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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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Recent Posts
- ECI4all sytem: Replacement of OCS announced – but who are they?
- Disconnected Democracy: what Scotland's Community Councils aren't doing online
- The resistible rise of Facebook
- What are community councils doing online in Scotland
- Identity, local citizenship and a modest proposal
- Social media and The Lives of Others… Stasi Media?
- Open source, open data, open options?
- Risk & control issues around social media in local government
- Online citizen engagement in Scotland: The independence referendum
- Want a Smart City? Take the people out!
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Category Archives: news
Knowledge Society Forum – October 19/20
If you can represent a EUROCITIES member or can wrangle an invite, this event might be of interest: Birmingham City Council and Digital Birmingham are hosting the autumn 2010 Knowledge Society Forum (KSF) from 19-20 October on the theme of … Continue reading
CfP: for Special Issue of Journal of Information Technology and Politics Online deliberation
Call for Papers Special Issue of Journal of Information Technology and Politics Online deliberation: Developments and future directions Over the past ten years, a sizeable, multidisciplinary body of research has developed which is focused on analyzing new sites and practices … Continue reading
Posted in e-democracy, e-participation, news
Tagged call for papers, cfp, ict, politics
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The ECI: Can the European Council avoid killing it?
The ‘orientation debate’ on the ECI held on 23 April can be seen here on the Commission site (I’m not sure what the excuse is for the terrible quality of audio streaming). The council is trying to get the proposal … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Links, e-participation, Europe, news, research
Tagged e-participation, ECI, eu, EuroPetition
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Off to Malmö
I’m off to Malmö – two related reasons. First – the regular EuroPetition project meeting. I’m looking forward to how everyone is progresing in their cluster, and talking about our progress with the evaluation process. What I’ve seen so far … Continue reading
Scottish Parliament debates their petitioning system
While I was away (on the 23rd), the debate on June’s report on the Scottish Parliament’s petitioning system took place: Petitioning the Scottish Parliament: What happens now? A blog entry on the Scottish Parliament’s debate on the (e-)petitioning system (34 … Continue reading





