User:Aurobindo Ogra

Aurobindo Ogra
Aurobindo Ogra is a lecturer at Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Johannesburg, South Africa and specializes in Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from CEPT University, India. Prior to joining university, he has been involved in the consulting sector in India and carries with him more than 12 years of professional experience in municipal governance and reforms, local development, urban and regional planning, tourism infrastructure and planning, and capacity building. During his consulting tenure he has been involved in multi-sectoral urban projects in India and handled key assignments in urban planning, governance and tourism sectors. Some of the key project involvements include: e-Governance project, national urban renewal project, tourism infrastructure road map, municipal reforms project.

Project Experience
The project experience involved projects from international donor agencies like Asian Development Bank (ADB), World Bank, Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), Government of India, State Governments, and Urban Local Bodies (ULBs).

Awards & Achievements
Mr. Ogra is a Certified GIS Professional (GISP) from GISCI, USA. He has been a recipient of DiploFoundation Scholarship on Internet Governance and Capacity Building Programme (IGCBP 2011) and ACP/EU ICT Policy and Strategic Planning (Internet Govrnance), Urban Habitat Forum (UHF) Fellowship, India (2009) and Local Government & Public Service Reform Initiative (LGI) Fellowship, Open Society Institute, Hungary (2008-09), and Provention Consortium Grantee, World Bank (2003).

Research Interest Areas
His research focus areas include: Municipal Reforms, Urban and Regional Planning, Urban Development, Local Governance, e-Governance, Geographic Information Systems, Tourism Infrastructure, Project Development & Management, and Capacity Building. He has published and presented various thematic peer reviewed papers in national and international conferences, and is serving as an Editorial Board Member / Reviewer in selected national and international journals.

Publications

 * Ogra, A., Thwala, W.D. 2014. E-Government Perspectives: Evolution, Strategies and Practices, DOI: 10.978.819252/12220
 * Sharma, V., Guttoo, D., Ogra, A. 2014. Next Generation Citizen Centric e-Services, DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880672
 * Lewis, M.P., and  Ogra, A. 2010. An Approach of Geographic Information System (GIS) for Good Urban Governance, DOI: 10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2010.5567741