Contributors
- Contributors
Jaffar A. Alalwan is a lecturer at the Institute of Public Administration in Saudi Arabia. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Information Systems at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has published research in the areas of strategic information systems planning, enterprise content management systems, electronic government, and the Semantic Web. Alalwan holds an MBA from The University of Scranton in Management Information Systems and Marketing, and a BS in Business Administration from King Abdul Aziz University.
Manoj A. Thomas is an assistant professor and Director of Technology in the Department of Information Systems at Virginia Commonwealth University. He holds a Ph.D. in Information Systems, a MS in Information Systems, and an MBA. His primary research interests include The Semantic Web, knowledge engineering, and ICT4D. He has been published in many practitioner and academic journals and has presented at various Information Systems conferences. An electronic engineer by trade and an avid travel buff by choice, he rides and works on motorcycles when he wants to get away from the digital realm.
Jan C. Huntgeburth is a PhD candidate and research assistant at the Business School of the University of Mannheim. He holds a diploma in business informatics (equivalent to M.Sc.) from Mannheim for which he has also been visiting Edinburgh University. His research work focuses on the management and use of information systems in the public sector.
Dennis M. Steininger is a PhD candidate and research assistant at the Business School of the University of Mannheim. He holds a diploma in business (equivalent to M.Sc.) from Mannheim for which he has also been visiting London School of Economics and Political Science. His research focuses on business models, services and associated impacts of Social Media and Web 2.0.
Nils P. Parasie holds a PhD from the University of Mannheim for which he has worked as a research assistant. He holds a diploma in business informatics (equivalent to M.Sc.) from Mannheim for which he has also been visiting Edinburgh University. His research focuses on interoperability and applicability of information technologies in the public sector. [End Page 98]
Daniel J. Veit is a full professor at the University of Mannheim Business School, Germany and holds the Dieter Schwarz Endowed Chair of Business Administration, E-Business and E-Government since 2006. Since 2007 he is the academic director of the ESSEC&Mannheim Weekend Executive MBA Program at Mannheim Business School. His research is conducted in three main fields: e-business, e-government and e-energy.
Marco Prandini is a research associate at the University of Bologna, Italy, where he got his PhD in electronic and computer engineering in 2000. His research activities started in the field of public-key infrastructures and later moved to subjects related to computing systems security, high availability, and system administration. More recently, his interests started including the application of security to social fields where computing devices are becoming pervasive, like social networks and e-government. He is also committed to teaching and to foster knowledge trasfer to and from the industry. He has developed the course of System Administration for the Computer Engineering bachelor program in his university in 2005 and has been teaching it since then.
Marco Ramilli is a computer researcher with an intensive hacking background. PhD candidate at University of Bologna, Marco has been working with the US Government (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Security Division) and currently collaborates closely wiht University of California, Davis (Security Labs) on new security paradigms, penetration testing methodologies and electronic voting systems’ security and Malware. He tested some of most popular electronic voting systems in commerce, including Diebold, Sequoia, Hart, Scantegrity, and PVote. In his stay at NIST, he was involved in the project to improve the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG) standard, focalizing on the Open Ended Vulnerability Testing chapter (OEVT). He collaborates with different international agencies and he is an active member of IEEE.
Anne Fleur van Veenstra is a researcher at the Information and Communication Technology section of the department of Technology, Policy and Management of Delft University of Technology. She holds an MSc in Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis and Management from Delft University of Technology (2005...
