Biography


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Luís Vidigal

Degree in Management and in Social and Political Sciences. National and international specialist and consultant in areas of Government and e-Government IT. Visiting lecturer and trainer at several higher education and professional institutions. Chairman of itSMF Portugal - Association of IT Services Managers. Founder and Member of Management Board of APDSI - Associação para a Promoção e Desenvolvimento da Sociedade da Informação (Association for the Promotion and Development of the Information Society). Member of the Governing Board of the Informatics Institute, Deputy Director General of DGITA, Deputy General Director of the Secretariat for Administrative Modernisation and Team Member of Mission for the Information Society. Lecturer at more than 200 events in Portugal and abroad. Expert invited by the OECD, the European Union and World Bank on numerous technical missions abroad. Founder and executive coordinator of INFOCID - Sistema Interdepartamental de Informação ao Cidadão (Interdepartmental Citizen Information System). Member of the Board of ICA - International Council for Information Technology in Government Administration. More than 40 papers published and co-author of books in areas of e-Government, administrative modernization and information management. 38 years of experience in administrative modernization and information technologies.