Nripendra P. Rana is an associate professor in the School of Management at Swansea University. With an academic and professional background in Mathematics and Computer Science and a PhD in Information Systems, his current research interests focus primarily upon adoption of emerging and cutting edge technology in general and e-government, m-government, e-commerce and m-commerce systems in particular. His work has been published in leading academic journals such as European Journal of Marketing, Information Systems Frontiers, Government Information Quarterly and Computers in Human Behavior.