About the editor

Cornelis Reiman, PhD (Economics), is an international Board advisor and academic with extensive experience in the technological domain. He enjoys a number of exceptional professional qualifications in accounting, corporate governance, marketing and management, including FCPA (Australia and Singapore), FCIS and Chartered Accountant. He is also a Senior Member and Certified Professional with the Australian Computer Society. In addition to considerable business skills, he gained a sound IT background when working with IBM in technical, marketing, management and executive positions. Thereafter, he proceeded to apply his particular abilities by serving private clients as a management consultant.

Previously, he was President of an international economic development entity spanning the former Soviet Union, and before that he was based in Singapore. There he worked as a global Chief Technology Officer of a B2C and B2B entity, playing a pivotal role in establishing a premium e-university that pioneered social media in online classes that connected students internationally.

Earlier, Cornelis was Dean and Vice President of a university in Thailand. He also taught international business, management and economics to postgraduate students at Monash University in Australia, where he pioneered online learning in the Department of Management. Cornelis additionally consulted in the private and public sectors on issues such as computing, corporate management, strategic planning and business incubation. The global information technology provider IBM, and the former accounting services firm of Arthur Andersen & Co., employed him earlier.

More recently, he has advised boards and senior executives in relation to the use of technological platforms that improve efficiencies in production and, especially, business reporting, which is necessary for vital decision making.

Overall, his unique blend of skills and experience is evident in the manner by which the following collection of papers is forged in providing xxiv Public Interest and Private Rights in Social Media inquisitive readers, practitioners and scholars with a useful point of reference to address particular issues. It also presents a sound basis by which readers can explore even further what social media offers.

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