Sarantis, Demetrios
Postdoctoral Fellow
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- INSTITUTE:
- UNU-EGOV
- OFFICE:
- Rua de Vila Flor 166, 4810-445 Guimarães, Portugal
- E-MAIL:
- sarantis@unu.edu
- PHONE:
- n/a
Research Interests
- Data modelling-ontologies
- e-Government
- Public administration
- Smart Cities
Education
- PhD, e-Government, National Technical University of Athens, Greece (2011)
- MSc, Operational Research and Information Systems, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom (1997)
- BEng, Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Athens, Greece (1996)
Appointments
- Postdoctoral Fellow, UNU-EGOV
Biographical Statement
Demetrios Sarantis is Postdoctoral Fellow at UNU-EGOV. Demetrios graduated in Electrical and Computer Engineering by the National Technical University of Athens, holds a MSc in Operational Research and Information Systems from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a PhD in e-Government from the National Technical University of Athens. He has been employed in software industry and in the Hellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission (EETT), deploying and managing information systems and services and supporting database information infrastructures. He has also worked as researcher in e-Government Unit in Decision Systems Laboratory of School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), participating in national and international research projects, in the areas of Government Transformation, Interoperability Frameworks, eParticipation, eGovernment, Process Modelling and Re-engineering in Public Sector. He has worked as researcher in Yale University (USA) in the area of Ontology Data Modelling in Biomedicine. His current research interests are Data Modelling-Ontologies, e-Governance. Public Administration, Information Systems Interoperability and Smart Cities.
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Book Chapters
- Susar, Deniz, Soares, Delfina, Alarabiat, Ayman, Lameiras, Mariana and Sarantis, Demetrios, “Regional Challenges and Opportunities” in United Nations E-Government Survey 2020 (New York: United Nations, 2020), 63-85.
- Soares, Delfina, Sarantis, Demetrios and Lameiras, Mariana, “Improve cities resilience and sustainability through e-government assessment” in United Nations E-Government Survey 2018: Gearing E-Government to Support Transformation towards Sustainable and Resilient Societies, ed. Aquaro, Vincenzo and Schweinfest, Stefan (New York: United Nations, 2018), 151-175.
Conference Publications
- Sarantis, Demetrios, Soares, Delfina, Susar, Deniz and Aquaro, Vincenzo, Local e-Government Development: Results of an international survey 15th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV 2022), Guimarães, 2022/10/04-07.
- Sarantis, Demetrios, Analysing e-Government Research: Current Areas and Dimensions 18th International Conference on WWW/Internet, Cagliari, 2019/11/7-9.
- Sarantis, Demetrios, Alexopoulos, Charalampos, Charalabidis, Yannis, Lachana, Zoi and Loutsaris, Michalis, Blockchain in Digital Government: Research Needs Identification 17th European, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Conference on Information Systems (EMCIS 2020), Online, 2020/11/25-26.
- Sarantis, Demetrios, Soares, Delfina and Carvalho, Joana, HSWAI: a health sector website assessment instrument 13th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV 2020), Online, 2020/09/23-25.
- Sarantis, Demetrios, Ben Dhaou, Soumaya, Alexopoulos, Charalampos, Ronzhyn, Alexander, Viale Pereira, Gabriela and Charalabidis, Yannis, The Evolving e-Governance Curriculum: A Worldwide mapping of Education Programs 12th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV2019), Melbourne, 2019/04/03-05.
- Sarantis, Demetrios and Soares, Delfina, Developing Health Sector Website Assessment Instrument: Outcomes from Portuguese Hospitals 6th International Conference on eDemocracy & eGovernment (ICEDEG 2019), Quito, 2019/04/24-26.
- Sarantis, Demetrios, Ben Dhaou, Soumaya, Alexopoulos, Charalampos and Loukis, Euripidis, Challenges and Opportunities in e-Government Education: e-Government Programs Curriculum 13th International Conference on Digital Society and eGovernments (ICDS 2019), Athens, 2019/02/24-28.
