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

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Minitrack Leaders

Jerald Hughes received his PhD degree in business and computer information systems from the Zicklin School of Business, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, in 2006, having taught at CUNY’s Baruch College since 1999. Beginning in 2006, he served as assistant professor in the CIS department of the College of Business Administration of the University of Texas–Pan American in the Rio Grande Valley and was promoted to associate professor, effective fall 2012. He served the college as associate dean for undergraduate education from 2011 to 2015 and is now the chair of the Information Systems Department of the College of Business and Entrepreneurship in the newly created University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. His research interests include digital information goods, e-commerce, information systems security, and text analytics.

Margit Scholl, PhD has been a professor since 1994 and since 2001 Professor of Business Informatics and Administrative IT in the Faculty of Business, Computing, and Law at the Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau (TUASW) in Brandenburg, located to the southeast of Berlin. Her areas of interest cover project management, including e-government services and user experience and expectation; process management, including change and risk management; business applications and document management systems (eAkte); multimedia, including learning methodologies as authentic problem- and project-based blended learning. One of her main research themes of the last decade has been information security, data protection, and awareness. She founded the Wildau Institute for Innovative Teaching, Lifelong Learning and Evaluation (WILLE) in the Technology Center e.V. for Continuing Education in 2010, where she runs certification courses providing qualification as Information Security Officer and Data Protection Officer for Public Administration and SMEs. Together with her team and research partners, she also develops the “IT Security Arena” with game-based awareness-raising scenarios geared to specific target groups. For her, awareness is a fundamental issue.

Suha AlAwadhi received her PhD in information science from Loughborough University, United Kingdom, in 2007. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Studies at the College of Social Sciences, Kuwait University, Kuwait. Her main research interests are in e-government, technology acceptance, the usability and evaluation of information systems, social media, social inclusion, and knowledge sharing. Dr. AlAwadhi has written and published a number of articles on a variety of professional topics in regional and international journals and delivered many international conference presentations, seminars, and workshops.