Lasse Berntzen is an Associate Professor at Vestfold University College in Norway. For the five last years, his research has focused on the Information Society and ICT in public sector, with emphasis on egovernment and e-democracy.

He has been involved in several research projects on national and international level, author and co-author of several conference papers and articles, and program committee member and reviewer for some of the most important conferences within his field of research. He is currently a member of IFIP WG 8.5: Information Systems in Public Administration.

His current research interests include automatic assessment of e-government services, different aspects of e-participation, and the use of geographic information systems to improve public decision making and democratic participation. For the last two years, he has also been working on regulatory aspects of e-democracy as an expert for the Council of Europe’s Ad-hoc Committee on e-democracy.

Lasse Berntzen received his Cand. Scient. degree in Computer Science from the University of Oslo.

His thesis work focused on object oriented modeling of workflow processes. Since then, he has worked both as an academic and as a computer professional. During his professional career, he has written textbooks on computer networks, systems development, and web technology.

He has been an active supporter of IARIA, first as technical program committee member, and for the last two years as ICDS technical program committee co-chair. Lasse Berntzen is an external member of the Centre for Business Information, Organization and Process Management (BIOPoM) at University of Westminster, London, UK. He is also a member of AIS, ACM and IEEE.