Prof. Wolfgang Prinz, PhD (FIT) has a PhD in computer science from the University of Nottingham. He is deputy head of Fraunhofer FIT in Bonn, division manager of the Collaboration systems research department in FIT, and Professor for cooperation systems at RWTH Aachen University. He is carrying out research in the area of Cooperative Work Environments, Social Computing and Web 2.0. He participated in and managed several national research and international research projects and he is currently coordinator of an EC funded project on collaborative work environments (Ecospace).