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Frank Bannister:
A Short Profile |
Frank Bannister |
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Frank
Bannister is a Senior Lecturer in Information Systems and Director of the
Management Science and Information Systems Studies programme at Trinity
College, Dublin. |
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Frank first became involved in e-Government almost 30 years
ago as a young civil servant working on computer based decision support
systems for the Irish government. After a number of years as a line
officer in the Irish civil service, he moved to Price Waterhouse (later
PricewaterhouseCoopers) Management Consultants in 1978. Over the next 16
years, he worked on a wide range of information technology projects in
Ireland and abroad including several major projects in the Irish public
sector. In 1994 he joined the academic staff of Trinity College.
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In 2001 Frank completed his Ph.D., a study of the
development and effectiveness of information technology deployment in the
Irish departments of Agriculture and Social Welfare over a thirty year
period. Since completing his doctorate he has maintained his research
relationship with both departments and continued to develop his interest
in e-Government (and more recently e-Democracy) as well as in
historiography as a method of research in information systems. He has
published several articles and numerous conference papers on these
subjects as well as contributing to a number of books on them. He acts as
an advisor to a number of Irish government departments on aspects of ICT
strategy and organisation. He is a frequent public speaker on ICT matters
and on ICT in the public sector in particular. In recent years, he has
been invited to speak to the annual meeting of civil service ICT personnel
(and has been invited to do this again this year), the annual conference
of the IT group in the Department of Education, the annual conference of
the Veterinary Officers Association, the Annual IT Conference of the
Eastern Regional Health Authority and to the Annual Meeting of the Local
Government Chief Executives. |
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He is chairman of the European Conference on e-Government
and is a founding member of that conference. As well as being editor of
the Electronic Journal of e-Government, he is joint editor of the
Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation, editor of
Information Technology Policy and Procedures in Ireland and is on the
editorial board of several other journals. He is a member of the
International Institute of Administrative Sciences and European Group of
Public Administration, a Fellow of the Irish Computer Society and a
Chartered Engineer. |
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When he is not otherwise engaged, he enjoys playing the
piano, reading history and fighting planning battles with Dublin City
Council. |
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