Universidade de São Paulo

Faculty Member, Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades

Assistant Professor

About

João Porto de Albuquerque is Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities of the University of São Paulo (Brazil) and Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

João Porto de Albuquerque received his B.Sc. (2002) and Ph.D. in Computer Science (2006) from the Institute of Computing at the State University of Campinas, Brazil. During the doctoral studies his research work was directed to the configuration management and the modelling of security policies for network security systems in complex organisations. Part of the research work was performed in a two-year research stay (2004-2006) in the Working Group Computer Networks and Distributed Systems at University of Dortmund (now Technical University Dortmund), funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). He is Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and spent a post-doctoral research stay (2006-2008) at Department Informatics of the University of Hamburg.

His current research focus lies on the sociotechnical aspects of Information Systems and Information Technology Services. Building upon theories from Science and Technology Studies (STS) and social studies of Information Systems, he is interested in investigating the co-production of technology, organizational forms, society, and human behaviour.

Current research areas:

1.    Information Systems in Organisations:  IT Service Management, Organisational Change and Business Process Management (BPM), Knowledge Management and Organisational Learning, Social software and Web 2.0, Strategic Alignment of IS and Organisations (IT Governance), Information Security

2.  Public Policy and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT): ICT in the public sector (e-Government), Software-related Policies, Open Source Software, Education on ICT/IS

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Homepage: http://www.each.usp.br/jporto/en

Address: João Porto de Albuquerque
Assistant Professor of Information Systems
School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities
University of São Paulo (EACH/USP)
Rua Arlindo Béttio, 1000 - Ermelino Matarazzo
03828-000 São Paulo/SP Brazil

Telephones: ++55 11 3091-1028
 ++55 11 3091-8915