HICSS - 53 Digital Government Track
53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
January 7-10, 2020 - Grand Wailea, Maui, HI, USA

Description

Minitrack Leaders

Erwin Folmer is research associate at the Industrial Engineering & Business Information Systems department at the University Twente. Before that, he worked as senior scientist on the topic of interoperability and standards. From 2009 he part-time joined the University of Twente to start a PhD research on the standardization topic, while continuing his work for TNO. In 2012 received his PhD based on the "Quality of Semantic Standards" thesis. In 2013-2014 Erwin was visiting researcher at ERCIS/University of Munster. From 2015 onwards Erwin joined Kadaster, the Dutch land registry mapping agency. Erwin also leads the Platform Linked Data Netherlands; an open community on Linked Data knowledge exchange and implementations. https://www.linkedin.com/in/erwinfolmer

Thomas Lampoltshammer is Assistant Professor and Deputy Head of the Centre for E-Governance in the Department of E-Governance and Administration at the Danube University Krems/Austria. Prior to his current position, he worked as a researcher and lecturer in Applied Informatics in the School of Information Technology and Systems Management at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences Salzburg/Austria. His research interests include, but are not limited to, Geoinformatics, Semantics, Open Data, Data Visualization and Software Engineering. His project experience as PI includes EU-funded research projects and national grants in the domain of data management, organizational theory and ICT in public administration. He is co-founder and co-chair of the International Data Science Conference (iDSC) series,;as well as member of the ICA Commission on Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization. Besides, he acts as reviewer for several international conferences as well as for numerous SCI-indexed journals.His current research focus is in the domain of open data, the effects of ICT application in a connected society and the effects on a data-driven society.

Charalampos Alexopoulos is a visiting professor at the Department of Information and Communications Systems Engineering of the University of the Aegean, teaching e-government interoperability and information systems management. He has published in numerous international conferences and journals on open data quality, evaluation and infrastructures; decision support systems and artificial intelligence in e-government and smart cities. Charalampos is also a Senior Scientist at the Information Systems Laboratory conducting research on various European and National funded research and pilot application projects on open data (ENGAGE, SHARE-PSI 2.0), semantic and organizational interoperability (PLUG-IN) and text and data mining for decision support (EU-COMMUNITY, PADGETS, NOMAD) and legal information analytics (ManyLaws). Charalampos serves as a track (co-)chair in the MCIS, EGOV, ICDS, ICEDEG and ICEGOV international conferences as well as a Programme co-chair in the annual Samos Summit on ICT-enabled Governance. He is currently the project manager of the Gov 3.0 project "Scientific foundations, training and entrepreneurship activities in the domain of ICT-enabled Governance". More information at: https://gr.linkedin.com/in/xalexopoulos