Singaporean Nisar Keshvani is a consultant, Internet journalist, web developer, educator and new media specialist. In the last decade, he has worked across five continents (Asia, Africa, Europe, North America and Australia/Oceania).

Nisar Keshvani lectures at Republic Polytechnic's Centre for Culture and Communication. He is involved with their recently launched Diploma in Information and Communication Design. He is also an Aga Khan Foundation Scholar based in the London Knowledge Lab pursuing his doctoral research with the Institute of Education (University of London). Nisar’s PhD research project is on the use of information communication technology as an instructional interface to develop innovative and user friendly teaching and learning interactions. His research focuses particularly on developing country context where the infrastructure and availability of equipment is limited.

He is editor-in-chief of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac (http://leoalmanac.org) and International Co-Editor of fineArt forum (http://www.fineartforum.org) - one of the Internet's longest runing arts publication. He has worked for various international magazines and newspapers since 1993.

Keshvani sits on the board of the Art, Science, Technology Network (ASTN), Leonardo/International Society for the Arts, Sciences & Technology; fineArt forum and on SIGGRAPH's Singapore Chapter Management Committee. He is Program Advisor (Asia Pacific) of the Brisbane Multimedia Art Asia Pacific (MAAP) Festival.

Keshvani has extensive experience developing and maintaining websites and was an online journalism educator at Queensland University of Technology, Australia, examining internationalization issues and changing work practices in the online newsroom. He was also Digital Media Lecturer and module leader for Web Design Applications with Ngee Ann Polytechnic's School of Film & Media Studies in Singapore.

In 2003 - 2004, Keshvani was on consultancy with the Aga Khan Development Network (a group of international development agencies working in health, education, culture and rural and economic development, primarily in Asia and Africa). As Website Manager he strategised and developed websites for the international aid agency’s hospital and school services in East Africa, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Tajikistan and the Krygyz Republic.

Areas of interest include; instructional science, curriculum development, new media technologies, media convergence, WWW development, online content management, technology in education and information architecture.

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