Gabriela Viale Pereira is Assistant Professor for Information Systems at the Department for E-Governance and Administration at University for Continuing Education Krems and Research Fellow at CTG UAlbany. She holds a Post-Doctoral Degree from the Center for Research on Public Administration and Government at Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), Brazil. Gabriela’s activities include research in digital government and ICT-related Governance projects involving smart governance, smart cities, citizen engagement and government 3.0. Gabriela has authored and co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications on Information Systems and digital government. In addition, she has been working with a variety of organizations such as United Nations, ITU, and Council of Europe, she is a Board Member of the Digital Government Society (2022/2023) and IFIP WG 8.5 in ICT & Public Administration (2021-2023) and has co-chaired different tracks in international conferences such as ICEGOV, dg.o, IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-ePart and HICSS during last years.