Information and Communications Technology in Support of Migration / Security Informatics and Law Enforcement (PDF)

she has worked as a researcher on several EU funded projects in the Russian Federation and Europe. She has taught various courses in Anthropology and Migration Studies at the University of Oxford, University of Oxford Brookes and the University of Salento. Karen is currently a research fellow at the Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organised Crime Research (CENTRIC), Sheffield Hallam University, UK, working on two H2020- funded EU projects, ICT Enabled Public Services for Migration (MIICT) and Perceptions.





Yara Abdel Samad holds an MSc in information technology management. She specialises in e-government and e-governance. She developed a training module that has been taught at the Academy of ICT Essentials for Government Leadership at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Wester Asia (ESCWA). She was the Policies and Strategies Director at the Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurshipin Jordan. She developed various national ICT policies and strategies and published journal articles related to e-government and a variety of ICT related articles in Jordanian newspapers. She is currently a researcher at the Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organised Crime Research (CENTRIC), Sheffield Hallam University (SHU). She is the project manager of ICT Enabled Public Services for Migration (MIICT), an H2020-funded EU project.







Professor Petra Saskia Bayerl is Professor of Digital Communication and Security at CENTRIC (Centre of Excellence for Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organised Crime Research), Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Her research interests lay at the intersection of human-computer interaction, organisational communication, and organisational change with a special focus on ICT innovations, privacy, and the management of transparency. She holds master's degrees in psychology, linguistics and organizational dynamics from universities in Germany and the USA and a Ph.D. from Technical University in Delft, Netherlands. Her publications have appeared in international journals such as Communications of the ACM, MIS Quarterly and New Media and Society. She has further co-edited books on topics such as Open Source Intelligence, Application of Big Data for National Security and Community Policing.







Dr Anastasios Karakostas received the Degree in Computer Science and the PhD degree in Computer Science at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece. He is a Senior Researcher with ITI-CERTH. Currently, he is deputy coordinator and scientific manager of the H2020 Disaster Management projects aqua3S and beAWARE and deputy coordinator of the H2020 Factories of the Future project i4Q. Additionally he is technical manager in two H2020 projects regarding ICT solutions and Migration, namely MIICT and WELCOME. He has also participated in numerous European and national research projects and is the author of more than 60 publications in refereed journals and international conference. His research interests include decision support systems, semantic multimedia analysis, ontologies and semantic information modelling and reasoning. He has served as a reviewer in international Journals such as Computers and Education, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies and as Technical program committee in well reputed conferences and workshops such as CSCL, IEEE ICALT.