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Hakikur Rahman

Hakikur RahmanHakikur Rahman is an academic with over 30 years of experience, having served leading educational institutions in Bangladesh and abroad. He has established various ICT4D projects funded by organizations like the ADB, EU, UNDP, and the World Bank. Currently, he is a Professor (former Dean of the School of Science and Engineering and Head) of the CSE Department at Presidency University, as well as Director at the Ansted University Sustainability Research Institute. Previously, he was a Professor at the Asian University of Bangladesh, Chair of the CSE Department at BRAC University, and a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Minho, Portugal. Dr. Rahman has authored and edited over 25 books, contributed more than 50 book chapters, and published over 200 articles on topics such as ICTs, knowledge management, open innovation, and data mining. He holds two PhDs—one in Computer Engineering from Ansted University and another in ICT from Empresarial University of Costa Rica—and completed his postdoctoral research at the University of Minho in 2013. He is the Chief Editor of the International Journal of Information Communication Technologies and Human Development (IJICTHD) and the International Journal of Knowledge Management (IJKM).

Publications

Blockchain Technology Applications in Knowledge Management
Blockchain Technology Applications in Knowledge Management
Hakikur Rahman. © 2025. 530 pages.
The emergence of blockchain technology is revolutionizing knowledge management by introducing unprecedented levels of security, transparency, and efficiency. Traditional...
Digital Citizenship and Building a Responsible Online Presence
Digital Citizenship and Building a Responsible Online Presence
Hakikur Rahman. © 2025. 460 pages.
In a connected world, understanding how to navigate the digital landscape responsibly is essential for individuals of all ages. Exploring the concept of digital citizenship...
Blockchain-Driven Knowledge Ecosystems
Blockchain-Driven Knowledge Ecosystems
Hakikur Rahman. © 2025. 42 pages.
Blockchain technology is a distributed, decentralized ledger system that securely and openly records transactions across numerous computers, or “nodes.” The importance of...
Securing Data Privacy in Blockchain Networks
Securing Data Privacy in Blockchain Networks
Hakikur Rahman. © 2025. 44 pages.
In this chapter, we tackle the significant obstacles linked to closing the information gap on blockchain technology adoption, promotion, and use between small and medium-sized...
Navigating the Complexities of Online Identity and Reputation
Navigating the Complexities of Online Identity and Reputation
Hakikur Rahman. © 2025. 42 pages.
It's critical to grasp digital citizenship in the connected world of today. The term “digital citizenship” describes the ethical and responsible use of technology, especially...
The Ethical Dimensions of Digital Interactions
The Ethical Dimensions of Digital Interactions
Hakikur Rahman. © 2025. 42 pages.
This chapter explores the ethical implications of digital interactions and challenges readers to critically examine their own online conduct as well as the wider effects of their...
Agricultural Crop Recommendations Based on Productivity and Season
Agricultural Crop Recommendations Based on Productivity and Season
A. V. Senthil Kumar, Aparna M., Amit Dutta, Samrat Ray, Hakikur Rahman, Shadi R. Masadeh, Ismail Bin Musirin, Manjunatha Rao L., Suganya R. V., Ravisankar Malladi, Uma N. Dulhare. © 2024. 16 pages.
This chapter aims to develop an agricultural crop recommendation system leveraging the power of machine learning algorithms. The proposed system takes into account crop...
Achieving Organizational Agility, Intelligence, and Resilience Through Information Systems
Achieving Organizational Agility, Intelligence, and Resilience Through Information Systems
Hakikur Rahman. © 2022. 350 pages.
As technology continues to be a ubiquitous force that propels businesses to success, it is imperative that updated studies are continuously undertaken to ensure that the most...
Organizational Sustainability: Characteristics of Agility
Organizational Sustainability: Characteristics of Agility
Hakikur Rahman. © 2022. 31 pages.
An organization with its capacity to endure, add up value, and promote value chain could be seen as a sustainable organization. Sustainability could be in the form of short-...
Open Innovation Strategies in SMEs: Development of a Business Model
Open Innovation Strategies in SMEs: Development of a Business Model
Hakikur Rahman. © 2022. 26 pages.
Open innovation in enterprises has already obtained its acceptance at all levels of the business industry for adding worth to the business. The value could be in the form of...
Towards Making a Sustainable Organization
Towards Making a Sustainable Organization
Hakikur Rahman. © 2022. 31 pages.
Sustainable development refers to an economic, environmental, and social development aspect that meets the demands of the contemporary context and does not prevent future...
Human-Computer Interaction and Technology Integration in Modern Society
Human-Computer Interaction and Technology Integration in Modern Society
Hakikur Rahman. © 2021. 347 pages.