- Arfeen, Irfanullah, Sarantis, Demetrios and Pereira, Ana Filomena, Assessment of Citizen Perception: A Case Study of Municipal Solid Waste Management System in Guimaraes 6th International Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ICIE 2018), Washington D.C, 2018/03/05-06.
- Sarantis, Demetrios and Soares, Delfina, Towards Health Sector Web Presence Assessment: Defining Criteria and Indicators 11th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV2018), Galway, 2018/04/04-06.
- Viale Pereira, Gabriela, Charalabidis, Yannis, Alexopoulos, Charalampos, Mureddu, Francesco, Parycek, Peter, Ronzhyn, Alexander, Sarantis, Demetrios, Flak, Leif and Wimmer, Maria A., Scientific foundations training and entrepreneurship activities in the domain of ICT-enabled governance 19th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2018), Delft, 2018/05-06/30-01.
- Sarantis, Demetrios, Assessment of eGovernment Policies: Reflections on Applied Frameworks 30th International Business Information Management Association Conference (IBIMA), Madrid, 2017/11/08-09.
- Sarantis, Demetrios and Soares, Delfina, Literature on Website Evaluation in Health Sector 10th IADIS International Conference Information Systems, Budapest, 2017/04/10-12.
- Sarantis, Demetrios, The Challenge of Accelerating Greek Judicial Procedure 6th International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective (EGOVIS 2017), Lyon, 2017/08/28-31.
- Sarantis, Demetrios, Removing Barriers in eGovernment: Back Office Assessment IADIS International Conference Applied Computing 2017, Vilamoura, 2017/10/18-20.
- Sarantis, Demetrios and Soares, Delfina, From a Literature Review to a Conceptual Framework for Health Sector Websites' Assessment IFIP EGOV-ePart 2017, Saint Petersburg, 2017/09/04-07.
- Sarantis, Demetrios, Modernization of Greek Public Sector: Results from eGovernment Law Application and Next Steps 17th European Conference on Digital Government (ECDG 2017), Lisbon, 2017/06/12-13.
Conference Proceedings
- Charalabidis, Yannis, Cunha, Maria Alexandra and Sarantis, Demetrios ed. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV 2020) 2020/09/23-25 Online. New York: ACM Press, 2020.
Reports
- Soares, Delfina, Sarantis, Demetrios and Carvalho, Joana (2022). Assessment of Portuguese Hospitals' Websites using HSWAI. United Nations University (UNU-EGOV).
- Soares, Delfina, Sarantis, Demetrios and Carvalho, Joana (2021). HSWAI: Instrument Design and Validation Process. United Nations University (UNU-EGOV).
- Soares, Delfina, Sarantis, Demetrios and Carvalho, Joana (2021). Assessment of the Portuguese Hospitals Websites using HSWAI. United Nations University (UNU-EGOV).
- Soares, Delfina, Sarantis, Demetrios and Carvalho, Joana (2019). Health Sector Website Assessment Instrument: notes on the assessment method. United Nations University (UNU-EGOV).
- Sarantis, Demetrios, Ben Dhaou, Soumaya, Kappatou, Christina, Kousantas, Nikolaos, Switters, Jon Matthew, Mureddu, Francesco, Danielsen, Frank, Lachana, Zoi, Alexopoulos, Charalampos, Psintridis, Charambos, Chatzikostas, Savvas, Tsiaousi, Giannis, Viale Pereira, Gabriela and Virkar, Shefali (2018). Report for Electronic Governance research and practice worldwide. European Commission.
- Ronzhyn, Alexander, Wimmer, Maria A., Kappatou, Christina, Kousantas, Nikolaos, Sarantis, Demetrios, Ben Dhaou, Soumaya, Switters, Jon M., Mureddu, Francesco, Danielsen, Frank, Lachana, Zoi, Alexopoulos, Charalampos, Psintridis, Charambos, Chatzikostas, Savvas, Tsiaousis, Giannis, Viale Pereira, Gabriela and Virkar, Shefali (2018). Report for Electronic Governance research and practice worldwide. European Commission.
- Sarantis, Demetrios and Ben Dhaou, Soumaya (2018). Worldwide training needs on Electronic Governance. UNU-EGOV.