Gabriela Viale Pereira is Assistant Professor for Information Systems at the Department for E-Governance and Administration at Danube University Krems and a Research Fellow at CTG UAlbany. She holds a Post-Doctoral Degree from the Center for Research on Public Administration and Government at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), Brazil (2019) and a Doctoral Degree in Administration from the School of Business at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (2016). She is Project Coordinator of the Erasmus+ Strengthening Governance Capacity for Smart Sustainable Cities (CAP4CITY) project. Her research is focused on digital government and ICT-related governance, especially in the context of smart cities. Gabriela has authored and co-authored more than 40 peer-reviewed publications on information systems and digital governance. In addition, she has been working with a variety of organizations such as the United Nations, ITU, and Council of Europe, being also a Board Member of the Digital Government Society and of IFIP WG 8.5 in ICT and Public Administration.