Richard Kerby

Richard Kerby is recognized international expert of digital government and has participated as keynote speakers in many international workshops and seminars. In addition, he is a Senior Digital Transformation Strategist with successful track record of advising national administrations across the world at the levels of Heads of State, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister, and Director Generals on ICT for Development, focusing on financial and technical value. Skilled in transforming strategic plans into workable policy solutions, benchmarking performance against sustainable development goals, operational goals, and international targets to accelerate and deliver digital transformation initiatives. Access to unrivalled global network of e-government experts, thought leaders, accredited academics, and high-level politicians.

He has recently worked with the governments of Qatar, Bahrain, Serbia, and Kazakhstan to strengthen their respective digital transformation in public government to improve their respective international ranking. As a result, Qatar improved its ranking in the 2024 OSI by twenty-seven positions and Bahrain improved its ranking in the 2024 OSI by thirty-one positions. Kazakhstan is ranked 24th globally on the UN E-Government Survey but is ranked 10th globally in the 2024 Online Service Index (OSI) as the result of the support of Richard Kerby LLC. Serbia was supported in 2025 for the 2026 UN e-Government Survey.

In conjunction with the Centre for Technology in Government (CTG) at the University at Albany, NY, created a Digital Government Maturity Model Framework, a comprehensive digital government survey which covers Government’s interaction with its citizens and residence in providing content, e-services, open government data, e-participation, social media, new technological platforms, transparency, openness and accountability.

He has Led over 120 United Nations advisory missions in 34 countries as a UN Senior Inter-Regional Adviser. The mission supported emerging, developed, developing, least developed, land-locked countries and Small Island Development States resulting in long-term UN support programs. He has designed and successfully implemented a suite of e-government capacity building tools covering Open Data, Open Innovation, Citizen Engagement and Social Media, to accelerate knowledge in developing countries.

He has supported UAlbany PAD 652 PHD program since 2021. He is a Senior Adviser to the World Scholar Program and the Arab Federation for Digital Economy has selected him as an Expert Member of the Federation’s General Assembly.