Author: Gillian Oliver

Gillian Oliver, the current Chair of iSchools.org, is Professor of Information Management and co-Director of the Information Empowered Communities Lab at Monash University, Australia and also Adjunct Professor at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her disciplinary background is archival science, with a specific focus on information governance and human-centred cybersecurity. Her academic career was preceded by professional practice in health sciences librarianship and information management consultancy in Europe and New Zealand. The dominant theme running through her research and teaching relates to cultural influences and the need to represent cultural diversity in the systems and technologies that are developed to create and capture data and information. She is currently leading a Australian $2 million dollar research project investigating the meaning of digital citizenship for marginalised communities in Bangladesh, and exploring initiatives relating to Indigenous data sovereignty in Australia and New Zealand.

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