Hereceived his PhD and MSc in Informatics from the Informatics department of Orebro University. He is the recipient of the Bo¨rje Langefors best doctoral dissertation award in Sweden by Swedish Academy of IS(sisa-net.se) for the year 2011. Dr. Islam is a founding President of the Bangladesh Centre for E-governance,elected fellow of the UK-based World Innovation Foundation and one of the recipients of the‘Strengthening ICTD Research Capacity in Asia (SIRCA)’ fellowships awarded by Nanyang TechnologyUniversity, Singapore. He has also served as a faculty member in several universities in Bangladesh. As amember of the ICT4D and eGovernment research groups at o¨rebro University, he coordinates the ‘International Network for Postgraduate Students in the Area of ICT4D (IPID)’, funded by SPIDER/SIDA.