Dr. Emmanuel C. Lallana Executive Director, e-ASEAN Task Force http://www.e-aseantf.org/

Presentation on: Strategic Thrusts in an e-Government Action Plan

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Makati City, Philippines
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The Task Force is an advisory body to the South East Asian inter-governmental organization on enhancing the region's competitiveness through developing information and communications technology (ICT) competencies among its 10 member countries.

As e-ATF Executive Director, he prepares policy options for discussion and adoption by the Task Force. He developed and implemented an e-Entrepreneurship Seminar for SMEs for participants from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam. Through the seminar, the participants are expected to obtain the techniques in the use of information and communications technologies, particularly the Internet and the World Wide Web, in their respective businesses. Another objective of the seminar is to contribute to the promotion of e-commerce and e-business in their home countries.

Dr. Lallana is also the Executive Director of Digital Philippines Foundation (Digital Philippines). It is a non-stock, non-profit organization composed of ICT and ICT-related firms and associations to facilitate business and assist government in developing and promoting the Philippines’ ICT industry.

He is developing a project for the UNDP-Asia Pacific Development Information Program (APDIP) to develop a series on primers for policymakers in developing countries on ICT issues (i.e., infrastructure development, e-commerce and e-business, e-government, cyberlaws, and biotechnology).

Dr. Lallana is the senior author of Business@Philippines.com: Electronic Commerce Policy Issues for the Philippines (Makati: Carlos P. Romulo Foundation, 1999), and e-Primer: an introduction to e-Commerce (Manila: US Agency for International Development, 2000).

Dr. Lallana graduated from the University of the Philippines with a degree in Political Science in 1979. He studied at the University of Hawaii – Manoa where he received his Masters and Doctorate degree in Political Science in 1982 and 1986 consecutively. He has had research stints at Cornell University (1989), the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (1990) and Columbia University (1999).