research papers to his credit in leading journals and conferences. He has also co-authored ‘Government On-line – Opportunities and Challenges’, published by Tata McGraw Hill. The book focuses on providing e-Government decision makers the information they need to be able to make decisions for architecting a roadmap for implementation of e-Governance projects. The book was released by the honourable President of India, Shri Abdul Kalam. He is also advisor to Government of Karnataka, Sri Lanka and to the Velugu which is the world’s largest poverty reduction program. Jaijit did his B.,Tech in Electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He is currently doing his PhD from Department of Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.