Madanmohan Rao

Dr Madanmohan Rao is an Internet consultant and writer based in Bangalore, India. He is the editor of two book series: The Asia Pacific Internet Handbook and The Knowledge Management Chronicles. He is also editor-at-large of DestinationKM.com and contributor to the Poynter Institute blog on new media trends. Madan was on the international editorial board of the recently published book Transforming e-Knowledge. He was formerly the communications director at the United Nations Inter Press Service bureau in New York and vice president at IndiaWorld Communications in Bombay. He graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology at Bombay and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with an MS in computer science and a PhD in communications. He is currently Director of the InfoComm Observatory at the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore. Madan is a frequent speaker on the international conference circuit, and has given talks and lectures in about 50 countries around the world. He has worked with online services in the USA, Brazil and India. His articles have appeared in DestinationKM.com, the Economic Times, Electronic Markets, Economic and Political Weekly, and the Bangkok Post. Madan is on the board of directors/advisors of numerous content and wireless services firms in Asia. He also participates in consultations at UNESCO, IDRC and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in India and Nepal. He is the conference chair for India Internet World, India's largest annual Internet business conference, and serves on the conference committees of trade show group Messe Frankfurt in Germany, Singapore-based Asian Media Information and Communication Centre, and the global Internet Society.

E-mail: madan@inomy.com, digitalnomad@hotmail.com