Jeroen Pastoor Project manager Monitoring e‐Government Netherlands. Jeroenworks at ICTU, an impartial and professional organisation by and for government organisations. Jeroen working experience with Dutch government organisations improving their eGovernment solutions and strategies. Jeroen was involved in coördination of ICT‐related projects at national / regional level – on implementation and usage of eGovernment solutions. Jeroen is currently interested in measurement of benefits realization, big data and web3.0 solutions.
Cristina Pérez Espés is a Business Administration graduate in the Faculty of Economics, and Business( Zaragoza, Spain). She has participated in several international congresses, such as Asepelt 2012, WSKS 2012 e. t. c, as well as in public and private projects. Currently, Cristina is pursuing Doctoral Thesis in Effectiveness of eCognocracy from financial and economic perspective.
Igor Pihir is a research and teaching assistant and a PhD student at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Organization and Informatics in Varazdin. His research interests are in business process modelling and improvement trough IT and e‐business especially with focus on measurement of e‐business effects in SMEs processes.
Denisa Popescu Senior Enterprise Architect, Office of Chief Enterprise Architect, World Bank. Led and worked on initiatives in enterprise information integration, both structured / unstructured information, Master Data Management, reference data / taxonomies management, and automatic metadata capture using semantic technologies. PhD in Business Administration, George Washington University. Researches areas of knowledge transfer / learning, technology innovation, international regulatory standards, and global governance.
Zoran Radojičić is an associate professor at Faculty of Organizational Sciences in Belgrade, Department of Operational Research and Statistics. He holds a B. A. in Organizational Sciences, a M. Sc. in Statistics and a Ph. D. in Statistics, all from University of Belgrade. His research interests are computational statistics, applied statistics, biostatistics, information systems, Internet and e‐business.
Rajash Rawal Principal Lecturer in Politics at ESCM, The Hague University, The Netherlands. His publications include Politics & the Internet in Comparative Context( with P. G. Nixon & D. Mercea) and Understanding E Government in Europe( with V Koutrakou and P G. Nixon 2010) He specializes in the impact of media on political agents in the modern era.
Arthur Riel is the Chief Enterprise Architect at the World Bank where he is responsible for the overall architectural framework for the Bank and the management of many technology initiatives. Arthur has worked with dozens of companies over a 30 + year period and is a published author / entrepreneur with original research dating back to 1988.
Kassandra Rothernstadt has a BA Honours in Communication studies and an MA in the same field from the University of Calgary, Canada. She is currently a researcher at iMINDS ‐ SMIT while also pursuing her interdisciplinary PhD degree( Faculty of Communication sciences and Faculty of Philosophy and Morals Sciences).
Elena Sánchez‐Nielsen obtained her Ph. D. degree in 2003 in Computer Science from the University of La Laguna. Since 2003, she has been associate professor in the University of La Laguna. She has over 10 years of experience working in projects related to e‐Government and eParticipation. Her interests include intelligent systems, eGovernment, audiovisual contents and social media.
Ninoslava Savić is a lecturer at Higher School of Professional Business Studies in Novi Sad, Department of Informatics. She holds a B. A. in Mathematics from Novi Sad University and a M. Sc. in Information Systems from University of Belgrade. Her research interests are information society, e‐business, information systems and methodologies for measuring e‐ development.
Laura Schina is Consultant at the Centro Cultura Innovativa d ' Impresa – University of Salento providing functional support for the development of studies focused on the implementation of the user centric approach In Public Administrations. She worked as Consultant at Innova S. p. a. and was involved in activities related to the thematic networks in the eGovernment domain.
Shareef Shareef is a Software engineering lecturer, University of Salahaddin. BSc Physics, Mousel University, Iraq( 1990). MSc Digital Communications Networks( 2005), London Metropolitan University.. Shareef worked in ICT Centre, Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in Kurdistan Region, Iraq( 2007). Shareef was a PhD student( 2009) School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering, University of East London. Shareef researches E‐government / cloud computing initiatives in developing countries. Published and reviewed conferences.
Vjaceslavs Sitikovs obtained Dr. sc. ing. in Technical Cybernetics from Riga Technical University in Latvia in 1982. His main research field is computer‐assisted learning systems. He has thirty years experience of teaching in the field of computer science. He has participated in and has led a variety of projects related to improvement of study process.
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