Faculty

Dr. Sajda Qureshi - Director

Dr. Sajda Qureshi is Professor at the Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis Department at the College of Information Science and Technology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She holds a Ph.D. in Information Systems from the London School of Economics and Political Science at the University of London the United Kingdom. She has been coordinator of the Commonwealth Network of Information Technology for Development. She was at the Department of Decision and Information Sciences at the Faculty of Management at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. She has lectured at the MIS Department of the University of Arizona in the USA and has been involved in various consultancy projects in Italy and the UK. She has over 100 publications in journals such as Group Decision and Negotiation, Information Infrastructure and Policy and Communications of the ACM, books published by Prentice Hall, Springer-Verlag, Chapman and Hall and North-Holland and conferences such as the International Conference in Information Systems and the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences. She has performed editorial work for Journals such as DataBase for Advances in Information Systems and conferences such as the International Conference for Information Systems (ICIS), and the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS). Her research interests include the use of electronic communication technologies to support coordination and decision- making processes within international networks and network organizations.

She is the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Information Technology for Development

Dr. Peter Wolcott

Dr. Peter Wolcott is an Associate Professor of Management Information Systems at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He has long-standing interests in the international dimensions of information technologies, and data management.He is the Chair of the Department of Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis at University of Nebraska at Omaha His current research projects are in the areas of service learning and information technology for development. His teaching interests are in data management and information technology for development. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Arizona in Business Administration (Management Information Systems) in 1993.

Dr. Jason (Jie) Xiong

Dr. Jason (Jie) Xiong is an Assistant Professor of Computer Information Systems and Supply Chain Management in the Walker College of Business at Appalachian State University. Dr. Xiong’s research focuses on IT for Development (IT4D), E-Commerce, and the value of Information Systems. Dr. Xiong has work experiences in IT companies including Intel, Alibaba, and Baidu.