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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
Tag Archives: UK
Identity, local citizenship and a modest proposal
Starting from the overlap of geography, identity and citizenship online – and how it relates to e-identity. Raises questions including: what does it mean to be a ‘citizen’ of a place (city) when you’re online? Can a location decide you are not a citizen? How can a city know if it’s dealing with a real person? How do we define who is entitled to participate in a local space, and to what extent? Continue reading
Posted in e-government, UK
Tagged citizens, identity, local democracy, local government, UK
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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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Open data and personal data systems in the UK and England (+ Scotland and Wales and NI?)
A couple of months ago, Mydex (via William Heath) published a brief UK list of government initiatives on the Ideal Government site, looking at applications of personal data systems (PDS). The motivation is the belief that: Only the addition of … Continue reading
Local government and social networking
Dan Slee has just posted a great summary with tons of example of the opportunities that intelligent use of Facebook can open up for local government. I’ve had a couple of thoughts in response (a bit much for a comment, … Continue reading
Posted in e-government, UK
Tagged facebook, inclusion, local government, social networking, UK
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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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