Paul G. Nixon
Paul Nixon is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the The Hague University of Professional Education, the Netherlands. Haagse.  Paul has been involved in e-Government research for over 12 years and was part of an EU expert panel within the COST A14 programme.  He has contributed chapters to many edited collections on the use of ICTs particularly in the fields of political parties, electronic democracy and social welfare.  He is presently co-editing, (together with V. Koutrakou) a book on 'e-Government in Europe' which will be published by Routledge in late 2006 He has co-edited two previous collections for Routledge Political Parties and the Internet (with Steve Ward and Rachel Gibson 2003.) and Cyberprotest  (with Wim van der Donk, Brian Loader and Dieter Rucht, 2004)  He has also published in the fields of culture and literature including editing a collection entitled Representations of Education in Literature (Edwin Mellen Press 2000)

Paul Nixon

Rajash Rawal
Rajash Rawal is a lecturer in European Politics at HEBO, Haagse Hogeschool, The Netherlands. He is a research fellow within the European Public Management Research Group. He specializes in the impact of media on political agents in the modern era, focussing on the growing role of the media within the European Political landscape. He has published a number of articles around the broad themes of e-democracy and e-government.

Rajash Rawal

Brian Loader
Brian D. Loader is Co-Director of the Social Informatics Research Unit (SIRU) based at the University of York, UK.  His academic interests are focussed around the emergence of new information and communications technologies (ICTs), such as the Internet, and the social, political and economic factors shaping their development and diffusion, and their implications for social, economic, governmental and cultural change. He is General Editor of the international journal Information, Communication and Society (Taylor & Francis, Routledge).  His books include The Governance of Cyberspace: Politics, Technology and Global Restructuring, (London: Routledge 1997), The Cyberspace Divide: Equality, Agency and Policy in the Information Society (London: Routledge 1998); Digital Democracy: Discourse and Decision-Making in the Information Age (with Barry Hague) (London: Routledge 1999); Cybercrime: Law Enforcement, Security & Surveillance in the Information Age (with Doug Thomas) (London: Routledge 2000); Key Concepts in Cyberculture (with William Dutton, Nicole Ellison and Nicholas Pleace) (London: Routledge 2000); Community Informatics: Shaping Computer-Mediated Social Networks (with Leigh Keeble) (London: Routledge 2001); Digital Academe: The New Media and Institutions of Higher Education and Learning, (edited with Dutton, W) (London:Routledge, 2002); Key Concepts in Cyberculture, (with Bell, D., Pleace, N. and Schuler, D.) London:Routledge (2004); Cyberprotest:New Media, Citizens and Social Movements (edited with W.v.d. Donk, Nixon, P.and Rucht,D.), London:Routledge, (2004). His most recent books are Young Citizens in the Digital Age (London:Routledge, 2007) and Beyond e-Government (London:Routledge, forthcoming). He has also published several articles, chapters and reports upon technological change and social & political restructuring. He has undertaken presentations throughout the world and acted as an adviser to governments and research agencies.  He was also a member of the EU COST A14 working group on ICTs, social movements & citizens and a member of the Canadian Research Alliance for Community Networking (CRACN).

Brian Loader

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

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

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