Guest Editorial

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Biographical notes: Efthimios Tambouris is an Associate Professor of Information Systems and eGovernment at the Applied Informatics Department of the University of Macedonia, Greece. Before that, he served at research centres CERTH/ITI and NCSR 'Demokritos' as well as the IT industry. He holds a Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and an MSc and PhD from Brunei University, UK. During the last 20 years he has initiated, coordinated and participated in several international research projects and service contracts funded by the European Union and the Greek public sector. He has served as an expert in standardisation activities at CEN and is a reviewer for the European Commission. He has more than 150 research publications. Panos Panagiotopoulos is a Lecturer in Information Management (Assistant Professor) at Queen Mary University of London and the convenor of the Public Management research group. He holds a PhD in Information Systems and Computing from Brunei University London. His research examines the impact of information technology on political and administrative processes, with focus on e-participation, social media, digital research methods and new forms of data in policy. He is a member of the IFIP 8.5 working group (Information Systems in Public Administration) and a member of the editorial board for Government Information Quarterly and New Technology, Work and Employment. Øystein Sæbø is a Professor of Information Systems and Head of Centre for e-government research at the University of Agder, Norway. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Aalborg University, Norway. His main research interests are e-government, e-participation and ICT for Development. His work is published in journals such as Strategic Journal of Information Systems, The Information Society, Government Information Quarterly and Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, and he is currently a Senior Editor of The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC), and an Associate Editor in the Information Systems Journal (ISJ). Konstantinos A. Tarabanis is a Professor of Information Systems at the Department of Business Administration of the University of Macedonia, Greece. He is also the Director of the Information Systems Laboratory at the same university. He received an Engineering Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, an MS in both Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, and a PhD in Computer Science at Columbia University, New York, NY. He was a Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Centre and was employed by the IBM Corporation. He has received several awards. He served as Guest Editor of the 'Transforming E-Government' issue of the IEEE Intelligent Systems journal in 2009. He has about 200 research publications in the areas of software modelling and development for the domains of e-government, e-business, e-learning, e-manufacturing.