Prof. Wolfgang Prinz, PhD studied informatics at the University of Bonn and received his PhD in computer science from the University of Nottingham. He is deputy head of Fraunhofer FIT in Bonn, division manager of the Collaboration systems research department in FIT, and Professor for cooperation systems at RWTH Aachen.

He is carrying out research in the area of Cooperative Systems, Social Web and Pervasive Games. He participated in and managed several national research and international research projects and he is currently coordinator of a large European research project on collaborative work environments.

As developers of collaborative work environments, we may consider the rising wave of new ideas and applications within the Web 2.0 domain as a hazard that sweeps us away or we can learn to surf this wave. In my presentation I'll first distill Web 2.0 applications and technologies to identify the basic concepts. Then I'll discuss how these concepts can be used for the design and development of cooperative work applications.