Technology has opened a wide window of novel communication methods and techniques and has become ubiquitous in modern society. With advancements occurring rapidly and...
Preface
Preface
Hakikur Rahman. © 2021. 7 pages.
This Preface is included in the book Ubiquitous Technologies for Human Development and Knowledge Management.
Open Innovation: Reaching Out to the Grass Roots Through SMEs – Exploring Concerns of Opportunities and Challenges to Attain Economic Sustainability
Open Innovation: Reaching Out to the Grass Roots Through SMEs – Exploring Concerns of Opportunities and Challenges to Attain Economic Sustainability
Hakikur Rahman. © 2021. 34 pages.
While talking about successful entrepreneurship and value addition within an enterprise through innovation, one could comprehend that the innovation paradigm has been shifted...
Dimensions of Researches for Open Innovation in SMEs
Dimensions of Researches for Open Innovation in SMEs
Hakikur Rahman. © 2021. 30 pages.
Innovation has been treated as a recognized driver of economic prosperity of a country through the sustained growth of its entrepreneurships. Moreover, the recently coined term...
Open Innovation in SMEs: Contexts of Developing and Transitional Countries
Open Innovation in SMEs: Contexts of Developing and Transitional Countries
Hakikur Rahman. © 2021. 25 pages.
Despite the increased acceptance by corporate business houses around the globe, the adaptation of strategies and concepts belonging to the newly evolved dimension of...
Framework of E-Governance at the Grass Roots Level
Framework of E-Governance at the Grass Roots Level
Hakikur Rahman. © 2021. 37 pages.
E-government theories are prevailing in a variety of formats and concepts around the globe, nations, and institutions, but there are not many examples to emulate in terms of...
Empowerment of Grass Roots Communities Through Information-Driven Learning
Empowerment of Grass Roots Communities Through Information-Driven Learning
Hakikur Rahman. © 2021. 28 pages.
Methodologies involving issues to empower remotely distributed communities localized with sub-standard or lower-standard information backbone are still in demand of imperative...
Knowledge Management Portals for Empowering General Public and Societies
Knowledge Management Portals for Empowering General Public and Societies
Hakikur Rahman. © 2021. 28 pages.
With the advent of the web technologies, portals are providing a wide range of comprehensive support for information processing and management focusing on content management with...
Preface
Preface
Hakikur Rahman. © 2016. 6 pages.
This Preface is included in the book Human Development and Interaction in the Age of Ubiquitous Technology.
Research Dimensions of Open Innovation in Small and Medium Enterprises
Research Dimensions of Open Innovation in Small and Medium Enterprises
Hakikur Rahman. © 2016. 29 pages.
Innovation is treated as a recognized driver of economic prosperity of a country through the sustained growth of its entrepreneurships. Moreover, recently coined term open...
Open Innovation in Small and Medium Enterprises: Perspectives of Developing and Transitional Economies
Open Innovation in Small and Medium Enterprises: Perspectives of Developing and Transitional Economies
Hakikur Rahman. © 2016. 23 pages.
In spite of the increased acceptance by most of the corporate business houses around the world, the adaptation of strategies and concepts belonging to the newly evolved dimension...
Open Innovation: Reaching out to the Grass Roots through SMEs – Exploring Issues of Opportunities and Challenges to Reach Economic Sustainability
Open Innovation: Reaching out to the Grass Roots through SMEs – Exploring Issues of Opportunities and Challenges to Reach Economic Sustainability
Hakikur Rahman. © 2016. 35 pages.
While talking about successful entrepreneurship and value addition within an enterprise through innovation, one could realize that the innovation paradigm has been shifted from...
Collaborative Research (CR): To Reduce Transaction Cost in Open Innovation
Collaborative Research (CR): To Reduce Transaction Cost in Open Innovation
Amiram Porath, Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos. © 2015. 12 pages.
As a conceptual study this chapter takes open innovation as a tool that has been considered from the point of view of collaboration between the Industry and the Academy. However...
Data Mining Techniques to Improve Early Warning Systems across the Bay of Bengal: A Bangladesh Perspective
Data Mining Techniques to Improve Early Warning Systems across the Bay of Bengal: A Bangladesh Perspective
Hakikur Rahman. © 2014. 35 pages.
This chapter is a conceptual contribution to this book on data mining applications upholding ethical issues related to two extremely important aspects of the Bangladeshi...
Innovation in Learning and Rise of the Internet: Grassroots Human Development
Innovation in Learning and Rise of the Internet: Grassroots Human Development
Hakikur Rahman. © 2014. 19 pages.
Innovation includes almost all spheres of human life and society with the upsurge of technology. Ranging from basic human needs, societal requirements, capacity development, and...
Stages of E-Government Maturity Models: Emergence of E-Governance at the Grass Roots
Stages of E-Government Maturity Models: Emergence of E-Governance at the Grass Roots
Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos. © 2014. 19 pages.
