K M Baharul Islam

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Professor
K M Baharul Islam
FRAS
Revenge of the cradle

K M Baharul Islam is presently the Chairperson of Centre of Excellence in Public Policy and Government at

Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland on 18 March 2020. Since October 2021, he is a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics.[1]

Appointments

During 2016-2018 he was a Fellow at the

ICT Policies and e-Government in Asia and Africa.[2] Prof Islam holds the position of Professor of Communications at Indian Institute of Management Kashipur.[3] He is a member of the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Management Kashipur and the Academic Council of Aligarh Muslim University
.

He is a Fellow at the US India Policy Institute in Washington DC. He has been awarded Shastri Institutional Collaborative Research Grant (2018–20) by

UNESCAP), Bangkok.[4]

Islam was selected as an International Fellow at the King Abdullah International Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue in Vienna, popularly known as KAICIID Dialogue Centre for 2015–2016. He served as the Chairman and CEO of the South Asia Development Gateway set up by the Development Gateway from 2007 to 2012. He studied for his first BA and MA at the Aligarh Muslim University. He completed his 2nd and 3rd post-graduate bachelor's degrees in Education (BEd) and Law (LLB) from Assam University. He did his PhD on "New Technologies for English Language Classrooms" from Tezpur University, India. He did LLM (IT & Telecom Law) at the Strathclyde Law School, University of Strathclyde with a UK Telecom Academy Fellowship. He did his post-doctoral studies on Internet-based instructions at Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok. Islam completed his MBA from I. K. Gujral Punjab Technical University and a second PhD in Transitional justice from Assam Don Bosco University, Guwahati.[5] In April, 2023, Dr Islam received a D.Litt. in English from Kumaun University, India for his thesis titled "Death of English in the Age of the Internet: Quality issues in English Language Teaching from Academia-Industry Perspective." He is an alumnus of Harvard Business School, GLOCOLL (2013-14 Batch).[6] and University of Bern, IPDET (2018 Batch).[7]

Prof Islam led a major regional capacity building program called "Environmental Assessment Capacity Building in South Asia" funded by

Disaster management in Uttarakhand state in India. Communication is one of the key issues during any emergency, and pre-planning of communications is critical. Miscommunication can easily result in emergency events escalating unnecessarily. This is a major project funded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research after the 2013 North India floods
.

Career

He started his career as a faculty in

National Institute of Technology Silchar, India where he taught for eight years. He was part of the faculty during the initial years of development of Kigali Institute of Science, Technology & Management (KIST), Rwanda (2000–2001) which is now known as College of Science and Technology
.

Islam also worked as a Reader at the National Council of Educational Research and Training, New Delhi (2002). In 2002–2003, Baharul Islam was seconded to the Addis Ababa University as an associate professor. To serve the grassroots communities, Islam initiated an NGO in Assam, India called PFI Foundation, and served as its Honorary Executive Director. While working for the Foundation, he received two Certificates of Recognition from World Bank Development Marketplace Award in 2003 and 2007 for his projects on the Education of Disabled Children in Ethiopia and Mobile Eye Care Clinic in Northeast India respectively.[10]

Baharul Islam worked earlier as an ICT Policy & eGovernment Consultant at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Addis Ababa[11][12][13][14] and United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), Bangkok.[15] He has been involved in various UN projects in Asia and Africa in countries including Cambodia, Rwanda, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, Sudan, Egypt, Tanzania and Sierra Leone. His publications include e -Government Strategy for the Gambia (published by UNECA)[16] and a National ICT Policy called NICI Policy and Plans for The Gambia commissioned by UNECA.[17] He wrote a chapter in the Digital Encyclopedia on ICT & Economic Development.[18] He was registered as an Advocate by the Bar Council of India in 2004 and enrolled as member of the Bar Association at the Gauhati High Court.

Selected publications

Gallery

See also

References

  1. ^ "Professor Baharul Islam". London School of Economics.
  2. ^ "GDN :: GDNet :: GDN's Knowledge Services Portal". Gdnet.org. Archived from the original on 23 February 2012. Retrieved 18 June 2009.
  3. ^ "Core Faculty". Iimkashipur.ac.in. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  4. ^ "Co-deployment of Optical Fibre Cables along the Asian Highways and Trans-Asian Railways for E-resilience: The cases of India and Bangladesh | United Nations ESCAP". Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  5. ^ "» Third PhD Pre-Submission Presentation Held". Web.dbuniversity.ac.in.
  6. ^ "» Global Colloquium on Participant-Centered Learning".
  7. ^ "» Int. Program for Development Evaluation Training". Archived from the original on 22 February 2019. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
  8. ^ "Environmental Assessment Capacity Building in South Asia - United Nations Partnerships for SDGs platform". Sustainabledevelopment.un.org.
  9. ^ "Law ministry commissions studies to evolve efficient justice delivery mechanism". The Times of India.
  10. ^ "Development Marketplace – 2007 (DM 007) Proposal. Summary Book – Mission Mobile for Vision – Northeast India – Global Development Marketplace (DM2007)" (PDF). Siteresources.worldbank.org.
  11. ^ "Information age government: Success stories of online land records & revenue governance from India : executive summary". Repository.uneca.org. 1 May 2003.
  12. ^ "E-Government strategy for the Gambia". Repository.uneca.org. 16 November 2017.
  13. ^ "Documents" (PDF). African Development Bank. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 November 2017. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
  14. ^ "Report of the second meeting of the Eastern African Sub-regional Committee of the Association of African Central Banks held in Dar-es-Selaam on 6 May 1971". Repository.uneca.org. 1 July 1971.
  15. ^ "Assessment of the Status of the Implementation and Use of ICT Access Points in Asia and the Pacific at the Share4Dev Knowledge Base on Sustainable Development". Share4dev.info. Archived from the original on 16 November 2017. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  16. ^ "Strategy Paper on E-Government Programme for The Gambia. United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)". Doscit.gm. Archived from the original on 2 May 2009. Retrieved 18 June 2009.
  17. ^ "NATIONAL INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION INITIATIVE (NICI) Plan for The Gambia. Ministry of Communications, Information and Information Technology (MOCIIT) of The Gambia". Doscit.gm. Archived from the original on 19 June 2009. Retrieved 18 June 2009.
  18. ^ "Books - IGI Global". Igi-global.com.
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