Fields of research: Public Administration and Information Systems.

Dr Tim Turner has been involved in the IT industry for over 20 years, with the focus on e-commerce, and particularly e-government, for over 15 years. He has concentrated his attention on assisting governments at all levels to understand how information technology can be used to enhance effectiveness and efficiency. He has played significant roles in several of Australia’s leading e-government projects and regularly consults to peak government and industry bodies in the e-government arena.

Dr Tim Turner has been involved in the IT industry for over 20 years, with the focus on e-commerce, and particularly e-government, for over 15 years. He has concentrated his attention on assisting governments at all levels to understand how information technology can be used to enhance effectiveness and efficiency. He has played significant roles in several of Australia’s leading e-government projects and regularly consults to peak government and industry bodies in the e-government arena. Tim has also delivered significant projects in the private sector in information technology generally and electronic commerce specifically.

Tim is the Deputy Head of School for Teaching in the School of Engineering and IT at the Australian Defence Force Academy. As a senior lecturer, he is teaching Australia’s future military leaders to understand and exploit information technology. His PhD developed a theory of e-government service design grounded in his experience and that of Australian governments at the Federal, State and Local levels.

Publications

Books

Gregor S; Imran A; Turner T, 2008, ICT Management Handbook : A Guide for Government Officers in Bangladesh, National Centre for Information Systems Research (NCISR), The Australian National University, Canberra

Book Chapters

  1. Imran A; Gregor S; Turner T, 2013, ‘Curriculum Design and Delivery for E-Government Knowledge Transfer in a Cross Cultural Environment: The Bangladesh Experience’, in Dwivedi Y; Henriksen H; Wastell D; De? R (ed.), Grand Successes and Failures in IT. Public and Private Sectors, edn. 402, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 596 – 604, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38862-0_40
  2. Turner TL, 2008, ‘Module 4: Outcome Management ¿ Performance Management’, in ICT Management Handbook, A Guide for Government Officers in Bangladesh, National Centre for Info Sys Research, Canberra, Australia, pp. 99 – 126
  3. Turner TL, 2004, ‘Accountability in Cross-Tier e-Government Integration’, in Halligan J; Moore T (ed.), Australian Government Information Management Office – Future Challenges for E-Government, edn. Volume 1 of 2, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra ACT, pp. 128 – 138
  4. Wilkins L; Turner TL, 2004, ‘A New Strategy for Micro-business e-Business Adoption Policy’, in Halligan J; Moore T (ed.), Australian Government Information Management Office – Future Challenges for E-Government, edn. Volume 1 of 2, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra ACT, pp. 77 – 87

Journal Articles

  1. Shouman M; Turner T; Stocker R, 2012, ‘ Applying k-Nearest Neighbour in Diagnosing Heart Disease Patients’, International Journal of Information and Education Technology, pp. 220 – 223, http://dx.doi.org/10.7763/IJIET.2012.V2.114
  2. Guo Z; Tan FB; Turner T; Xu H, 2010, ‘ Group norms, media preferences, and group meeting success: A longitudinal study’, Computers in Human Behaviour, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 645 – 655, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2010.01.001
  3. Guo Z; D’Ambra J; Turner T; Zhang H, 2009, ‘ Improving the Effectiveness of Virtual Teams: A Comparison of Video-Conferencing and Face-to-Face Communication in China’, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 1 – 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TPC.2008.2012284
  4. Turner TL, 2008, ‘Is ICT a profession?’, Information Age, pp. 68 – 70
  5. Guo Z; Tan FB; Turner T; Xu H, 2008, ‘ An Exploratory Investigation into Instant Messaging Preferences in Two Distinct Cultures’, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 396 – 415, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TPC.2008.2007869
  6. Turner TL, 2006, ‘Introducing a Novel Market Segmentation for E-Government Services’, Journal of Information Technology and Politics, vol. 3, pp. 5 – 38
  7. Turner TL, 2004, ‘Does a Military Academy Promote Student Learning?’, Academic Exchange Quarterly, vol. 8, pp. 148 – 152

