Ms Girija Krishnaswamy

Girija Krishnaswamy has a combination of industry, teaching and research experience spanning 41 years working with people in varied cultural settings. Girija has 10 years of industry experience and 31 years of Undergraduate and Postgraduate teaching and university administration experience in different countries - India, Hong Kong, Australia and Singapore. She has presented at international conferences in Australia, Dubai, Egypt, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Korea, Spain and the US and has 40 publications to her credit including book chapters and journal articles.

BScEngineering(Kerala India)
MBA(CUSAT India)
MScInfoSysMgmt(HKUST Hong Kong)

Project Management Professional (PMP) from Project Management Institute (PMI)

• Journal Article: Krishnaswamy, G. and Marinova, D. (2012), Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in Education, IT@School Project, Kerala, Region of India, Journal of Free Software and Free Knowledge, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-7.
• Journal Article: Malhotra, C. and Krishnaswamy, G. (2011), Citizens' Expectations from Rural Telecentres: A Case Study of Implementation of Common Service Centres in Mushedpur Village, Haryana, India, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, Issue 77, June 2011, pp. 1045-1051.
• Refereed Conference Paper: Chan, Peter and Krishnaswamy, G. (2012), Satisfactory Learning Opportunities for Multi-Sensory Learning with Educational Software Systems Proceedings of the 6^th International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, USA, 17^th to 20^th July 2012.
• Refereed Conference Paper: Malhotra, C., Chariar, V.M, Das, L.K and Krishnaswamy, G. (2011), Eliciting Citizens' Participation for Incorporating Contextual Factors in Rural e-Governance Initiatives, Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS2011), 30^th November to 2^nd December 2011, Sydney.
• Refereed Conference Paper: Krishnaswamy, G. and Sasi Kumar, V. (2011), Enhancing Learner Capability: Success of IT@School Project, Kerala, Region of India, Proceedings of the 16^th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science, June 27-29, 2011, Darmstadt, Germany.
• Refereed Conference Paper: Chan, Peter and Krishnaswamy, G. (2011), Do Educational Software Systems Provide Satisfactory Learning Opportunities for Multi-Sensory Learning Methodology, Proceedings of the 16^th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science, June 27-29, 2011, Darmstadt, Germany.

My research interests lie in information Systems Management. Within Information Systems Management, my research areas include Knowledge Management, Diffusion of Internet Technologies, Web Site Management Strategies, e-Government, Telecommunications and Development and Enterprise Adoption of Free and Open Sourse Software.

Masters Level Project Supervision on Knowledge Management, Unified Communications, Educational Software Systems and e-Governance.

International Collaboration on e-Governance with Prof. Charru Malhotra, Indian Institute of Public Administration and Prof. V.M. Chariar and Prof. L.K. Das, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Guest/Visiting Faculty

• DC School of Management and Technology, Vagamon, Kerala
• Institute of Public Administration, Delhi
• Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Kerala
• The Potsdam e-Government Competence Centre, Germany, April 2012
• Asia-Pacific CEO Senior Expert, Asia-Pacific CEO Association Worldwide, 2011

• Australian Computer Society
• Project Management Institute
• GLOGIFT International Society for Flexible Systems Management
• International Congress of e-Government
• The ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE)
• International Institute of Informatics and Systemics (IIIS)