E-Government and e-Governance are the two terms within the governance system that need to be attended through clarity, distinctness, and justification. No matter how the stages...
Information Systems and Technology for Organizational Agility, Intelligence, and Resilience
Information Systems and Technology for Organizational Agility, Intelligence, and Resilience
Hakikur Rahman, Rui Dinis de Sousa. © 2014. 355 pages.
Knowledge of scientific and technological developments, and the flexible communication and decision making, knowledge sharing, and collaboration that stem from them, can enable...
Empowerment of SMEs Through Open Innovation Strategies: Life Cycle of Technology Management
Empowerment of SMEs Through Open Innovation Strategies: Life Cycle of Technology Management
Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos. © 2013. 18 pages.
Adoption of innovation strategies in entrepreneurship is an age old phenomenon, but inclusion of open innovation or collaborative innovation strategies in the business processes...
Open Innovation in SMEs: From Closed Peripheries to Networked Paradigm
Open Innovation in SMEs: From Closed Peripheries to Networked Paradigm
Hakikur Rahman. © 2013. 15 pages.
Successful innovation is a key to business growth. In the realm of technological development, innovation processes have been transformed into various forms, like open innovation...
Research and Practices on Open Innovation: Perspectives on SMEs
Research and Practices on Open Innovation: Perspectives on SMEs
Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos. © 2013. 23 pages.
Innovation has become a recognized driver of economic prosperity of a country through sustained growth of its entrepreneurships. Moreover, recently coined term open innovation is...
A Research Model for Open Innovation: Synthesizing Opportunities and Challenges Surrounding SMEs
A Research Model for Open Innovation: Synthesizing Opportunities and Challenges Surrounding SMEs
Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos. © 2013. 23 pages.
With the advent of innovative technologies and long the setting of entrepreneurship development philosophy, context and business handling have been transformed from being...
Open Innovation Strategies in SMEs: Development of a Business Model
Open Innovation Strategies in SMEs: Development of a Business Model
Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos. © 2013. 13 pages.
Open innovation in entrepreneurships already finds its acceptance at all levels of the business industry for adding value to the business. The value could be in the form of...
Open Innovation in SMEs of Developing and Transitional Economies
Open Innovation in SMEs of Developing and Transitional Economies
Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos. © 2013. 19 pages.
Despite being accepted by corporate entrepreneurs and large business houses around the globe, the adaptation of strategies and concepts belonging to the newly evolved dimension...
Open Innovation: Opportunities and Challenges for SMEs
Open Innovation: Opportunities and Challenges for SMEs
Hakikur Rahman. © 2013. 14 pages.
With the advent of innovative technologies and multi-dimensional researches along the setting of entrepreneurship development, philosophy, context and business handling has been...
Trends of Open Innovation in Developing Nations: Contexts of SMEs
Trends of Open Innovation in Developing Nations: Contexts of SMEs
Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos. © 2013. 16 pages.
Evidently, innovation is a genuine reality within the entrepreneurships, given the circumstances of economic crisis, global competition, and novelties of technologies. Perplexing...
Data Mining Techniques to Improve Early Warning Systems across the Bay of Bengal: A Bangladesh Perspective
Data Mining Techniques to Improve Early Warning Systems across the Bay of Bengal: A Bangladesh Perspective
Hakikur Rahman. © 2013. 34 pages.
This chapter is a conceptual contribution to this book on data mining applications upholding ethical issues related to two extremely important aspects of the Bangladeshi...
Data Mining Algorithms for Measuring Performance Impact of Social Development Processes: Ethical Implications
Data Mining Algorithms for Measuring Performance Impact of Social Development Processes: Ethical Implications
Hakikur Rahman. © 2013. 33 pages.
This chapter has given focus on data mining applications and their utilizations in formulating performance measuring tools for social development initiatives upholding ethical...
Preface
Preface
Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos. © 2012. 7 pages.
This Preface is included in the book Cases on SMEs and Open Innovation: Applications and Investigations.
Preface
Preface
Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos. © 2012. 6 pages.
This Preface is included in the book SMEs and Open Innovation: Global Cases and Initiatives.
Mobile Computing Techniques in Emerging Markets: Systems, Applications and Services
Mobile Computing Techniques in Emerging Markets: Systems, Applications and Services
A.V. Senthil Kumar, Hakikur Rahman. © 2012. 376 pages.
Mobile computing facilitates data transmission without needing to be connected to a fixed physical link. Mobile voice communication is widely established throughout the world and...
Trends of Open Innovation in Developing Nations: Contexts of SMEs
Trends of Open Innovation in Developing Nations: Contexts of SMEs
Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos. © 2012. 16 pages.