Conference Papers

  1. Quimno V; Imran A; Turner T, (eds.), 2013, ‘Introducing a Sociomaterial Perspective to Investigations of E?learning for Educational Institutions in Developing Countries’, in Proceedings of the 24th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2013), presented at 24th Australasian Conference on Information Systems 2013 (ACISS 2013), Melbourne, 4 – 6 December 2013
  2. Shouman M; Turner TL; Stocker RC, 2012, ‘Integrating Decision Tree and K-Means Clustering with Different Initial Centroid Selection Methods in the Diagnosis of Heart Disease Patients’, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN’12), CSREA Press, USA, presented at 8th International Conference of Data Mining 2012, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 16 – 19 July 2012
  3. Shouman M; Turner TL; Stocker RC, 2012, ‘INTEGRATING NAIVE BAYES AND K-MEANS CLUSTERING WITH DIFFERENT INITIAL CENTROID SELECTION METHODS IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF HEART DISEASE PATIENTS’, in Proceedings International conference of data mining and knowledge management process (CDKP), Computer Science Conference Proceedings, presented at International conference of data mining and knowledge management process (CDKP), Dubai, 28 – 29 December 2012
  4. Shouman M; Turner TL; Stocker RC, 2012, ‘USING DATA MINING TECHNIQUES IN HEART DISEASE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT’, in Proceedings of the 2012 Japan-Egypt Conference on Electronics, Communications and Computers, JEC-ECC 2012, IEEE, pp. 189 – 193, presented at 2012 Japan-Egypt Conference on Electronics, Communications and Computers, JEC-ECC 2012, Alexandria, Egypt, 6 – 9 March 2012
  5. Shouman M; Turner TL; Stocker RC, 2011, ‘Using Decision Tree for Diagnosing Heart Disease Patients’, in Australian Computer Science Communications, Australian Computer Society, Sydney, Australia, pp. 23 – 30, presented at Ninth Australasian Data Mining Conference, Ballarat, 1 – 2 December 2011, http://crpit.com/abstracts/CRPITV121Shouman.html
  6. Gregor S; Imran A; Turner T, 2010, ‘Designing for a ?’Sweet Spot’ in an Intervention in a Least Developed Country: The Case of e-Government in Bangladesh’, in , Saint Louis, USA, presented at SIG GlobDev Third Annual Workshop
  7. Turner TL, 2009, ‘A Review of Reviews about e-Government: What are we not Doing?’, in Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on e-Government, Westminster Business School, University of Westminster, London, UK, presented at European Conference on E-Government, London, UK, 29 – 30 June 2009
  8. Guo Z; Tan FB; Turner TL; Xu H, 2008, ‘The Impact of Normative Social Influence on Group Homogeneity in Media Preferences and Group Meeting Outcomes’, in 16th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS2008), National University of Ireland, Galway, Galway, Ireland, presented at 16th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS2008), Galway, Ireland, 9 – 11 June 2008
  9. Guo Z; Tan FB; Turner TL; Xu H, 2008, ‘Group Cohesion, Similarity of Media Preference and Group Performance’, in , presented at 16th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS2008), Galway, Ireland, 9 – 11 June 2008
  10. Imran A; Turner T; Gregor S, 2008, ‘Educate to Innovate ? Fast Tracking ICT Management Capabilities Amongst the Key Government Officials for eGovernment Implementation in Bangladesh’, in , Paris, France, presented at SIG GlobDev Workshop
  11. Guo Z; Tan FB; Turner TL; Xu H, 2008, ‘The Importance of Normative Social Influence and Similarity of Media Preferences on Group Meeting Outcomes: A Premliminary Result’, in International Conference on Information Resources Management 2008: Information Resources Management in the Digital Economy, presented at 2008 International Conference on Information Resources Management (Conf-IRM2008), Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, 18 – 20 May 2008
  12. Guo Z; Tan FB; Turner TL; Hu H, 2007, ‘Messaging Media Perceptions and Preferences: A Pilot Study in Two Distinct Cultures’, in 2007 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, presented at International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing 2007, Shanghai, China, 21 – 25 September 2007
  13. Guo Z; D’Ambra JG; Turner TL; Zhang H; Zhang T, 2006, ‘Effectiveness of Meeting Outcomes in Virtual vs. Fact-to-Face Teams: A comparison study in China’, in 12th Americas Conference on Information Systems (Amcis 2006), presented at 12th Americas Conference on Information Systems (Amcis 2006), Acapulco, Mexico, 4 – 6 August 2006
