BRIEF BIO

Kofi Agyenim Boateng, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems at the KNUST School of Business, KNUST. He has BA (Hons) Publishing Studies from KNUST. However, his MSc in Analysis, Design and Management of Information Systems and PhD in Information Systems were all obtained from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2005and 2010 respectively.

Since 2005, he has been connected with both academic and professional institutions in varied capacities as lecturer, visiting lecturer, researcher, reviewer, among others. His current research engagements include the following:

• Platform Technologies
• Digital and Electronic Transformation
• ICT Mediated Interaction and Social Media
• E-government
• Ubiquitous Computing and SMEs and Strategy
• Ecommerce & Computerisation of Work

Kofi’s publications have found appearance in outlets intimately connected with reputable mainstream information systems journals such as Information & Management, Communications of the IIMA and Information Knowledge Systems Management. He provides scholarly reviews for prominent journals and conferences such as the European Journal of Information Systems, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) as well as the African Conference on Information Systems (ACIS).

Presently, he is the deputy PhD Coordinator at the KNUST School of Business. He also serves as a panel member for Information Systems on the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC). GTEC is the national agency for the accreditation of both public and private (Tertiary Education) institutions that oversees the contents and standards of their programmes. Kofi functions as an external examiner for PhD in information systems for University of South Africa (UNISA) and Tshwane University of Technology.