Jeroen Meij is a manager at KPMG Advisory N. V. in the Netherlands since 2008. With experience in design and consultancy, the link between technology and business always has his special attention. Topics include data mining, ontologies, open source and open standards. He has been involved in many Agile software development projects, often using innovative concepts.
Adela Mesa is a Ph. D. teacher at the Department of Political Science and Administration in the University of the Basque Country. She has directed several eGovernment research since 2002. She currently heads a research funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology titled: Barriers to electronic government and intergovernmental relations in the Spanish regional administrations system( 2010‐2012).
Mohamed Ali Mohamed is a PhD researcher at Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University. He has Syrian nationality, He holds BSc in Informatics Engineering and MSc in Information systems, and his research interests include: E‐ government, Enterprise Architecture, Software Engineering, Project Management, SOA and Cloud Computing.
José María Moreno‐Jiménez received the degrees in mathematics and economics, and the Ph. D. degree in applied mathematics from the University of Zaragoza( Spain), where he is a Full Professor of Operations Research. He is also the Chair of the Zaragoza Multicriteria Decision‐Making Group. He has published more than 180 papers in scientific books and journals.
Ricard Munné is Project Manager in the Public Sector Unit in Atos Research and Innovation since 2011. Previously, he had worked in Atos as Project Manager and Consultant in Public Sector projects for four years. Ricard has a degree as Telecommunications Technical Engineer and pursued a Master in Information Technology Management.
Professor Malcolm Munro is emeritus professor of Software Engineering in the School of Engineering and Computing Sciences at Durham University. His main research focus is in the areas of Software Visualisation, Software Maintenance and Evolution. He has also been involved with research in Web Services, protocols for fair exchange of electronic goods, and Reputation Systems.
Fattah Nazem is an Associate Professor. He has been vice‐president of the research department for the last five years. His research interests are in the field of Higher Education Management. He has written 2 books and 94 articles. He is Chief Executive of the Quarterly Journal of Educational Science.
Francesco Niglia worked more than 10 years as consultant for Technology Transfer and holds focus expertise in the ICT for government solutions domain. Key assignment: manager of the NET‐EUCEN network within which he is responsible for the development and validation of eGovernment indicators for measuring the application of User Centricity methodology in services to citizens.
Paul G. Nixon Principal Lecturer in Politics at ESCM, The Hague University, The Netherlands. Paul co‐edited Understanding E Government in Europe( with V Koutrakou and R Rawal 2010) E‐Government in Europe( V Koutrakou 2007), Political Parties and the Internet( S Ward and R Gibson 2003.) and Cyberprotest( W van der Donk, B Loader and D Rucht, 2004)
Donald F. Norris is a specialist in public management, urban politics, and the application, uses and impacts of information technology( including e‐government) in public organizations. He holds a B. S. in history from the University of Memphis and both an M. A. and a Ph. D. in government from the University of Virginia.
Olaseni Muritala Okunola is a PhD student; his research focuses on the ICT user experience, user satisfaction, user experience of mandatory technology acceptance and ICT Policy, and e‐inclusion. He holds a Master of Science degree in Business Information Systems and a Master of Business Administration. He is preparing a Ph. D on User Experience of e‐Government Services.
Svein Ølnes I work as a full time researcher at the Western Norway Research Institute, in the ICT departement. My field of research is eGovernment and within that field I have worked mostly with quality and benchmarking issues as well as interoperability and the use of semantic technologies.
Wolfgang Palka is a research associate and PhD student at the Chair for Information Systems at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen. His research interests include open government data, e‐government, and mobile commerce. He was awarded for the best research of the year in the Journal of Information Technology( 2009) for a contribution on mobile viral marketing.
Monica Palmirani is an associate professor of Computer Science and Law at Bologna University, School of Law, Italy. She teacher of several courses since 2001 on Legal Informatics, eGovernment, Legal drafting techniques, and Legal XML. She is director of Italian Society of Legal Informatics, of the LAST‐JD Ph. D programme and consultant of the government agency for Italian Digital Agenda. xv