6^thEastern European eGov Days 2008 in Prague

Chair of the SC, Chair of the Forum e|Government – OCG (AT)

Roland Traunmüller is Professor Emeritus with the Institute for Informatics in Business and Government at Linz University, Austria. He has worked in the field of Information Systems and applications of information technology in Government for three decades. In Austria Prof. Traunmüller heads the Forum e-Government, in Germany he is member of the steering body e-Government within the German Computer Society (GI, Bonn). Prof. Traunmüller founded the EGOV conference series with high resonance.

Karel Aim

Czech Academy of Science (CZ)

Karel Aim is a member of the Council for Sciences of the ASCR, participated in design and formulation of the Information Society Programme (as a part of the National Research Programme of the Czech Republic).

Norbert Benamou

eGovernment Interoperability Campus 2007 (FR)

N. Benamou is the executive manager of Business Flow Consulting, a management consulting firm specialised innovation strategy, in particular for the public sector. Since 2004, he is also managing the eGovernment Interoperability Observatory (www.egovinterop.net) which is co-funded by the EC through the IST Integrated Project TERREGOV. In this frame, he is chairing the Scientific Committee of the eGovINTEROP Conferences.

Thomas Buchsbaum

CAHDE (Ad-hoc Commitee on e-Democracy), Council of Europe

Dr. Thomas M. BUCHSBAUM, Minister plenipotentiary, an Austrian career diplomat, currently head of division at the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs. Currently also chairing the working group on e-democracy of the Council of Europe, he  was one the main negotiators of the e-voting recommendation of the Council of Europe, and the author of the international part of an inter-departmental report on e-voting for the Austrian government.

Christoph Glauser

Institute for applied argumentation research IFAAR (CH)

Dr. Christoph Glauser, the founder and president of the Swiss “Institute for applied argumentation research IFAAR”. He is a former lecturer at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, University of Geneva and at the University of Washington Seattle USA. He has developed new methods for measuring the effect and efficiency of e-Government portals. Since October 2007 IFAAR has been accredited by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission.

Jiří Hřebíček

Masaryk University, Brno (CZ)

Prof. Dr. Jiri Hrebicek, Director of science and education of Masaryk University Institute of Biostatistics and Analyzes in Brno. Since 1990 he has been working in the area of environmental informatics, (waste and water management). In the last seven years he has specialized to eGovernment services and eParticipation in environment protection and global sustainability.

Ludmila Gajdošová

NISPACee (SK) -tbc

Krzysztof Glomb

CoI, Cities on Internet (PL)

Alexandr Makarenko

National Technical University, Kiev (UA)

Professor, Doctor of Science, Head of the Applied Nonlinear
Analysis Department. He is working in the fields of system analysis, social informatics,
modeling of large social-economical systems, e-Government, GIS applications and in education.

Josef Makolm

Ministry of Finance (AT)

Josef Makolm, head of division at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance, member of the board of the Austrian Computer Society, co-leader of the Forum e-Government, head of workgroups in the Forum e-Government and the Austrian BLSG-Cooperation, lecturer at Danube University Krems, AT.

Michael E. Milakovich

University of Miami (USA)

Prof. Michael E. Milakovich, Dept. of Political Science, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA. His areas of specialization are: public policy management, quality improvement, administration of justice, and healthcare management. His books include Improving Service Quality in the Global Economy (CRC Press, 2006), Public Administration in America (10th ed). w/ G. Gordon (Wadsworth, 2007).

Jeremy Millard

Danish Technological Institute (DK)

Jeremy Millard, Head of eGovernment at the Danish Technological Institute, has extensive global experience in eGovernment and public sector change, including working on eGovernment research and policy issues for the European Commission (IPTS in Sevilla and DGINFSO, e.g. developing future visions and on eParticipation and inclusive eGovernment), for the OECD (on user take-up and satisfaction) and in Bahrain, Brunei and India on eGovernment implementation assignments.

