Carla Bonina

PROFILE
I am a PhD Candidate in the Information Systems and Innovation Group, Department of Management, at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

My PhD dissertation deals with unfolding the linkages between public values and technology within modernisation reforms, for which I conducted a longitudinal in-depth study of trade regulations in Mexico. Besides my research interests in government action and technology, I am interested in broader areas of Internet policy and its social impacts, such open government, mobile communications, privacy and digital identity management, particularly in the context of Latin American countries.

My most recent work is qualitative, and I am interested in organisational discourse approaches, in particular, critical discourse analysis, to study organizing processes.

Ph.D. Candidate
The London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Management, Information Systems and Innovation Group, 2007-Present

Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (CIDE), Department of Public Administration, Mexico City, 2002-2004

Visiting Scholar
University of Texas at Austin, LBJ School of Public Affairs, Fall 2003

BA in Economics (6 year programme)
University of Buenos Aires, School of Economics, 1996-2001

July 2010 Oxford Internet Institute. Summer Doctoral Programme (an intensive two-week course for advanced doctoral students in the field of Internet research)

2006 Regional Dialogue on the Information Society (DIRSI) - Young Researchers Award

2002-2004 Fellowship CIDE (fully funded student). Ranked First Class 2004

Work in Progress

Organizing technology in government - PhD work in progress

Open government, social media and principles for protecting identity in Latin America (with Aaron Martin)

Enacting transparency through technology: lessons from Mexico

Publications

A Public Value Perspective for ICT Enabled Public Sector Reforms: A theoretical reflection (with Antonio Cordella) - Government Information Quarterly (forthcoming)

Open Government and Citizen Identities: Promise, Peril, and Policy (with Aaron Martin) to appear in International Development in Network Society: learning from open development, edited by M.L. Smith and K. Reilly, MIT Press, Forthcoming

Mobile Phone Usage in Mexico: Policy and Popular Dimensions (with Judith Mariscal), in Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies, James Katz (Ed), MIT Press, July 2008

New Market Scenarios in Latin America (with Judith Mariscal and Julio Cesar Luna), in Digital Poverty: Latin American and Caribbean Perspectives, Mariscal, J. and Galperin, H. (Eds.), Practical Action Publishing/ International Development Research Centre (IDRC), 2007

Technologies are more than tools: Searching for public values within e-government and public sector reforms, 28th EGOS Colloquium 2012, July 5-8 2012, Helsinki, Finland

The Internet in Government: on bureaucracy, public value and the reorganisation of the state, The Sixth Organization Studies Summer Workshop, “Bringing Public Organization and Organizing Back In”, May 25–28, 2011 - Abbaye des Vaux de Cernay. Paris, France

The Internet and Public Bureaucracies: towards balancing competing values (with Antonio Cordella), Internet, Politics, Policy 2010: An Impact Assessment, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, 16-17 September 2010. Conference paper available here: http://microsites.oii.ox.ac.uk/ipp2010/programme/92

Openness in Latin America and the problem of identification (with A. Martin & S. Goldchluk), presented at the Conference organized by the IDRC: Open Development: Technological, organizational and social innovations transforming the developing world, Ottawa, Canada, May 5-7, 2010

Public sector and ICT: beyond the private sector rationale (with Antonio Cordella), 3rd Latin and European Meeting on Organization Studies (LAEMOS), Sub-Theme 7: Innovating in times of crisis: Unique opportunities or further exploitation, disruption and downsizing?, Buenos Aires, April 7-10, 2010

Constructing and disrupting transparencies: ICTs and identity management in Latin America (with A. Martin and S. Goldchluk), 3rd Latin and European Meeting on Organization Studies(LAEMOS), Sub-theme 4: Digital media, information and organizations, Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 7-10, 2010

Exploring the complexities of e-government deployment: a public value perspective, Quadrangular Conference in Technology, Organization & Society 2009, Judge Business School, Cambridge, June 1-3, 2009

The new public management, e-government and the notion of 'public value': Lessons from Mexico (with Antonio Cordella), AIS Special Interest Group on ICT and Global Development Workshop, Paris, December 13, 2008

Public Deliberation on the Internet: the case of Mexico and the reform of the Federal Telecommunications Law (with Manuel Alamilla), International Conference on e-Government Proceedings, (ICEG 2005), Ottawa, Canada, 2005

Challenges and Opportunities of the e-government and the New Public Management: the case of Argentina (in Spanish, with Walter Lepore), X CLAD International Congress on Government and Public Administration Reform, Santiago, Chile, 2005

Fixed Telecommunication Tariffs in Mexico: Methodologies, Trends and Current Situation (in Spanish), Telecom CIDE Report, prepared for Telefonos de Mexico (Telmex), May 2007.

