Paul Alpar:
Paul Alpar is Professor of Business Administration and Management Information Systems in the School of Business Administration and Economics, Philipps University at Marburg. He is author of four books and many articles that appeared in such journals as J. of MIS, Int. J. of Electronic Commerce, or IEEE Trans. on Engineering Management.

Paul Alpar

Dr Dan Remenyi:
Dr Dan Remenyi is a Visiting Professor in Information Systems Management at the School of Systems and Data Studies at Trinity College Dublin and an associated member of Faculty at Henley Management College in the United Kingdom. His original academic interests are in the field of information systems management and he has researched and been published widely in that area.

In recent years he has taken a strong interest in research methodology and the sociology of research. He now works extensively with research candidates and their supervisors at both doctoral and masters level. He conducts a number of seminars to topics related to improving effective academic research and obtaining better results. He has authored or co-authored more than 30 books and some 50 academically refereed papers. He is published in all 4 of the A rated Journals in the United Kingdom in Information Systems Management. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of Acta Commercii ( a general management journal) and the Journal of Information Technology. He is the editor of the Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation and advisor to a number of other electronic journals.

Dan Remenyi

Matthias Finger
Matthias Finger Ph.D, Political Science, Ph.D., Adult Education (both University of Geneva) is currently Chair and Professor of Management of Network Industries as well as Dean of the School of Continuing Education at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL). He focuses on the liberalisation of the main network industries’ sectors – postal services, telecommunications, energy, public transport, water, and air transport –, on the changes undergone by the historical operators in these sectors, and in issues of regulation and public service. He is particularly interested in the implications of the new information and communication technologies. He has written numerous articles and books on this subject and consults with public enterprises, as well as with public administrations and political authorities in Switzerland and internationally. Previously, he was a professor in the United States at Syracuse University (1989-1991) and Columbia University (1992-1994) and at the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (19995-2002).

Matthias Finger

Mary Griffiths
Dr. Mary Griffiths joined the Department of Screen and Media Studies, University of Waikato in 2004 as Associate Professor and departmental research co-ordinator. She is affiliated with Monash University as a Research Associate, for both the Media Governance Research Panel (Faculty of Business and Economics) and the Institute for Regional Studies, Gippsland Campus. Her research interests are in the social and political uses of new media: specifically, the cultures of e-democracy, online environment and mobile media, audiences and users of ICTs as citizens and content providers, media ethics, and regulation. With twenty years experience as a distance educator, she has also published on e-learning and new media forms, such as blogs. She is co-editing a special issue of Media International Australia, ‘A Clever Little Country? : Cultural Change and Identity in New Zealand’; and, for Southern Review : Communication, Politics and Culture , an issue on ‘Media and Belief in an Interdependent World.’ Her current projects include identifying democratic directions in mobile research, the organisation of online religion, and mobile civic art.

Mary Griffiths

Bruno de Vuyst:
Bruno de Vuyst is associate professor at Vesalius College, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Advisor Industrial Policy, VUB as well as secretary-general of BI³ Fund N.V., the VUB incubation and spin-off fund with an equity capital of 6 mio euro. He is of counsel at Lawfort, Brussels, and an elected representative of the Flemish Bar Association general assembly. Bruno de Vuyst specializes in IP law and has written extensively on legal aspects of the Internet and of virtual organizations, as well as on IP-ICT and ethics.

Bruno de Vuyst