Mr.T. Kumar - Indian Institute of Public Administration

Name: T.KumarContact Address:KIIT School of Rural Management,Campus -7, KIIT University,Bhubaneswar - 751024, OrissaContact Tel: 09178251586Email: laltkumar[at]gmail.comHighest Educational Qualification: Phd(Submitted Thesis Draft)Area of Expertise: E-Governance & DevelopmentWork Experience:OrganizationRamco SystemsDesignationAnalyst ProgrammerTime PeriodJune 1998 – March 2003IRMAResearch AssociateJanuary 2008-March2008 & February 2010-May 2010Professional Activities:Working as an Assnt. Professor at KiiT School of Rural Management, BhubaneswarPublications/researches/studies undertaken:Kumar, T. 2007, “Development Perspectives On The Digital Divide”, in Bridging DigitalDivide, edited by Garg, Rajendar K. & Jaiswal, Mahadeo., McMillan India, AdvancedResearch Series.Kumar, T. and Misra, Harekrishna. 2007, “Decentralization And E-Government ServicesIn Indian Context: Case Based Study In Gujarat”, in Adopting E-Governance, edited byG.P. Sahu, GIFT Publishing, Global Institute of Flexible Systems Management, New

Delhi. Available at http://www.iceg.net/2007/books/3/17_341_3.pdfState Chapters on Manipur, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal 2008, in State of Panchayats– Volume II report for Ministry of Panchayat Raj, Government of India, available athttp://panchayat.nic.in/viewFolder.do?itemid=3710&ppid=213&ptltid=3673&name=States&path=undefined. Was involved in writing these chapters which was later edited beforepublicationState Chapters on Bihar and West Bengal 2010, in State of Panchayats – Volume II reportfor Ministry of Panchayat Raj, Government of India. Was involved in writing thesechapters which was later edited before publicationKumar,T., Mishra, Harekrishna. and Mishra, Debi Prasad. 2008, “Decentralization AndE-Governance In Indian Context: A Case Based Study”, in Critical Issues in E-Governance, edited by Jaijit Bhattacharya, Global Institute of Flexible SystemsManagement (GIFT) Publishers, New Delhi. Available athttp://www.iceg.net/2008/books/1/9_81-90.pdfKumar, T. 2010, “E-Governance And Decentralization – An Exploratory Study InGujarat” in Skoch Knowledge Repository, Available at,http://corporate.skoch.in/images/stories/knowledge_repository/Governance/eGovernanceDecentralization_T_Kumaran.pdfConference PresentationsKumar, T. and Ramprasad 1997, “Image Processing using 8085” at ‘Diginet’, PSG TechEngineering College, Coimbatore in December 1997(while doing engineering degree)Kumar, T. 2006, “Embalam Knowledge Centre”, a Management Case, presented in ‘IXStrategic Management Forum Convention’, held at IIM, Kozhikode in May 2006Kumar, T. 2006, “Development perspectives on the Digital Divide” at ‘InternationalConference on Bridging the Digital Divide’ at MDI, Gurgaon in December 2006Kumar, T. 2007, “E-Governance and Decentralization”, at a ‘Research and TrainingSeminar (RTS)’ at XIM, Bhubaneshwar in January 2007. Was the Seminar leader for thisseminarKumar, T. and Misra, Harekrishna. 2007, “Decentralization and E-Government Servicesin Indian Context: Case Based Study in Gujarat”, in ‘5 th International Conference on E-Governance’ by ICEG (International Congress on E-Government) at Hyderabad CentralUniversity in December 2007. The paper also got published, the details of which havebeen given in the publications section