John D'Ambra is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Systems, Technology and Management at the University of New South Wales. Until recently he was Academic Director of the Master of Business and Technology program in the Australian School of Business, UNSW. Prior to becoming an academic, John worked for over ten years as a programmer, programmer-analyst and project leader in several large organizations including Pacific Power and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. John has a number of research and teaching interests including computer-mediated communication, ICT in the tourism industry, evaluation of the World Wide Web, and the semantic Web.

Research Grants:

• 2004: Adoption of e-commerce in small to medium sized tourism enterprises. With Andrew Davidson, Nina Mistilis (UNSW); Steve Burgess (VUT) CRC for Sustainable Toursim, 1 year $40000
• 2003: Visitor Information Centres:Best Practice in Information Dissemination. With:Nina Mistilis (UNSW); M. Deery, L. Jago, (VU); D. Carson (SCU). CRC for Sustainable Toursim 1 year $45000
• 2002: Measuring the effectiveness of the WWW in reducing uncertainty for non-work based information tasks. URSP 1 year $13000
• 2001: The Use of New Electronic Communication Media More Effectively: An Empirical Investigation URSP 2001 1 year $13876
• 2000: Coronet Project DISR, 3 years $48000
• 2000: User Evaluation of the WWW SRG, 1 year $4000

Research Interests:

• Computer-mediated communication
• Evaluation of the WWW
• Health informatics
• ICT and tourism
• Web 2.0
• Semantic web

ASB Profile: http://www.asb.unsw.edu.au/schools/Pages/JohnD'Ambra.aspx