Viviane Frings-Hessami is a Lecturer and Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow in the Faculty of Information Technology. She is researching the information access and information preservation needs and preferences of marginalised rural communities with the aim to design a framework for culturally-sensitive and gender-sensitive information dissemination and information preservation.

Viviane has multidisciplinary expertise in archival science, political science, Asian studies and community informatics. She received a PhD in Political Science from Monash University (2000) and an MA in Southeast Asian Studies from the University of Kent, UK (1991). She also holds a Graduate Diploma in Information and Knowledge Management with specialisations in Archives and Recordkeeping and in Library and Information Science from Monash University (2015). Since 2015, she has occupied teaching and research positions in the Faculty of Information Technology, as a Research Fellow on the PROTIC project, a community-informatics project in collaboration with Oxfam in Bangladesh, from September 2017 to March 2020.

Fiorella Foscarini holds a PhD in archival studies from the University of British Columbia. Before joining the Faculty of Information in January 2010, she worked as Senior Archivist for the European Central Bank in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) for a decade. Previously, she was Head of the Records Management Office and Intermediate Archives (Ufficio Protocollo e Archivio Generale) with the Province of Bologna (Italy). From 2014 to 2016, she taught archival studies in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands).