Biographical note

Prof. Jyoti Choudrie is a professor of Information Systems in Hertfordshire Business School, Management, Leadership, and Organization (MLO) department where she previously led the Systems Management Research Unit (SyMRU) and currently is a convenor for the Global Work, Economy and Digital Inclusion group. She is also an editor-in-chief for Information, Technology & People Journal (An Association of Business School 3 grade journal). In terms of research, Professor Choudrie is known as the Broadband and Digital Inclusion expert at University of Hertfordshire, which was also the case at Brunel University. To ensure her research is widely disseminated, Professor Choudrie co-edited a Routledge research monograph with Prof. C. Middleton: The Management of Broadband Technology Innovation and completed a research monograph published by Routledge Publishing and focused on social inclusion along with Dr. Sherah Kurnia and Dr. Panayiota Tsatsou titled: Social Inclusion and Usability of ICT-Enabled Services. 
Eva Tuba received B. S. and M. S. degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from Graduate School of Computer Science, John Naisbitt University, and Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Faculty of Informatics and Computing, Singidunum University. She was teaching several mathematics and computer science courses at the Graduate School of Computer Science, John Naisbitt University. Previously, she taught at Singidunum University, Faculty of Informatics and Computing and Faculty of Technical Sciences. Currently, she is an assistant professor at Trinity University, Texas, USA. Her research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning, swarm intelligence algorithms, image processing, and wireless sensor networks. Eva Tuba is the author or coauthor of more than 90 scientific papers published in journals, international conferences, and chapters in Springer and Elsevier books. She is a reviewer for SCI journals and international conferences. 
Dr. Thinagaran Perumal received his B.Eng. in Computer and Communication System Engineering from Universiti Putra Malaysia in 2003. He completed his M.S.C. and Ph.D. Smart Technologies and Robotics from the same university in 2006 and 2011, respectively. Currently, he is appointed as a senior lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia. He is also currently appointed as the head of Cyber-Physical Systems in the university and has also been elected as the chair of IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Malaysia Chapter. Dr Thinagaran Perumal is the recipient of 2014 IEEE Early Career Award from IEEE Consumer Electronics Society for his pioneering contribution in the field of consumer electronics. His research interests are toward interoperability aspects of smart homes and Internet of Things (IoT), wearable computing, and cyber-physical systems. 
Dr. Amit Joshi is currently the director of Global Knowledge Research Foundation, also an entrepreneur and researcher who has completed his graduation (B.Tech.) in Information Technology, and M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering and completed his research in the areas of cloud computing and cryptography in medical imaging with a focus on analysis of the current Government Strategies and World forums needs in different sectors on security purposes. He has an experience of around 10 years in academic and industry in prestigious organizations. He is an active member of ACM, IEEE, CSI, AMIE, IACSIT-Singapore, IDES, ACEEE, NPA, and many other professional societies. Further currently, he is also the international chair of InterYIT at International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP, Austria). He has presented and published more than 50 papers in national and international journals/conferences of IEEE and ACM.