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Peter Cruickshank
Teaching & researching information systems management
Lecturer and sometime Research Fellow at Edinburgh Napier University. I teach topics around e-commerce, information and social media strategy, knowledge management and security & governance of information systems. My interests include governance of information systems, risk management, identity and privacy, citizen engagement, and open source for egovernment.
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Found along the way- The TREsPASS Project
- Producing Open Source Software
- Social Tools in the Workplace: a Microsoft survey « Learning in the Social Workplace
- 12 Papers on Social Media and Political Participation | DemocracySpot
- IS Theory
- Wiki VOIS Database - The SROI Network
- Mining the Social Web - Github code examples
- Hiding in Plain Sight: A New APT Campaign | Security Intelligence Blog | Trend Micro
- Certificate in Information Security Management Principles | Certificate in Information Security Management Principles | Foundation | IT Governance and Information Security | Certifications | BCS Certifications
- How do we escape the hysteria that threatens to erode public debate? | Peter Beaumont | Comment is free | The Observer
Category Archives: ipr
“The Public Domain”
The Public Domain | James Boyle James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinating case studies, … Continue reading
Posted in bibliography, Daily Links, ipr, opensource
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Identity, privacy… and art
Here’s a thought provoking story (on several levels): Ton’s Interdependent Thoughts: Hate Mailers Unmasked by Context Collapse Katinka van Bruggen, a Dutch artist, confronts the audience with inconsistencies in their morals and behaviour. A lot of her projects deal with … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Links, Europe, ipr, news, Privacy
Tagged copyright, ipr, Privacy, rage, transparency
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BBC gets interactive with technology planning
I see the BBC started up an ‘Internet Blog‘ in October, in their words as A place where we, senior staff from BBC Future Media teams will talk about issues raised by you about the technology behind bbc.co.uk, our mobile … Continue reading
Posted in ipr, Techie, UK
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BBC’s iPlayer: why?
Groklaw – Interview with Mark Taylor, Pres. of UK Open Source Consortium, by Sean Daly The case against BBC’s iPlayer: it isn’t usable, didn’t have to be bound to Microsoft’s DRM and cost £123m to build. Pretty convincing… assuming another … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Links, e-democracy, ipr, UK
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Combining FLOSS licenses
The Free-Libre / Open Source Software (FLOSS) License Slide – David Wheeler Showing how common FLOSS licenses can be combined. Ignores EU aspects, such as moral/database rights etc (tags: opensource ipr usa reference)
Posted in Daily Links, ipr, open-source
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