Dr. Papazafeiropoulou is a Senior Lecturer in the Information Systems and Computing department at Brunel University. She has been involved in a number of European and UK funded research projects with emphasis on electronic commerce, small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) and open innovation such as open source software development and operation. She has been country coordinator for a TEMPUS project with the cooperation of Greece, Finland and Ukraine during 2000-2001. She has 10 years of research experience on the study of diffusion and adoption of electronic commerce, e-government, broadband Internet, Enterprise Recourse Planning Systems (ERPs), open source applications, IP-telephony, and mobile TV.