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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: Techie
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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EDEM 09: Social Networking tools – room for common standards?
The last session at EDEM ’09 yesterday brought together a group of people are thinking about how to use social networking apps to help people participate or engage with the political process. It seems there are quite a few people … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Links, e-participation, Europe, Techie, thoughts
Tagged ipsv, ontologies, social networking, taxonomies
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Norfolk, strategic drivers and creating an online presence
Some background on activity at Norfolk County Council (one of the SmartCities partners, and also a EuroPetition cluster member). Gathered in advance of a visit… My Norfolk My Norfolk was the County’s bid for the £7m national Digital Challenge provided … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Links, e-government, egovernment, Techie, UK
Tagged communication, internet, standards, strategy
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More support for opensource e-gov projects in Europe
It would be great if all open source EC-funded projects ended up here, assuming that the long term sustainability of OSOR can be guaranteed. It also needs the rating system to be used, and many other things too no doubt, … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Links, egovernment, Europe, open-source, opensource, Techie
Tagged eupl, gpl, opensource, osor, repository
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Links: Digital Britain and Web 2.0 goodness
Summer holidays must be coming up or something. Another government report was issued this week too: UK Government’s Digital Britain Report (big PDF) Stuff for everyone. Chapter 7 and 8 deal with safety, the changes required to allow government services … Continue reading
