Her research also addresses Responsible AI, sustainable AI, and the broader implications of AI for (public) data and digital ecosystems. By exploring the interplay between technology, society, and policy, her work contributes to the resilience, sustainability, and inclusiveness of complex socio-technical systems and informs AI governance and decision-making. Her work also includes the design and evaluation of AI-enabled user–system interaction tools, such as recommender systems and conversational agents, aimed at supporting user experience and decision-making in complex digital environments. Her research examines where AI ambitions meet the realities of governance, institutional legitimacy, and organizational readiness – and how to ensure that technological innovation translates into responsible and sustainable practice.

Anastasija leads and contributes to international research collaborations and funded initiatives spanning Horizon Europe, Erasmus+, COST Actions, and national research programmes. You can learn more about the projects she is involved in here. Her work also involves collaboration with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre.

Anastasija serves on the editorial boards of several leading international journals, including International Journal of Information Management, Electronic Markets, Government Information Quarterly, IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society, and Data & Policy. She chairs tracks at major international conferences in Information Systems, AI, and digital government, including IFIP EGOV-CEDEM-EPART, dg.o, AMCIS, and HICSS, and contributes to workshops at ECAI, IJCAI, PRICAI, and CBI-EDOC. She actively contributes to international research and professional communities, including IFIP Working Group 8.5 on ICT and Public Administration, the AIS Women’s Network College, and Women in AI. She is also a board member of the Digital Government Society and a mentor for the GovStack Women in GovTech Challenge. Her international collaborations and engagements also include the KNOW Center, the Digital Statecraft Academy, and the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), including its FAIR Metrics and Digital Objects Task Force, where she has contributed to work on FAIR metrics and data quality. She has also contributed as an expert to the Latvian Council of Science, covering both Engineering and Technology (ICT) and Social Sciences (Economics and Business).

Her research has received international recognition, including the Claudia Ciborra Award at ECIS 2026, the Most Innovative Paper award at IFIP EGOV 2026, and the Latvian Open Technology Association’s Person of the Year award for contributions to open data and open technologies. She has also been included in Stanford University’s World’s Top 2% Scientists list in Artificial Intelligence (2023–2026) and recognised by ScholarGPS among the world’s top 0.23% of scholars, including being ranked #1 in Open Government in 2025 and #6 in Government (based on the preceding five years).