NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS
Karamanolis George
Karamanolis George
RESEARCH SPECIALIST
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
George holds a B.Sc. in Informatics and a M.Sc. in Information Systems from the Athens University of Economics and Business. He is currently the co-founder and CTO/CIO of Crowdpolicy. During 2009-2012, George has coordinated the implementation of Major Transparency (Clarity,diavgeia.gov.gr/en), e­government and other projects for the Greek Government. He was member of the Scientific Committee for the Crowdsourcing Platform “labs.opengov” and the Organizational Committee for the Digital Greece 2020 EU Agenda and scientific advisor of GFOSS (Greek Free / Open Source Software Society). He was member of the board at the Internet Investors Association, an NGO promoting corporate governance and transparency activities for Greek listed companies. Also, he was Scientific Advisor of the “Information Society and the Knowledge ­based Economy” group at the National and Technical University of Athens.
RESEARCH
INTERESTS
His main interests include Open Data and Open Government, Project Management, ICT and CrowdX initiatives in a global context.