K M Baharul Islam

Professor Dr K M Baharul Islam is presently a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, India. He works in the area of Educational Institutional Development, teaching & Research, ICT Policies and e-Government in Asia and Africa. Islam holds the position of Professor and Chairperson of Communications Area at Indian Institute of Management Kashipur. He also serves as the Chairperson of the Center of Excellence in Public Policy and Government at the institute. He is a Fellow at the US India Policy Institute in Washington DC. He was selected as an International Fellow at the King Abdullah International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue in Vienna, popularly known as KAICIID Dialogue Centre for 2015–2016. He served as the chairman and CEO of the South Asia Development Gateway set up by the Development Gateway from 2007 to 2012. He studied for his first BA and MA at the Aligarh Muslim University. He completed his 2nd and 3rd post-graduate bachelor's degrees in Education (BEd) and Law (LLB) from Assam University. He did his PhD on "New Technologies for English Language Classrooms" from Tezpur University, India. He did LLM (IT & Telecom Law) at the Strathclyde Law School, University of Strathclyde with a UK Telecom Academy Fellowship. He did his post-doctoral studies on Internet-based instructions at Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok. Islam completed his MBA from I. K. Gujral Punjab Technical University and a second PhD in Transitional justice from Assam Don Bosco University, Guwahati.

Contents

• KAICIID Fellows Programme 2016 Dr K M Baharul Islam
• Publications
• Major projects undertaken
• Major courses taught
• References

Islam is leading a major regional capacity building program called "Environmental Assessment Capacity Building in South Asia" funded by World Bank since 2014. Under the project he planned and successfully launched a Green MBA Specialization within the post-graduate program in management as Indian Institute of Management Kashipur. He is also the principal Investigator for the project on "Performance Indicators for Subordinate Courts and Suggestive Policy / Procedural Changes to Reduce Civil Case Pendency" funded by Ministry of Law & Justice, Government of India project under research in Judicial reform scheme. Islam is the Project Director for a Communication Strategy development for Disaster management in Uttarakhand state in India. Communication is one of the key issues during any emergency, and pre-planning of communications is critical. Miscommunication can easily result in emergency events escalating unnecessarily. This is a major project funded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research after the 2013 North India floods.

He started his career as a faculty in Humanities at National Institute of Technology, Silchar where he taught from 1994 to 2002. The institute was formerly known as Regional Engineering College, Silchar. He initiated and headed the Center for Educational Technology at the National Institute of Technology Silchar, India where he taught for eight years. He was part of the faculty during the initial years of development of Kigali Institute of Science, Technology & Management (KIST), Rwanda (2000–2001) which is now known as College of Science and Technology. In 2002–2003, Baharul Islam was seconded to the Addis Ababa University as an Associate Professor. Islam also worked as a Reader at the National Council of Educational Research and Training, New Delhi (2002). To serve the grassroots communities, Islam initiated an NGO in Assam, India called PFI Foundation, and served as its Honorary Executive Director. While working for the Foundation, he received two Certificates of Recognition from World Bank Development Marketplace Award in 2003 and 2007 for his projects on the Education of Disabled Children in Ethiopia and Mobile Eye Care Clinic in Northeast India respectively.

Baharul Islam worked earlier as an ICT Policy & eGovernment Consultant at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Addis Ababa and United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), Bangkok. He has been involved in various UN projects in Asia and Africa in countries including Cambodia, Rwanda, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, Sudan, Egypt, Tanzania and Sierra Leone. His publications include e -Government Strategy for the Gambia (published by UNECA) and a National ICT Policy called NICI Policy and Plans for The Gambia commissioned by UNECA. He wrote a chapter in the Digital Encyclopaedia on ICT & Economic Development. He was registered as an Advocate by the Bar Council of India in 2004 and enrolled as member of the Bar Association at the Gauhati High Court.