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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- 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
Tag Archives: eParticipation
Participation and open data
Overview of the subject – with links and accompanying presentation. All good stuff Social Strategy Talk: Participation and Open data :: Lee Bryant | Headshift Presentation at the Amsterdam Social Strategy Talk, talking about the issue of public participation and … Continue reading
Self-efficacy as a factor in evaluation of e-petitions
This is the presentation I gave at EDEM ’09 in Vienna on Tuesday In brief: E-petitions are seen as one response to a perceived decline in public trust of political institutions and the associated symptoms of disengagement. In this paper, … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Daily Links, e-participation, Europe, paper
Tagged e-petitions, edem 2009, eParticipation, EuroPetition, self-effficacy, vienna
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Link: UK digital engagement policy reading list
How we got here « BASIC CRAFT Ross Fergusson’s essential reading list for those interested in the development of government’s digital engagement policies (tags: egovernment participation strategy policy uk 2009 reference)
Posted in Daily Links, e-government, e-participation, UK
Tagged egovernment, engagement, eParticipation, UK
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PEP-NET: another European e-Participation network
A new eParticipation project/network has just launched: PEP-NET will be a European network of all stakeholders active in the field of eParticipation. PEP-NET therefore already includes public bodies, solution providers and citizen organizations as well as researchers and scientists. The … Continue reading
Posted in e-participation, Europe, news, research
Tagged consultancy, e-participation, ec, eParticipation, Europe, practitioner, research
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Does an opensource approach help e-democracy?
The relationship between open-source development methods and promotion of e-participation is often taken for granted; indeed many e-participation projects are funded on the condition that the code created is open-source. These notes for a possible research project question that assumption. … Continue reading
Posted in e-democracy, e-government, e-participation, Europe, open-source, opensource
Tagged e-participation, eParticipation, FLOSS, opensource, project management
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