Karin Hedström is Professor of Informatics at Örebro University. Karin received her PhD in Information Systems from Linköping University. Her research interests covers areas such as information security and e-government. Her research on values relating to information security, and e-government, has been reported in a variety of international conferences and journals. She is also Chair for the international reserach group IFIP 11.1 (Information security & management) and acting as Dean for the faculty of business, science and engineering.