Position: Professor, Head of Department of Information Systems
Organization: Poznań University of Economics

Witold Abramowicz (http://www.kie.ae.poznan.pl/members/wabramowicz/) is a full professor and chair of Department of Information Systems at The Poznan University of Economics, Poland. His particular areas of interest are Information Retrieval and Filtering, Knowledge Management in MIS. He received his M.Sc. from The Technical University of Poznan, Poland, Ph.D. from The Wroclaw Technical University, Poland, and habilitation from The Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. He worked for three universities in Switzerland and Germany for twelve years. He is an editor, author or co-author of thirty two books (published mostly by Springer and Kluwer Academic Publishers) and over 240 book chapters, articles in various journals and conference proceedings. He chaired 21 scientific international conferences and was a member of the program committees of over 300 other conferences. He is a member of the editorial boards in some international journals like Wirtschaftsinformatik (A list), Comparative Technology Transfer, International Journal of Web Services Practices, International Journal of Web-based Learning and Teaching Technology, Business & Information Systems Engineering. Currently Professor Abramowicz has been involved in many research projects in the 6th and the 7thFramework Program EU. He is vice president of the Polish Association of Management Information Systems and member of the Governmental Informatics' Council.

Moderator on sessions:

• Session 1. Business Units e-Participation