Dr. Alexandros Xenakis belongs to the new academic interdisciplinary field that results from the applications of information and communication technologies in economics and society.He is an Economist, Political Scientist and his Doctoral thesis ‘Electronic voting in the United Kingdom’ was supervised by Professor Ann Macintosh (Professor of digital governance) at Edinburgh Napier University. He teaches in the Department of Economics in the University of Crete as an adjunct lecturer. He has taken part in European research projects in the area of e-participation, has been a reviewer for FP7 in the SSH programme and an expert Consultant for the Hellenic Ministry of Electronic Governance.