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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!
Recent Comments
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: USA
Link: EGov IG at W3C
Came across this lot yesterday. Many of the usual suspects involved (eg Debategraph), and some interesting ideas floating around about bypassing representative democracy altogether, but there are RSS feeds and a mailing list which will now be tracking. W3C eGovernnment … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Links, e-participation, egovernment, Europe, USA
Tagged egovernment, standards, w3c
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Yaawwn
Diebold Admits Voting Machine Flaw – Business Center – PC World Machine lost votes, and didnt record the loss on the audit trail. The story just keeps building (tags: 2009 usa security edemocracy audit)
Story: How even the best e-participation intentions can go astray
There’s a story over at Intellics highlighting then risks incurred by the Obama government of “pseudo-dialogue” and “pseudo-civic engagement” and the need for some sort of quality assurance guidelines for the public participation efforts that the new administration is bound … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Links, e-participation, USA
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ReadWriteWeb
I caught up with ReadWriteWeb yesterday. Tons of useful and/or interesting stuff, including: Google Warns of Privacy Issues on the Social Web – ReadWriteWeb Google researchers caution that the expansion of the social Web and our growing involvement with it … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Links, e-government, Methodologies, news, Techie, USA
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Links: (non)evalution of Security Policies + crowdsourced policy formation Obama style
Companies not evaluating IT security policies efficiently – SC Magazine UK Companies do not evaluate the effectiveness of their security policies. The results of a recent survey from dns and PwC has shown that almost 30 per cent of companies … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Links, e-democracy, e-participation, Security, USA
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