362 About the Contributors Christina M. Akrivopoulou holds a PhD in Constitutional Law and currently serves as Committee President in the Greek Refugee Authority in Athens. Her main research interests concern human and constitutional rights, the protection of the right to privacy, data protection, the private-public distinc- tion, and citizenship. She currently lectures in Hellenic Open University, and she has previously taught in Democritus University of Thrace, in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and in the EMA-Unesco inter-university master class. She is a postdoctoral researcher of the Greek State Scholarships Founda- tion and of the Aristotle University Research Committee (Program of Academic Excellence). She is a member of the Thessaloniki Law Bar Association. She is collaborating with several Greek law reviews, and she is a member of many non-governmental human rights organizations in Greece and abroad. She is editor in chief of the International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies. She has edited for IGI the volumes, Personal Data Privacy and Protection in a Surveillance Era: Technologies and Practices (2010), Human Rights and Risks in the Digital Era: Globalization and the Effects of In- formation Technologies (2012), and Digital Democracy and the Impact of Technology on Governance and Politics: New Globalized Practices. Nikolaos Garipidis is Attorney at Law in Thessaloniki Bar Association in Greece. He holds a PhD in Philosophy of Law and an LLM in History, Philosophy, and Methodology of Law from the Aristo- tle University of the Thessaloniki as well as an LLM in Legal Theory from EALT Brussels. His main research interests concern democratic theory, the counter majoritarian difficulty, constitutional power, redistributive justice, and the right to disobedience. * * * Stavros Amanatidis is a Senior Information Scientist at Novo Nordisk. He holds a Bachelor in Business Administration from University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece. After he graduated, he continued his studies in IT University of Copenhagen in Denmark. He holds a Master in Software Development, and he lives in Denmark. He has worked in several companies as software developer. He started his career in a start up Danish company, continued in the headquarters of Saxo Bank, and in the last year became a part of Novo Nordisk. He works as Senior Information Scientist in the Global Infor- mation and Analysis (GLIA) department. Being interested in deepening his knowledge in Information and Technology Science, he has attended several courses in various IT areas. About the Contributors Haralambos Anthopoulos is currently an associate professor of Law and Public Administration in the Hellenic Open University, and he lives in Athens, Greece. He has published several books in Greek concerning the protection of fundamental rights, the freedom of conscience, the freedom of information, political anonymity, racism and social seclusion, as well as articles in relation to democracy, freedom of assembly, and the role of political parties in modern democracies. He is editor of the Greek law review, Newspaper of Public Law. Sunil Aryal received a BIT degree from Purbanchal University, Nepal, in 2005 and MIT degree from University of Southern Queensland, Australia, in 2008. He worked as a Software Developer for a couple of years. He received an MIT (Research) degree from Monash University, Australia in 2012, where he is currently doing his PhD. His research interests include data mining, machine learning, and information system. Marco Bani holds a MA degree in Humanities Computing (University of Pisa, Italy, 2008). He has formerly been a Research Fellow at King’s College of London, CCH (Centre for Computing in the Humanities). He is currently a PhD candidate in “Politics, Human Rights, and Sustainability” at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa, Italy). Kiltidou Despoina is a PhD candidate in Comparative Law in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Law. The subject of her doctoral thesis is “International and Transnational Dimensions of Col- lective Bargaining within the Framework of Maritime Labour.” She holds a Master of Advanced Studies (LLM) in International Law, Faculty of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her main research interests concern Private International Law (Private International Maritime Law), Comparative Law, and International Trade Law. She received a Bachelor of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and she works as attorney at law at Thessaloniki. Her occupational fields as a lawyer are Private International Law, Labour law, Employment Relations, and Commercial Law. In September 2012-December 2012, she cooperated as a foreign researcher with the Maritime and Ocean Law Center of University of Nantes (France), and she attended specialized courses in French Labour Law and European/French Maritime Social Security Law in University of Nantes. Furthermore, she is a Scientific Assistant to Associate Professor of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Christina Deliyanni-Dimitrakou in Comparative Law’s courses and in the Greek-French Master Program in European and Comparative Social Law (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki-University Toulouse 1). She speaks Greek (native), English, French, Italian, Russian, and Chinese. Costas Eleftheriou is a PhD candidate at the University of Athens. His main interests include Greek party politics, European radical left parties, and philosophy of political science. In his PhD thesis, he examines the Greek Communist Party’s organisational and ideological development during the last two decades. He currently works as a political analyst at the National Confederation of Hellenic Commerce. He is also a Member of the Governing Board of the Hellenic Political Science Association. Shalin Hai-Jew works as an instructional designer at Kansas State University. She has taught online in Washington State through multiple institutions of higher education and WashingtonOnline for many years. She has B.A.s in English and psychology, and an M.A. in English, from the University of Wash- 363 About the Contributors ington, where she was a Hugh Paradise Scholar. She earned an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership with a focus on Public Administration from Seattle University (2005), a private university, where she was a Morford Scholar. She taught at Jiangxi Normal University from 1988 – 1990 (in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, in the P.R.C.) and at the Northeast Agriculture University from 1992 - 1994 (in Harbin, Hei- longjiang Province, in the P.R.C.), the latter two years with the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). In her work in academia, she has on a wide range of projects. She has published her research broadly. She reviews for a number of publications and publish- ers. She has been taking graduate courses for many years now as continuing professional development. Rawan T. Khasawneh was born in Irbid, Jordan in 1989. She is a full-time lecturer at Jordan University of Science and Technology. She obtained her Master’s degree in Management Information Systems from Yarmouk University, Jordan (2013), and her bachelor degree in Management Information Systems from Yarmouk University, Jordan (2011). Rawan is a member of the international editorial re- view board of the International Journal of Technology Diffusion (IJTD). Rawan has research interest in e-government topics like digital divide, security issues and adoption of e-government. In addition, she works on research projects in social media and sentiment analysis, e-marketing and E-CRM, knowledge management systems, and group decision support systems. Eylem Kılıç is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Education and Instructional Technology, Faculty of Education at Yüzüncü Yıl University in Turkey. She holds a BS degree from the Department of Computer Education and Instructional Technology of Ankara University and a PhD from the same department of Middle East Technical University. She worked as an adjunct faculty at Open University of The Netherlands in The Netherlands and Arizona State University in USA. Her research interests are multimedia design, cognitive load theory, human memory, human-computer interaction, and multicultural learning and technology. Marta Maroni is a PhD candidate at the faculty of law at the University of Helsinki. She holds a Master´s degree in International Relations (University of Perugia, Italy). She previously worked as leg- islative assistant at the Italian Senate of the Republic (2008-2012), where she daily collaborated with the Standing Committee of European Union Policies and the Special Commission for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights. Her current research focuses on the emerging right to Internet access. Her main areas of interest are constitutional theory, democracy, and international human rights law. Arjun Neupane has completed a PhD from the University of Southern Queensland (USQ), Australia. He received his Master of Information Technology from the USQ, Australia, and Bachelor of Computer Application form Pokhara University, Nepal. His research interests are e-procurement, anti-corruption, and ICT for development. He has published papers in prestigious journals and books and has extensive teaching and research experience in e-procurement and economic development. Olga Eirini Palla is a lawyer. She holds a Bachelor in Law and a Master in International Law with specialization in International Economic Law. After having worked as a trainee lawyer,