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Delfina Soares heads UNU-EGOV Back

Friday, 9/1/2017    Campus de Couros, Guimarães
Professor of the School of Engineering’s Department of Information Systems (DSI) is the new head of the Operating Unit on Policy Driven Electronic Governance of the United Nations University (UNU-EGOV), in the UMinho’s Couros campus.

The United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy Driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV), located in the UMinho’s Couros campus in Guimarães, is headed since September 2017 by Delfina Sá Soares, Professor of the UMinho’s School of Engineering. “Her [Professor Delfina Soares] extensive contact network and relationship with the Portuguese Government will help cement the UNU-GOV’s position in Portugal. At the same time, her connections in Africa and Colombia will help reinforce the Operational Unit’s global profile”, announced the Rector of UNU and UN’s Sub-Secretary General David Malone, after a deciding vote at UNU’s headquarters in Tokyo.

With a wide training in the fields of information systems management and interoperability, electronic democracy, electronic participation and electronic governance, Delfina Soares has a PhD in Information Systems and Technology from UMinho. She has participated and supervised various national and international projects promoting the reform and modernisation of governmental activities, and delivered lectures, seminars and presentations on her expert subject fields.

She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Observatory for the Study and Development of the Information Society (GÁVEA) and of the Executive Committee of the Portuguese Association for Information Systems (APSI). She is also member of the Working Group on Information Systems in Public Administration and of the Technical Committee on Information Systems of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).

She has been a professor of the UMinho’s Department of Information Systems since 1994, researcher with the with Centro ALGORITMI and co-author of the biannual report “Presença na Internet das Câmaras Municipais Portuguesas”, analysing the web modernisation of Portuguese municipalities and their electronic relationship with the residents.

The Operating Unit on Policy Driven Electronic Governance has become an international reference of excellence in the field, with multidisciplinary and multicultural teams gathered around complex issues and emerging challenges. The main goal of the UNU-EGOV is to become a UNU Institute by the end of 2019, with the support of UMinho and the Guimarães Municipality. Renovations on the growing team’s building are predicted to take place in 2018.

Since it was installed in Guimarães on July 2014, the UNU-EGOV has led research projects in partnership with developing countries such as Colombia, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, India and Uganda, as well as joint projects with local authorities. Every year, the UNU-EGOV organises the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV), which in 2017 brought together over 1600 participants in New Delhi, India. The Portuguese Minister of the Presidency and of Administrative Modernisation, Maria Manuel Leitão Marques, also participated in the ICEGOV. Delfina Soares also co-organised the IFIP-EGOV 2016 in Guimarães, and several workshops, seminars and work groups with delegations from the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP).

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