Expert
Biography
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Henry
J. F. Ryan
Information
Science/ICT Standards Strategy
Expertise:
smart cards, ICT applications, technology standardization,
data protection,
on-line identity management, regulation and legislation,
technology conformance testing and certification, Digital
Rights Management
Industries:
technology standard bodies, government authorities,
European Union authorities and agencies, software, ICT
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Henry J. F. Ryan is General Secretary of the eEurope
Smart Card Charter Group.
Henry
is an information scientist and contributes to the development,
evolution, implementation, impact and assessment of standards
and e business strategy in private and public enterprises.
His
expertise spans a wide range of developments and issues in
information technology, its application for socio-economic
benefits and related standardization aspects including business
models and ontologies, metrics, identity management, regulation
and legislation, conformance testing and certification, data
protection, and digital rights management.
His
leadership roles in international standardization include:
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Convenor of the ISO/IEC JTC 1 Global Information Infrastructure,
- Convenor
of the JTC 1 Marketing Group,
- Chairman
of the Irish ICT Standards Consultative Committee and National
Head of Delegation to JTC 1,
- Member
of the Management Board and Vice-Chairman of the Technology
Committee of the Digital Audio Visual Consortium
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Expert project team member on several European projects
and standards activities including CEN/ISSS Data Protection
Group
- CEN/ISSS
Workshop on eAuthentication
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Standardization Expert for the DG Enterprise eBusiness W@tch.
He
is the founder and Managing Director of Lios Geal Consultants
Ltd, an Irish consultancy specialising in ICT Standards Strategy
and Knowledge Management.
Prior to this he worked in both university and private industry.
Following success as the Technical Services Librarian at University
College Cork he joined Digital Equipment Corporation, serving
first as European Software Supply Business Information Centre
Manager and later as Corporate Standards Total Quality Manager
and Standards Manager for Ireland.
Henry
has postgraduate qualifications in Experimental Physics (University
College Cork) and in Information Studies (University of Sheffield).
He studied and completed courses at the International
Institute for Management Development (IMD, Lausanne).
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