in short

• Born 1954, school and studies in Vienna.
• 1973 - 83
• Studies at the University of Vienna: sociology, philosophy & political science. Master degree in sociology (1983).
• 1982 to 2015
• professional experience in hotel management & tourism - assistant manager and later Director of his origin familys hotel in Vienna; now retired.
• 1998 to present
• Director GIVE research lab, Vienna

in detail: professional experience

• 1984 - 1985
• Initiatives for videotex systems in tourism (Hotel Network ),
• 1987
• Market studies on hotel software for Apple Computer Austria.
• 1988
• First field trip to the USA. Starting to also become software developer supporter (HyperCard Hotline).
• 1989-1991
• Three field trips to the USA, research, lectures and seminars on hypermedia and digital media.
• Foundation of the experimental projects "Libraries of the Mind" – experimental realisation of digital media and "Wissensarchiv" ("Archive of Knowledge") - research of possible applications in the field of alternative medicine. Publications in both fields.
• 1992
• "Global Village Tour" to the USA, Hawaii, Australia and Singapore, celebrating the arrival of the Apple Power Book
• Start of the "GIVE" project.GIVE means "Globally Integrated Village Environment" and is an example of a new way of organizing science: to define the desired innovation and then try to include all relevant information through a network ("bootstrap concept"). GIVE became part of the Center for Social Innovation in Vienna
• Presentations and publications on the topic "Telematics and New Living Spaces".
• Presentation of GIVE at artistic, architectural, technical and political events, many articles in newspapers and periodicals.
• 1993
• Scientific coordinator of the "Global Village 93 Conference" at Viennas Technical University on "Architecture and City Planning in the Age of Telecommunication".
• 1994
• Editor of the book "Life and Work in the Global Village”
• 1995
• Televillage development project study in Austria with IBM
• Convener of Viennas second "Global Village 95" conference in Viennas City Hall.
• Speeches at conferences, e.g. Televillage Budapest
• 1996
• Represented city of Vienna at UN Habitat Dialogue about global communication in Istanbul.
• Co-Chaired the European Telework 96 Conference (Track on Sustainable Development).
• Project manager of the Austrian section of MUNICIPIA (MUltilingual Network for the Interaction of CIty Planners and Involved local Actors), a 5FWP European telematics project coordinated by Censis Rome.
• 1997
• Organised Third Global Village Symposium where the Global Villages Network was formed.
• 1998
• Initiated an event which became part of Austrias EU Presidency program: CULTH, "Cultural Heritage in the Global Village” – a one week symposium in the Liechtenstein Palace on the collaboration of museums, libraries and archives.
• Left the Center of Social Innovation and incorporated GIVE as independent Organisation.
• Start of Monastery Project "Learning Island Mljet” in Croatia.
• 1999
• Other telematic-related events (Internet Fiesta Austria).
• Second Book "Networks”.
• 2000
• Joined forces with the Lower Austrian Village renewal and worked on educational alliances around local cultural portal points and second generation electronic cafés.
• Anti – Digital Divide project with Actwid Kongazdem Cameroon.
• 2001
• Special focus on knowledge networking (Economic significance of Open Source networks) and Electronic Cafe Design.
• 2002
• Second international Symposium CULTH, Preparation of an integrated curriculum on community informatics and regional information coaching
• Open Monastery Conference in Vatican
• 2003
• Start of ERDE project "European Rural Development by means of Education"
• 2004
• organized [www.oekonux.org Third Oekonux Conference] in Vienna
• 2005
• worked with FrithjofBergmann on NewWork
• inspired first remote "Days of Utopia"
• 2006
• first university lecture via Videobridge from Kirchbach
• 2007
• project in Wildalpen, Austria
• 2008
• board member of Global Telecenter Alliance
• 2009
• Virtual Facilitation in Social Networks (Power Down, Sonnenwelt)
• 2010
• Workshops on Broadband Applications in Rural Areas (St.Martin)
• 2011
• organized first "Village Innovation Talks"
• 2012
• started "Monasteries Of The Future" Initiative
• 2013
• Social Innovation Projects