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Curriculum Vitae
Thomas Riley has been involved in public policy and information issues for over 30 years starting his career as an advocate for information and privacy laws in the early 1970's. He is the author of three books on this subject matter (see
www.rileyis.com for more details). Mr.
Riley has specialized in these issues internationally and has researched and written on a whole range of issues in relation to public sector reform and the impacts of information technology for the past fifteen years. His international comparative work in recent years has been reported in many different publications and books.
Thomas Riley has also been in demand as a public speaker around the world on the role of governments in our changing technological environments.
Tom Riley is the co-founder (1999) and Executive Director of the Commonwealth Centre for Electronic Governance (CCEG)(for full details see:
electronicgov.net) The Centre for Electronic Governance has recently finished numerous studies on e-government, e-governance and e-democracy available on the Centre's web site. CCEG is a designated think tank for the Commonwealth Secretariat in London, UK.
Mr. Riley also heads his own company in Canada, Riley Information Services Inc., which has specialized in information laws, information management, and the impact of IT on Government. The company has provided a wide range of consulting and research services, as well as holding a series of annual conferences and seminars in Canada on these issues.
Tom Riley is the co-author of Privacy in the Information Age: A Handbook for Government and Industry
Professionals, published in 1996, and a contributor to Regulating the New
Media, Oxford University Press, July, 1998. Since 1992, he has conducted an international comparative study on the impact of information technology on government. This has been done by on-site interviews and research in North America, Europe and the Far East. The reports, entitled,
Living in the Electronic Village: The Impact of Information Technology in a Changing
World, have been co-sponsored by a number of public and private sector organizations. Phases I, II, III and IV of the Report were published in March, 1995, July, 1996, July, 1997, July, 1998 and August, 2000. He is currently working on his third volume of series of international studies on Electronic Governance and Electronic Democracy. In the past twenty-five years he has conducted many workshops in many countries around the world on these issues.
At the Commonwealth Centre for Electronic Governance's web site can also be found the
Riley Report, (electronicgov.net) a free online column for those who wish to subscribe.
He is the author of Electronic Governance and Electronic Democracy: Living and Working in the Wired
World, a book published by the Commonwealth Secretariat, London, in August, 2001. It can be
ordered at:
styluspub.com His most recent publication is
Living and Working in the Connected World which can be found at: electronicgov.net His latest book: E-Government: An International Comparative Study is to be published in 2003 by the Commonwealth Secretariat, London, UK and Stylus Publishing, USA. It is expected out in late spring, 2003.
Throughout his thirty years as an access, privacy and information technology professional, Mr. Riley has written numerous articles and opinion pieces published around the world, as well as specialized reports for public and private sector clients alike. He is in constant demand as a speaker in Canada and internationally. In the mid-1990s, Mr. Riley worked with the Hong Kong government in developing their Code on Access to Information. He also took part in constitutional discussions in 1995 and 1996 on the development of South Africa's freedom of information and data protection law. Under the behest of the Commonwealth Secretariat in London, UK and other international organizations, such as the British Council and the World Bank, he has worked on delivering workshops and seminars on information issues, knowledge management, information technology, e-governance, and e-democracy in many jurisdictions around the world, some of which include Hungary, Hong Kong, France, the United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore, South Africa, Kenya, Mauritius, Ghana and Malaysia.
Mr. Riley has been a visiting Professor of Law and Technology, University of Glasgow, Scotland, since 1995. Throughout his career he sat on many boards and associations. He is on the board of various publications and other public interest groups. He is currently a member of the Associate Group of the OECD's E-government project and a Topic Advisor to the Development Gateway Foundation, a project founded by the World Bank. As well as his responsibilities as Chief Executive of the
Commonwealth Centre for e-Governance (CCEG) he continues to run his company Riley Information Services Inc. in Ottawa. Much of what he has written and published can be found on his two web sites (see below).
He is currently the Team Leader of a group of international IT and E-government Experts who are developing an E-Government Strategy for the Government of Mauritius.
Mr. Riley also writes poetry and fiction. Details on his latest novel, Time's End,
Can be found here.
An anthology of his poetry is scheduled for publication in Summer, 2003.
Thomas B. Riley
Executive Director
Commonwealth Centre for Electronic Governance
http://www.electronicgov.net
Visiting Professor, University of Glasgow
Riley Information Services Inc.
http://www.rileyis.com
RTRiley6@cs.com
Riley Information Services, Inc
85 Bronson Ave,
Suite 1601
Ottawa. ON
Canada
K1R 6G7
Phone: 1-613-599-8993
Fax: 1-613-599-3837
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