Dr.
Johann Höchtl graduated from University of Vienna and Vienna University of Technology in Business Informatics. He is research fellow at Danube University Krems, Center for E-Governance, Austria. His projects include EU-funded research projects and national grants in the domain of social media application in administration, open data and ICT in public administration. He is former member of OASIS SET TC standardisation group.
His current research focus is in the domain of Open Data, the effects of ICT application in a connected society and semantic technologies.
He is reviewer of JTAER (Journal for Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research) and Program Committee member of the International Conference on e-Commerce (EC) as well as the International Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government (CeDEM).
Johann Höchtl is member of OKFN Austria and member of Cooperation Open Government Data Austria, where he is heading data quality sub working group.
Apart from his professional work he was advisor to the E-Georgia strategy for the public administration and currently advisor to Macedonia (FYROM) to raise interoperability capabilities among federal ministries.
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A mostly complete list of projects & publicatiiôns is available here.