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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: petitioning
Has e-petitioning been ‘useless’?
I think I’ll use my first blog post of 2011 (Happy New Year by the way) for a quick refresher on (e)petitioning. One of my favourite quotes on the subject of e-petitions is from a letter to the Telegraph of … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Links, e-democracy, e-participation, Europe, UK
Tagged e-democracy, e-participation, e-petitions, parliament, petitioning, petitions, politics, UK
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Consultation on epetitions procedures for England
As Fraser Henderson noted last week, the UK Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) has launched a consultation on the e-petitions process for English councils. This consultation runs for 12 weeks from Wednesday 2 December 2009 until Wednesday 24 … Continue reading
Posted in e-democracy, e-participation, UK
Tagged e-participation, petitioning, england, e-petition
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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
EU review of eParticipation, petitions and empowering communities
Thinking about challenges for e-participation projects – reporting on my visit to a transdwatch event in Brussels, and linking it to the report on community participation published by CLG. Continue reading
Posted in Daily Links, e-democracy, e-participation, Europe
Tagged e-petitions, england, Europe, petitioning, planning
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