| Name | Abdelbaset Rabaiah, PhD | Year of Birth | 1973 |
| Profession | IT-Professional | Nationality | Palestinian |
| Marital Status | Married | | |
Key Qualifications|Education|Experience Records|Publications|Training|Skills|Team Work|Professional Membership|Other Qualities|Language Capabilities
KEY QUALIFICATIONS
Dr. Abdelbaset Rabaiah was born in 1973 in Meithalun in the northern part of the West Bank, Palestine. He has received his primary, elementary and secondary education in Meithalun's local schools. He later pursued his undergraduate studies at An Najah National University in Nablus/West Bank. He then joined the Arab American University (AAU) in Jenin/West Bank to work as a research assistant.
In 2003, Dr. Rabaiah was awarded a BTC scholarship to pursue his graduate studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). He graduated with great distinction and received a Master degree in Business Information Management in 2004. He then headed back home to work on a case study in the Palestinian Territories in 2005/2006. There, he joined the e-Government Project team. That team was responsible for laying out the strategy of e-Government and ICT at the Ministry of Information and Telecommunication Technology in Ramallah. He gained a hands-on experience of how things are managed at the strategic level. Dr. Rabaiah has produced the Arabic version of the Palestinian ICT Strategy. At that time, he was doing research under the supervision of Prof. Farouq Musa of AAU.
In 2008, Dr. Rabaiah has joined the ePractice community (e-Government, e-Healh, and eInclusion) which was created by the European Commission (www.ePractice.eu). He later established the Community of Researchers of E-Government within ePractice.eu. Dr. Rabaiah has participated in workshops organised by ePractice and the Interoperable Delivery of European eGovernment Services to public Administrations, Businesses and Citizens (IDABC).
Dr. Rabaiah has published a number of papers in proceedings of some conferences and Journals dedicated to e-government. He has also co-authored a book in which he drew the connection between e-government and e-commerce in the Less Developed Countries.
Finally, in 2009, Dr. Rabaiah has received a PhD in e-Government from the VUB with a Great Distinction evaluation. He now chairs the Department of Managament Information Systems (MIS) at AAU.
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EDUCATION
| 2009 | PhD in e-Government, University of Brussels (VUB). Brussels, Belgium |
| 2004 | Master in Management Information Systems (Business Information Management), University of Brussels (VUB). Brussels, Belgium |
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EXPERIENCE RECORD
| Currently | Full-time Assistant Professor chairing the Department of Management Information Systems of the Arab American University of Jenin, AAUJ. |
| 2004-2006 | Full-time Instructor at the Department of Management Information Systems of the Arab American University of Jenin, AAUJ. |
| 2001-2003 |
Employed as a full-time Teaching and Research Assistant at the Arab American University in Jenin--AAUJ as well as a part-time IT Dean's Assistant for Administrative Affairs (http://www.aauj.edu/)
Workload includes:
- Devising lab courses together with the supervising professor
- Coordinating, pursuing and supervising projects given to student as a part of the academic process
- Eagerly assisting students/professors in their scientific research
- Supporting professors through preparations of presentations and computerized materials necessary for the success of their classes
- Designing brochures, logos, and developing educational CDs...etc
- Developing a didactic website to boost true and interactive e-Learning of students of the Faculty of IT
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| 1999-2001 |
Dornier SystemConsult, GmbH A company of the DaimlerChrysler Group. Middle East Regional Office - East Jerusalem
Key Responsibilities:
- IT Training:
- MS-Office AutoCAD
- Operating Systems (Windows 9x/NT)
- GIS (ArcView)
- Visual Basic 6.0
- Ms-Project 98
- Internet and E-mail
- Preparing Presentations for seminars and conferences held by the firm
- Database development and administration
- Generating the computerized data
- Preparation of all computerized data including AutoCAD drawings, Traffic signs phase design, preparation of different type of reports, Database design and operation, MS-Project Charts and others
- Preparation of final project presentation held in Jericho and attended by representatives of Ministry of Public Works (MOPW), Ministry of transportation (MOT), Ministry of Local Government (MOLG), and PECDAR
- Communicating with and contacting World Bank, PECDAR, MOT, MOPW and MOLG and information exchange with them
- Preparation of standards and specifications for road woks and tendering documents forms for contractors
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PUBLICATIONS
The following is a list of recent publications:
Copyright Note: Please note that resources below are copyrighted by law. Please cite the owner(s) of the original materials.
- PhD Thesis: Best-Practice Framework for Developing and Implementing e-Government NEW
- Rabaiah, A. & Vandijck, E. (2009) 'Maturity Model of Strategic Objectives of e- Government', International Journal of Electronic Government Research. [Accepted].
- Rabaiah, A. & Vandijck, E. (2009) 'A Strategic Framework of E-Government - Generic and Best Practice', Electronic Journal of e-Government. Volume 7, Issue 3, (pp241 - 258), ISSN 1479-439X.
- Rabaiah, A., Vandijck, E. (2008). Co-authering the book titled "Emerging Markets and E-Commerce in Developing Economies", Hard Cover Publisher: Information Science, USA. October 2008. ISBN: 978-1-60566-100-1.
- Rabaiah, A., Vandijck, E. (2007). Towards Efficient and Transparent E-Government Processes, Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference E-Commerce 2007, 7-9 December 2007, Algarve, Portugal, pp. 236-240, ISBN: 978-972-8924-49-2.
- Rabaiah, A., Vandijck, E (2007). Federation of E-government: A Model and Framework, Information Systems Control Journal, July 2007, Volume 4.
- Rabaiah, A., Vandijck, E., Musa, F. (2006). Abstraction of eGovernment, Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference E-Commerce 2006, 9-11 December 2006, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 27-34, ISBN: 972-8924-23-2.
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TRAINING
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Dr. Rabaiah was well trained for:
- GIS training at Dornier SystemConsult
- Reporting and documenting
- Networking Techniques and Troubleshooting and computer Software and Hardware maintenance at "Al-Kinana Computers and Electronics-Nablus"
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SKILLS
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Dr. Rabaiah Professional in the following:
- Visual Basic Programming
- Visual Basic Scripting
- JAVA Programming
- JavaScript
- Database Design (MS-Access and SQL-Visual Basic Related)
- OLE (ActiveX) Automation
- Adobe PhotoShop
- Front Page 2000
- Macromedia Flash 5.0
- HTML/DHTML/CSS
- Web Development-SSJS
- Web Publishing
- Active Server Pages (ASP)
- C++ Programming
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TEAM WORK
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Skills gained:
- Sharing information with workmates effectively and seamlessly
- Work disciplines and code of conducts
- Time appreciation and synchronization
- Inter-relations with foreign experts
- Fluency of English
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OFFICIAL MEMBERSHIP
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Dr. Rabaiah is a member of the following associations:
- Palestinian Engineers Syndicate and the Jordanian Engineers Syndicate under registration number:01\14140
- A founding member of the Palestine Netherlands Friendship Association (PNFA)
- Solvay Business School Alumni asbl (Avenue Franklin Roosevelt, 48 CP 141, Brussels / Belgium)
- Founder of the eGovernment Researchers Community within ePractice - European Commission
- Editorial Board of the Aston Journals (astonjournals.com)
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LANGUAGE CAPABILITIES
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing |
| Arabic | Mother Tongue | Excellent | Excellent |
| English | Excellent | Excellent | Excellent |
| Hebrew | Good | Good | Fair |
| French | Good | Good | Poor |
| Dutch | Poor | Poor | Poor |
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OTHER QUALITIES
| Driving License | Available - International |
| Own Car | Available |
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