Joseph Feller

Biography

UCC, Cork , PHD, N/A (1998) American University, Washington DC, USA , BA, N/A (1993) Senior Lecturer (BIS), UCC (01-JAN-05 / 01-MAY-10) College Lecturer (BIS), UCC (01-SEP-99 / 01-DEC-04) Adjunct Professor, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL, USA (01-SEP-96 / 01-AUG-99)

Research Interest

Dr. Feller's research is focused on various forms of technology enabled open phenomena such as open innovation, open source software, open source hardware/design, open content, crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, etc. At present (2012-), he is Principal Investigator of the (TOTO) research project hosted funded by a grant from The Lewis Charitable Foundation (California, USA). The objective of the TOTO project is to conduct original research and to provide scholarly resources and thought-leadership to the global multi-disciplinary research community investigating technology-enabled organizational transparency and openness. His prior research projects include: Open Code, Content and Commerce (O3C) Business Models (2007-2010), a research project investigating open production, innovation and value creation strategies funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. CALIBRE (2004-2006), an EU FP6 Co-ordination Action project designed to establish a European industry open source software research policy forum; foster the effective transfer open source best practice to European industry; and integrate and coordinate European open source software research and practice. The project was funded by the European Commission Information Society Technologies (IST) priority. pKADS (2003-2004), a software development project designed to provide the UNFPA with a shareable desktop knowledge management tool. pKADS was officially launched by BIS, UNFPA and the DCMNR on December 10, 2003 at the World Summit of the Information Society in Geneva, Switzerland. The UCC team and the DCMNR went on to develop eGOV-KP, an open source Java enterprise application. PRISM (2001-2003), an EU FP5 funded programme of economic research, bringing together leading experts from the business, academic and policy communities to focus on the measurement, management and reporting of intangibles. The project was funded by the European Commission Information Society Technologies (IST) priority.