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This Website provides summarized and somewhat diffident information about me and my current professional endeavors. If you're interested, there are some prolix personal tidbits included along the way.

» Current Status:

- I am a Lecturer at the Telfer School of Management at University of Ottawa. My appointments include teaching senior undergraduate (B.Com.) level and graduate (M.B.A. and M.Sc.) level courses in Management Information Systems, e-Business Technologies & Operations Management.

- I’m currently in the data analysis and write-up phase of my Ph.D. dissertation research at the DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University. My dissertation defence is anticipated sometime in winter 2008.

- I’m currently working with the research team for these two projects:

i) “myhamilton.ca User Uptake and Adoption Study” investigating the adoption and use of the City of Hamilton’s www.myhamilton.ca community portal by its users ; and

ii) "Adoption and Use of Community Municipal Portals" (funded by Infrastructure Canada's Peer-Reviewed Research Studies (PRRS) program) (click here for a synopsis of the project) examining multiple community-oriented municipals portals as a means of understanding the factors that affect community portal adoption and use in various cities and regions.

More details about these two research projects can be found on the “Research” page.

- I have completed my Ph.D. coursework, comprehensive examinations, and dissertation proposal defence at the DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University. I am currently working towards my dissertation research. My subject field is Information Systems & research areas are Community Informatics and Computer Mediated Communication. Specifically, my dissertation topic is Enhancing User Participation in Virtual Communities: Towards a Socio-Technical Process Model.

 

» Recent News:

- October 2007: Our article has been accepted for publication in an upcoming issue of the Internation Journal of Electronic Business (IJEB): Umar Ruhi, Paul Takala, Brian Detlor, Maureen Hupfer (2007). Building Government Portals That Work: Guiding Principles from Community Informatics. .
- July 2007: Joined the at the Telfer School of Management at University of Ottawa as a Lecturer in Tenure-Track Stream.
- February 2007: Our proposal for a book chapter entitled "Incorporating Web Tracking in Web Search Analysis: Tips for Practitioners" (Authors: Brian Detlor, Umar Ruhi, Maureen Hupfer) was accepted for publication in the upcoming "Handbook of Web Log Analysis" (Editors: Bernard Jansen, Amanda Spink, Isak Taksa).
- January 2007: Our research proposal entitled "Adoption and Use of Community Municipal Portals" was accepted for funding by Infrastructure Canada's Peer-Reviewed Research Studies (PRRS) program. More details can be found on the “Research” page.
- January 2007 : Journal Article Published: Serenko, A., Ruhi, U., & Cocosila, M. (2007). Unplanned effects of intelligent agents on Internet use: A Social Informatics Approach. AI & Society, 21(1-2), 141-166. Click Here for the Abstract.
- August 2006: Selected as one of forty Ph.D. students worldwide (one of twenty in North America) for the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2006) Doctoral Consortium.
- July 2006: Conference Paper Presentation at the Seventh World Congress on the Management of e-Business: Umar Ruhi, Paul Takala, Brian Detlor, Maureen Hupfer (2006). Building Government Portals That Work: Guiding Principles from Community Informatics. Proceedings of the 74th World Congress on the Management of Electronic Business, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- May 2006: Successfully defended my Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal.
- April 2006: Journal Article Published: Brian Detlor, Umar Ruhi, Ofir Turel, Pierrette Bergeron, Chun Wei Choo, Lorna Heaton, Scott Paquette (2006). The Effect of Knowledge Management Context on Knowledge Management Practices: An Empirical Investigation. The Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management, 4(2), 117-128. Click Here for the Abstract and the Full Paper.
- February 2006: Journal Article accepted for publication in AI & Society: Alexander Serenko, Umar Ruhi, Mihail Cocosila (2006). Unplanned Effects of Intelligent Agents on Internet Use: A Social Informatics Approach. AI and Society, forthcoming. Click Here for the Abstract.
- February 2006: Paper presented at PISTA 2004 (with Alexander Serenko and Mihail Cocosila) was ranked among the best 10% of publications presented at the Conference and invited to be republished in the journal.
- November 2005: Chaired a Conference Session & Presented Paper at the 2nd International Conference on Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management and Organisational Learning.
- October 2005: Book Chapter published in Encyclopedia of Communities of Practice in Information and Knowledge Management.
- September 2005: Book Chapter published in Global Integrated Supply Chain Systems.
- May/June 2005: Completed Ph.D. Comprehensive Exams with Distinction.
- February 2005: Spoke as an Invited Speaker at the OLA (Ontario Library Association) Super Conference 2005 in Toronto.

» Up-to-Date Curriculum Vitae':

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