Paul Spiesberger graduated from the Vienna University of Technology with a degree in computer science. He is currently working with INSO as the Operative Head of ROTA and lecturer in the field of mobile technologies and ICT4D. Since 2024, he has been an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Software Technology located at TU Graz. Paul is also employed as a senior lead software engineer for mobile technologies at RISE. In the past, he won several national and international awards for his work at Os – a collective to tackle social issues with ICTs. Since 2014 Paul has been the chair of ICT4D.at, and in 2021, he joined the ICT4D Collective.