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Giovanni Maccani

RESEARCH DIRECTOR

Giovanni is currently a Senior Researcher at Ideas for Change. Giovanni has been Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Management Information Systems at the School of Business, National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUIM). He is also an Academic Member of LERO, the Irish Software Research Centre; TAG, the Technology Adoption Group; and of the Business Informatics Group at Dublin City University. Giovanni has achieved a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Engineering, both at the Polytechnic University of Milan. He earned a PhD in Information Systems at NUIM under the “Enterprise Partnership Scheme” of the Irish Research Council (IRC) in 2016. This programme was funded by IRC and Intel Corp. (enterprise partner). His research domains cover the emerging concept of Smart Cities, Urban IT Governance, Design Science, Autonomous Vehicles, and Open Government Data. Since then, Giovanni has worked on digital transformation strategies and IT Governance across several city councils in Ireland and internationally. So far, he has published more than twenty peer reviewed academic papers.