Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko

Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Management, University of Tampere. He holds a PhD (Administrative Sciences) and MPhil and Licentiate (Philosophy) degrees. Anttiroiko has conducted and directed several research projects, including The Future of Electronic Services in Local Government and the Local Governance in the Information Society financed by the Academy of Finland. He has worked as an expert in several national and international e-government projects. He has collaborated with local government experts all over the world and has conducted expert work in different countries (e.g. in the CABLE Project in Namibia). His academic contributions include in a nutshell some 27 monographs, about 35 articles, and several conference/seminar papers. He is the editor of the special issue of IJTM (Vol. 28, Nos 3-6) on Global Competition of High-Tech Centres, and a co-editor of "e-Transformation in Governance" (IGP, 2004) and the Encyclopedia of Digital Government (IGP, March-April 2006). He has memberships in several scientific organisations and editorial boards.