Contact Phone +46 70 585 17 90 Office +46 19 30 1295 Fax +46 19 33 2546 Email ake.gronlund@esi.oru.se Postal address: Örebro University, 701 82 Örebro, Sweden Research groups: ISO - Information Systems in Organizations MELAB - The Methodology Exploration Lab IPaC - IT, People and Communication SIG eGov - Electronic Government

Åke Grönlund is Professor of Informatics at Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden. Also affiliated to dept of Informatics at Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden  Research:  Electronic Government and E-democracy are the currently two most prominent research fields. Current publications in those fields include the books Electronic Government - Design, Applications and Management and Managing Electronic Services, two special sections of leading academic journals, and three books in Swedish (see also CV). Chair of AIS Special Interest Group on Electronic Government. More generally, interests include the coordination of organizations (including virtual organizations and networks) using I(C)T, including electronic service delivery, organizational redesign, electronic information infrastructures, and coordination of work based on IT use. Current work includes not only public sector restructuring but also mobile technology for different contexts.  Åke's PhD thesis, entitled "Public Computer Systems", discussed client-organizational use of IT before the World Wide Web was invented in the early 1990s, making him a pioneer in the field of electronic services (nominated so by others).  Åke is founding faculty and member of the Steering Committee of the multidisciplinary DemocrIT research programme on ICT in democratic processes.

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