About Douglas Holmes
Douglas Holmes has been writing and speaking about information
technology issues within the public sector since 1992 and
is the author of eGov: e-Business Strategies for Government.
The definitive book on e-government, eGov has been translated
into seven languages: Spanish, Italian, Russian, Bulgarian,
Chinese, Korean and Arabic.
Holmes edits the Microsoft in Government e-newsletter and
he has written more than 75 public sector best practice case
studies for Microsoft, as well as numerous corporate white
papers and other reports.
He was a member of an Associates Group of experts advising
an OECD Task Force on e-Government and sits on the Advisory
Board to the Commonwealth Centre on e-Governance. He is also
a member of the European e-Forum where he was involved in
a working group on the benefits from increased take-up of
eGovernment services.
He has also organized and chaired the European eGovernment
Thought Leaders Roundtable, which brought together leading
academics and analysts to discuss the issues driving e-government
into the future.
From 1992-96, Holmes was editorial director of UK-based Government
Group Publications, which published the magazines Government
Computing, Government Purchasing, and IT for Local Government.
He has also been a columnist for the IDG publication, CIO
Government's Review, and he contributed to the U.S. Congressional
Internet Caucus Advisory Committee's 2001 Briefing Book on
eGovernment.
Holmes presents seminars on e-government and speaks regularly
at government, business and academic forums. His work involves
extensive travel to discuss e-government with public officials
and technology companies worldwide.
Before eGov
Before there was such a thing as e-government, Holmes taught
journalism in revolutionary Romania in 1990. The course, sponsored
by the Human Rights League, was the forerunner to Romania's
first independent school of journalism. Holmes spent another
year in Bucharest during 1996-97 to write fiction and freelance
for Maclean's, the Canadian weekly news magazine. Previous
to that, he travelled around Asia and worked for a while on
the daily Hong Kong Standard.
Throughout the Eighties, Holmes worked as a journalist in
Canada’s far north. He edited the newspapers News North
and the yellowknifer, reported for the CBC, and wrote his
first book, Northerners: Profiles of People in the Northwest
Territories. He also edited Dehcho: "Mom, We've Been
Discovered", a short book providing an aboriginal perspective
of British explorer Sir Alexander Mackenzie.
Holmes was educated in Toronto and at Carleton University
in Ottawa where he received a degree in political science
and journalism. Holmes has lived in various locations around
his native Canada, France, England, Romania, and Hong Kong,
and has visited around 70 countries. He now spends most of
his time in the British Columbia interior, London and Paris,
on the road, and in cyberspace.
Countries visited:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Botswana, Bulgaria, Canada, China,
Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, England,
Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greenland, Greece, Guadeloupe,
Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica,
Jordan, Korea, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Macau,
Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands,
Nicaragua, Northern Ireland, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal,
Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Serbia, Seychelles,
Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka,
Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United
Arab Emirates, United States, Wales, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
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