ICTs and Education: A survey on Available Indicators and Current Evaluation Methods (in Spanish), (with MarIa Frick), Telecom-CIDE Working Paper DTT 45, CIDE, Mexico City, February 2007.

Social and Economic Contributions of Mobile Telecommunications in Mexico (in Spanish), (with C. Verut and E. Piedras). Telecom CIDE Report, prepared for Telefonica Movistar Mexico, February 2006.

Digital Divide in Latin America: Beyond Teledensity (In Spanish), Telecom-CIDE Working Paper DTT 25, CIDE, Mexico City, December 2005.

Graduate Courses: Information systems management (IS472), Information systems for the public sector (IS479)

Enrolled in the LSE Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education. External Examiner. University of London External System

2011: Universidad de San Andres, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Invited lecturer for the MA in Organization Studies. Course: Information technology and Organizations

2005-2007: CIDE, Department of Public Affairs: Graduate teaching assistant. Course: Microeconomics (graduates)

1999-2002: Universidad de Buenos Aires, School of Economics: Teaching assistant. Course: Econometrics I (undergraduate level)

2010-Client: Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) (2010)

In collaboration with Dr. Antonio Cordella, we delivered a background document to inform the OECD secretariat on the following e-government issues: an extensive literature review of the state of the art research and analysis on back-office integration, and policy and economic impacts of e-government; recommendations for further development of e-government indicators.

2008-Client: Kazakhstan Ministry of Justice
Expert on the project "Road map on Electronic Licensing implementation" (led by Prof. Julius Sen)
Drafted a road map proposal to modernize the licensing system to start and open a business in Kazakhstan, based on international experiences.

2008/2009 17 EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS (ECIS 2009)
Conference Committee Assistant (reported directly to Dr. Edgar Whitley)
Managed the review process (over 700 full paper submissions) and assisted the Conference Chairs in the organisation,
logistics and messages with authors.

In 2004 I joined the Telecom-CIDE, a research program hosted at CIDE which mission is to generate and promote relevant policy initiatives for the development of the telecommunications and ICT sector. The programme is sponsored by the main telecom operators in Mexico and other institutions, such as government agencies and think tanks that requests specific projects in the field. During my 3 years of experience there, I have led and coordinated several research projects, mainly related to telecoms regulation, organizational aspects of innovations in the public sector, and the use of technology for fostering development.

Some key research projects I led include: Evaluation of the effects of e-government policies on Competitiveness (2000-2006) (Ministry of the Economy), Social and economic impacts of mobile telephony in Mexico (Telefonica Movistar), Fixed Telephony tariffs in Mexico: Trends and Current Situation (Telmex), White Paper on Breaking Telecommunications Barriers in Mexico, and Assessing the impact of WiFi technologies in Los Libres, Puebla (IDRC).

2005: Institute for Connectivity of the Americas (ICA/IDRC), Consultant – Project: “ICT Governance for Poverty Reduction”

2001-2002: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Argentina, Office of Multilateral Trade Negotiations, Economic Consultant

2009 18 European Conference of Information Systems (ECIS 2010), Associate Editor

2009 17 European Conference of Information Systems (ECIS 2009), Conference Committee Assistant

2009 17 European Conference of Information Systems (ECIS 2009), Session Chair

Referee European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), Journal of Information Technology for Development (ITD), Academy of Management 2010 Annual Meeting (OCIS Division), European Conference of Information Systems (ECIS), the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), IDRC Open Development Workshop 2010, Gestion y Politica Publica

Fluent in SPANISH (native) and ENGLISH, Proficient in ITALIAN, Basic knowledge in PORTUGUESE.