Justus Bross, M.Sc. & MBE, 1979, is a doctoral candidate at the Hasso-Plattner Institute in Potsdam and the project leader of the discussion platform www.it-gipfelblog.de. He graduated in International Business studies at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands, earned the master's degree of Business and Engineering at the German Steinbeis-Association and the D.E.L.E degree at the University of Salamanca in Spain. He has several publications in the research area of collaborative- and social web.