  14. Turner TL, 2006, ‘Defining e-Government as Rules for Social Action’, in 6th European Conference on e-Government – ECEG 2006, presented at 6th European Conference on e-Government – ECEG 2006, Marburg, Germany, 27 – 28 April 2006
  15. Guo Z; Turner TL; Tan F, 2006, ‘The effect of normative social influence and cultural diversity on group interactions’, in 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-39), presented at 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-39), Kauai, Hawaii, 4 – 7 January 2006, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2006.460
  16. Guo Z; D’Ambra JG; Turner TL; Zhang H, 2006, ‘Improving Virtual Team Meeting Outcomes: An exploratory study in two distinct cultures’, in 2006 Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS 2006), presented at Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS`06) 2006, San Servolo, Venice, Italy, 5 – 9 October 2006
  17. Turner TL, 2005, ‘Encouraging Self-directed Learning by Spiralling Through a Course’, in Higher Education in a Changing World:Annual International Herdsa Conference 2005, presented at Higher Education in a Changing World:Annual International Herdsa Conference 2005, Sydney, 3 – 6 July 2005
  18. Turner TL; Schwager A, 2005, ‘Analysing e-Government Market Segment Behaviour’, in 2005 International Conference on e-Business, Enterpries Information Systems, e-Government, and Outsourcing, presented at International Conference on e-Business, Enterpries Information Systems, e-Government, and Outsourcing 2005, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 20 – 23 June 2005
  19. Turner TL; Schwager A; Gou Z, 2005, ‘Verifying e-Government Market Segments’, in International Conference on e-Government (ICEG)2005, presented at International Conference on e-Government (ICEG)2005, Ottawa, Canada, 27 – 28 October 2005
  20. Guo Z; Turner TL, 2005, ‘Messaging Media Perceptions and Preferences: An Exploratory Study’, in 16th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2005), presented at 16th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2005), Manly, Sydney, 29 November – 2 December 2005
  21. Turner TL; Schwager A; Imran A, 2005, ‘A Preliminary Analysis of an e-Government Market Segmentation’, in 5th European Conference on e-Gpvernment, presented at 5th European Conference on e-Gpvernment, University of Antwerp, Belgium, 16 – 17 June 2005
  22. Backhouse JM; Turner TL; Keuk I, 2004, ‘Should ebXML be Preferred when Integrating e-Government ? (Also known as Designing Integrated e-Government – ebXML v WSA)’, in European Conference on e-Government (ECEG) 2004, presented at European Conference on e-Government (ECEG) 2004, Dublin, Ireland, 17 – 18 June 2004
  23. Turner TL, 2003, ‘Re-ordering Priorities for e-Government Integration across Tiers of Government’, in European Conference on e-Government (ECEG) 2003, presented at European Conference on e-Government (ECEG) 2003, Dublin, Ireland, 3 – 4 July 2003
  24. Turner TL, 2003, ‘A Preliminary View of Where Electronic Government Can Help Local Government’, in Information Technology in Regional Areas (ITiRA) 2003, presented at Information Technology in Regional Areas (ITiRA) 2003, Caloundra, Queensland, 15 – 17 December 2003
  25. Guo Z; D Ambra JG; Turner TL, 2003, ‘Understanding the Influence of National Culture on the Development of Shared Norms of Effective Communication: An exploratory Study in Two Distinct Cultures’, in 14th Australasian Conference on Information Systems 2003, presented at 14th Australasian Conference on Information Systems 2003, Perth, WA, 26 – 28 November 2003
  26. Turner TL, 2002, ‘What are the implications of being a public organisation on creating online services?’, in Powerful Connections IPAA National Conference, presented at Powerful Connections IPAA National Conference, Adelaide, Sth Aust, 13 – 16 November 2002
  27. Turner TL, 2002, ‘Market Segmentation for e-Government Services’, in 7th Annual Collecter Conference on Electronic Commerce, presented at 7th Annual Collecter Conference on Electronic Commerce, Melbourne, 1 – 2 December 2002

Reports

Imran A; Turner T; Gregor S, 2008, eGovernment for Bangladesh: A Strategic Pathway for Success, National Centre for Information Systems Research, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Conference Posters

Shouman M; Turner TL; Stocker RC, 2012, ‘Applying Data Mining Techniques in Diagnosing Heart Disease Patients’, in presented at Canberra Hospital Annual Research Meeting, Canberra, 17 August 2012