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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- 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
- How I became a password cracker | Ars Technica
- Gamasutra - News - Valve wants to see you sweat - in the name of game design
- ASCC Local Community Councils
- DMBOK2 Framework - DAMA International
- Design-Led Innovation in Government | Stanford Social Innovation Review
- Internet Census 2012
Category Archives: opensource
Open source, open data, open options?
I’ve been looking at open source in government and e-participation in particular for a while now, and this seems a good time to try to get into shape my thoughts on some of the reasons why open source is still … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Links, e-government, e-participation, opensource, thoughts, UK
Tagged egovernment, opendata, opengov, opensource, UK
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Beer and liberty
Looking back at some research into open source in Europe I did way back in 2006, I’m struck again by how important other aspects of ‘open’ and ‘free’ have become since then. Research carried out in the mid-decade had assumed … Continue reading
A way some companies make money out of open source
Bottom line: keep control of your code, but release versions of it under an opensourc license. The Commercial Open Source Business Model | Dirk Riehle Commercial open source software projects are OSS projects that are owned by a single firm … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Links, opensource, research, Techie
Tagged business model, opensource, riehle
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CfP: JITP2010 – Politics of Open Source
May 6-7, 2010 – Amherst, Massachusetts Political issues closely tied to the free and open source software movement(s) include: national government policies related to the adoption of open source technologies or questions related to interoperability and open standards, software patents, … Continue reading
“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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