Evidently, innovation is a genuine reality within the entrepreneurships, given the circumstances of economic crisis, global competition, and novelties of technologies. Perplexing...
Research and Practices on Open Innovation: Perspectives on SMEs
Research and Practices on Open Innovation: Perspectives on SMEs
Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos. © 2012. 23 pages.
Innovation has become a recognized driver of economic prosperity of a country through sustained growth of its entrepreneurships. Moreover, recently coined term open innovation is...
A Research Model for Open Innovation: Synthesizing Opportunities and Challenges Surrounding SMEs
A Research Model for Open Innovation: Synthesizing Opportunities and Challenges Surrounding SMEs
Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos. © 2012. 23 pages.
With the advent of innovative technologies and long the setting of entrepreneurship development philosophy, context and business handling have been transformed from being...
Open Innovation Strategies in SMEs: Development of a Business Model
Open Innovation Strategies in SMEs: Development of a Business Model
Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos. © 2012. 14 pages.
Open innovation in entrepreneurships already finds its acceptance at all levels of the business industry for adding value to the business. The value could be in the form of...
Mobile Computing: An Emerging Issue in the Digitized World
Mobile Computing: An Emerging Issue in the Digitized World
Hakikur Rahman, Senthil Kumar. © 2012. 22 pages.
With the advent of complex but user friendly mobile communications technologies and transformation of mobile devices being handy for usage, the applications and utilities of...
Open Innovation in SMEs of Developing and Transitional Economies
Open Innovation in SMEs of Developing and Transitional Economies
Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos. © 2012. 19 pages.
Despite being accepted by corporate entrepreneurs and large business houses around the globe, the adaptation of strategies and concepts belonging to the newly evolved dimension...
Open Innovation: Opportunities and Challenges for SMEs
Open Innovation: Opportunities and Challenges for SMEs
Hakikur Rahman. © 2011. 14 pages.
With the advent of innovative technologies and multi-dimensional researches along the setting of entrepreneurship development, philosophy, context and business handling has been...
Open Innovation in SMEs: From Closed Peripheries to Networked Paradigm
Open Innovation in SMEs: From Closed Peripheries to Networked Paradigm
Hakikur Rahman. © 2011. 16 pages.
Successful innovation is a key to business growth. In the realm of technological development, innovation processes have been transformed into various forms, like open innovation...
Human Development and Global Advancements through Information Communication Technologies: New Initiatives
Human Development and Global Advancements through Information Communication Technologies: New Initiatives
Susheel Chhabra, Hakikur Rahman. © 2011. 386 pages.
Technology’s role in facilitating and furthering human development is of equal significance to its role in promoting inequality and tension between groups and individuals. Human...
Empowerment of SMEs Through Open Innovation Strategies: Life Cycle of Technology Management
Empowerment of SMEs Through Open Innovation Strategies: Life Cycle of Technology Management
Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos. © 2011. 16 pages.
Adoption of innovation strategies in entrepreneurship is an age old phenomenon, but inclusion of open innovation or collaborative innovation strategies in the business processes...
Advances in Social Networking and Online Communities
Advances in Social Networking and Online Communities
Hakikur Rahman. 2010.
The advancements of internet technologies and the creation of various social networks provide a new channel of knowledge development processes that's dependent on social...
Data Mining Applications for Empowering Knowledge Societies
Data Mining Applications for Empowering Knowledge Societies
Hakikur Rahman. © 2009. 356 pages.
Data Mining techniques are gradually becoming essential components of corporate intelligence systems and progressively evolving into a pervasive technology within activities that...
International Journal of Information Communication Technologies and Human Development (IJICTHD)
International Journal of Information Communication Technologies and Human Development (IJICTHD)
Hakikur Rahman. Est. 2009.
Information and communication technologies are directly influencing the way human beings are engaging themselves in their routine activities. The governance including...
Developing Successful ICT Strategies: Competitive Advantages in a Global Knowledge-Driven Society
Developing Successful ICT Strategies: Competitive Advantages in a Global Knowledge-Driven Society
Hakikur Rahman. © 2008. 420 pages.
Developing Successful ICT Strategies: Competitive Advantages in a Global Knowledge-Driven Society collects an authoritative core of research investigating the notion that...
Empowering Marginal Communities with Information Networking
Empowering Marginal Communities with Information Networking
Hakikur Rahman. © 2006. 363 pages.
Empowering Marginal Communities with Information Networking provides valuable insights into the successes and challenges faced by development project implementers around the...
International Journal of Knowledge Management (IJKM)
International Journal of Knowledge Management (IJKM)
Hakikur Rahman. Est. 2005.
The International Journal of Knowledge Management (IJKM) provides a forum for academics, researchers, and educators to analyze global aspects of knowledge management from...