Devinder Thapa is a Research Fellow at the University of Agder, Norway. He has completed his PhD in Industrial and Information Systems Engineering in 2008 from Ajou University, South Korea. His research interests are Discrete Event Systems, ICT4D, eGov, and Socio-Technical Systems. He is particularly interested in understanding the interaction process between ICT and Social Capital, and its consequences on Socio-Economic development of remote communities in the mountain regions of developing countries. His work has been published in international conferences such as Winter Simulation Conference, Summer Simulation Conference, IFIP WG 9.4 Conference, and Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences(HICSS). He has published in international journals such as Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems, Communications of the AIS, Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, Information Technology for Development, and Journal of Pattern Recognition Letters.