Tomasz Janowski is the Head of the Department of Informatics in Management, Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland; Invited Professor at the Department for E-Governance and Administration, Faculty of Business and Globalization, University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria; and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Government Information Quarterly, Elsevier. Previously, he was the first and founding Head of the United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV) in Guimaraes, Portugal; Senior Research Fellow at the UNU International Institute on Software Technology (UNU-IIST) in Macau, China; and Invited Professor at Università Della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland and the University of Minho, Portugal. He served as a member of the evaluation panel of the European Commission’s Joint Research Center; co-chair of the e-Government Interest Group at the World Wide Web Consortium; and member of the UN expert group on e-Government Survey. He founded the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV) and co-chaired ten editions of the conference that took place in Macao, Cairo, Bogota, Beijing, Tallinn, Albany, Seoul, Guimarães, Montevideo, and New Delhi. His research interests include digital government, smart sustainable cities, sustainable digital transformation, and digital transformation for sustainability. He co-authored over 270 academic publications, and technical and policy reports prepared for various international organizations like CTO, European Commission, IADB, IDRC, ITU, OSCE, UNDP, UNESCO, and the World Bank.

Research Interests

• digital government
• smart sustainable cities
• sustainable digital transformation
• digital transformation for sustainability

Courses taught

• Global Digital Transformation
• Enterprise Information Systems

Diploma theses topics

Master or doctoral studies, theses written in English:

• Features and dynamics of digital transformation around the world and over time
• Results and impact of digital transformation on cities, countries and the world
• Technological, institutional, cultural and other factors influencing digital transformation
• Benefits of digital transformation - efficiency, equity, transparency, engagement, etc.
• Threats of digital transformation - inequality, exclusion, cybercrime, surveillance, etc.
• Controlling digital transformation - policies, institutions, projects, capacities, etc.
• Digital transformation helping countries meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals
• Digital transformation helping build societal resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Benchmarking digital transformation in Poland/EU against other countries/regions
• Multi-disciplinary digital transformation research and its impact on policy and practice

Consultation hours

Earlier reservation by email to tomasz.janowski@pg.edu.pl