Christine Leitner

CEPA /Danube University (AT)

Dr. Christine Leitner is Head of the Center for European Public Administration (CEPA) at Danube University Krems, Austria. At CEPA she is responsible for educational programmes and research projects on public administration with a focus and European cross border cooperation and ICT. She is the programme director of the European eGovernment Awards 2007.

Gerti Orthofer

Linz University (AT)Linz University (AT)

Gertraud Orthofer, a research assistant at the Institute of Informatics in Business and Government (University Linz). Her research interests are in the field of eGovernment, Knowledge Management, Business Processes, Portal Development, and Semantic Modelling.

David Osimo

 EC JRC /IPTS Sevilla (SE)

DAVID OSIMO, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (DG JRC of the European Commission), based in Sevilla, coordinating research activities on e-government. Interests: the role of government in the innovation system, the impact of technology on future models of government, and in particular the impact of web 2.0 on public services.

Sander Pollumae 

Estonian Public Service Academy (EE)

Sander Põllumäe is a head of public law chair of Administrative College of Public Service Academy of Estonia. His main task is to coordinate and teach  lectures of constitutional, local government and administrative law and engage in research on the same fields. Sander Põllumäe wrote his MPA theses of use of telework in public agencies of Estonia and is working on PhD theses on financing of local government.

Rimantas Petrauskas

Mykolas Romeris University (LI)

Prof. Dr. Rimantas Petrauskas is a Head of Dept. of Informatics and Statistics at the Mykolas Romeris University (Vilnius, Lithuania), rpetraus@mruni.eu. Member of scientific committees of international conferences and editorial boards of journals. He is author of more than 160 scientific articles and few books.

Haiyan Qian

UNDEPA/UNDESA (UN) -tbc

Reinhard Riedl

Bern University of Applied Sciences (CH)

Tomas Sabol

Technical University Kosice (SK)

Tomas Sabol,  Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Technical University of Košice., Slovakia.  Areas of professional interests: e-Government,  on-line investing, electronic commerce, knowledge management, artificial intelligence

Jeffrey Roy

Dalhousie University (CA)

Prof. Jeffrey Roy, School of Public Administration at Dalhousie University (multi-stakeholder governance and electronic government reforms). He is  an associate editor of the International Journal of E-Government Research, a columnist in CIO Government Review, and author of a 2006 book, E-Government in Canada: Transformation for the Digital Age.

Baudouin de Sonis       

The Executive Director of e-Forum (BE)

Dagmar Vránová

EPMA (CZ)

Ing. Dagmar Vranova, Strategic Development Director of EPMA. Her interests are related to Digital Business Ecosystems, eBusiness for SMEs and regional development, Public Sector Information and its re-use.

Jaroslav Šolc

Prague Municipality (CZ), Telecities Network

Jaroslav Šolc has a specific expertise for ICT development in the City of Prague administration (eStrategy), dealing with experience sharing in eGovernment and networking with other local governments on national and European level (like EUROCITIES,TeleCities), based now in the Union of Towns and Municipalities of the Czech Republic

Maria Wimmer

Koblenz University (DE)

Professor for eGovernment at the University of Koblenz (DE), Institute for IS Research. Studied Computer Science in Linz (AT). After a research stay on designing safety critical systems in Italy, she turned her focus onto ICT in the public sector (research and teaching at Uni Linz (AT); 2004-2005 with the Austrian Federal Chancellery; University of Koblenz (DE) since November 2005). Engaged in eight EC research and implementation projects in the areas of eGovernment and eParticipaiton; Co-organizer of scientific conferences such as the annual EGOV conferences; Chair of IFIP WG 8.5 and the German GI working group on eGovernment; member of ACM, IEEE, OCG.

Irina Zálišová

EPMA (CZ)

PhDr. Irina Zalisova, Director of EPMA – non profit Czech agency for support of regional EU cooperation, co-founded by BMI Association and Vysocina Region. Involved into the project based EU cooperation, dealing with different aspects of information society. Chairperson of eris@ eGovernment Work Group (IANIS+)