Anastasija Nikiforova is a researcher (PhD in Computer Science), whose research interests include, but are not limited to, data management with a particular focus on data quality, open government data, Smart City, Society 5.0, sustainable development, IoT, HCI and digitization. She is an assistant professor of Information Systems at University of Tartu (Institute of Computer Science), and a part of European Open Science Cloud Task Force “FAIR Metrics and Data Quality”. She is an expert of the European Cooperation in Science & Technology, as well as Latvian Council of Sciences (Natural Sciences – Computer Science and Informatics, Engineering and Technology, and Social Sciences – Economics and Business), and an associate member of the Latvian Open Technology Association. She serves as PC for 10+ international conferences and invited reviewer for 10+ high-quality (Q1-Q2) journals, is an Editorial Board Member for several journals, a general chair for the international Electronic Governance with Emerging Technologies Conference.