Biographies
Conference Chair
Walter Castelnovo , Ph . D ., is Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the University of Insubria ( Italy ). His research interests concern technological and organizational innovation in Public Administration and Interorganizational Information Systems . He is co‐founder of the Research Center for Knowledge and Service Management for Business Applications ( K & SM ) of the University of Insubria and he is member of the Scientific Committee of the Interdepartmental Center for Organizational Innovation in Public Administration of the University of Milan . He is also member of the Department of Institutional Reforms , E‐Government and Institutional Federalism of the Association of the Municipalities of Lombardia ( Italy ). He served as member of the committee for many international conferences on E‐ Government and ICT evaluation ; and he was the General Chair of The 5th European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation ( ECIME ). He is co‐founder of the “ ICT for Development International School ” ( ICT4DEVIS ) and is the Director of the first edition of the school in 2012 .
Programme Chair
Elena Ferrari is a full professor of Computer Science at the University of Insubria , Italy and scientific director of the K & SM Research Center . She received the IEEE Computer Society ’ s prestigious 2009 Technical Achievement Award for “ outstanding and innovative contributions to secure data management ”. In 2011 , she has been named ACM Distinguished Scientist and she received a Google research award for her research on social network privacy . Her research activities are related to various aspects of data management , including access control , privacy and trust in social networks , secure cloud computing and emergency management , secure semantic web , multimedia databases . On these topics she has published more than 170 scientific publications in international journals and conference proceedings . She gave several invited lectures and tutorials in Italian and foreign universities as well as on international conferences and workshops . Prof . Ferrari is in the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering , the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing , the Transactions on Data Privacy , and the International Journal of Information Technology ( IJIT ). She is a distinguished member of the ACM and senior member of IEEE .
Keynote Speakers
Dr Gianluca Misuraca is a Senior Scientist at the Information Society Unit of the European Commission ' s Joint Research Centre , Institute for Prospective Technological Studies ( IPTS ) based in Seville , Spain . Before joining IPTS , he was the Managing Director of the Global Executive Master in e‐ Governance at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne ( EPFL ). Previously he held several positions as policy advisor for different International Organisations and bilateral cooperation agencies as well as working with various consulting and industrial organisations in the area of e‐Government , regional development , research and innovation . His background is economics with focus on the interface between ICTs and public administration , specialised in the area of business process reengineering and e‐Transformation . He holds also a Diploma of Specialisation in European Union Economics and Law , a specialisation in Security Management , an Executive Master in e‐Governance and a PhD in Management of Technology from EPFL .
Dr Antonio Cordella is a Lecturer in Information Systems at the London School of Economics and Political Science . His main research focus is on the impact of ICT on public sector organisation and government service delivery . He has published extensively in the area of e‐government . He has led and participated in international research projects looking at different aspect associated to the deployment of ICT to reform public sector organisations . His most recent contributions in the e‐government field are : Cordella , Willcocks , L . paper " Government Policy , Public Value and IT Outsourcing : The Strategic Case of ASPIRE ", Journal of Strategic Information Systems , Forthcoming ; Cordella , A ., Bonina , C . “ A Public Value Perspective for ICT Enabled Public Sector Reforms : A theoretical reflection ”, Government Information Quarterly ( 2012 ), vol . 29 ( 4 ), pp . 512‐520 ; Cordella , A ., Iannacci , F . “ Information systems in the Public Sector : the e‐Government enactment framework ", Journal of Strategic Information Systems ( 2010 ), 19 ( 1 ), pp . 52‐66 ; Cordella , A ., Willcocks , L . “ Outsourcing , Bureaucracy and Public Value : Reappraising the notion of the “ contract state ””, Government Information Quarterly ( 2010 ) 27 ( 1 ), pp . 82‐88 .
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