about.me
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
Tag Archives: web2.0
EDEM 2010 in Austria – Call for papers
The next EDem conference has been shifted to May 2010, to avoid a clash with the EPart conference held in parallel with EGOV at DEXA. The call for papers is now out. More details can be found here, but here’s … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, e-participation, Europe
Tagged austria, engagement, participation, political science, politics, web2.0
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A dictionary and an unexpected user of Web2.0
If this book is at all good, I reckon it should be an essential tool for European e-gov projects: Cassell Multilingual Dictionary of Local Government and Business: The European Language Initiative: Amazon.co.uk: Clive Leo McNeir: Books Local authorities are in … Continue reading
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
(UK) local government, Web2.0 and social networking
On a trawl through the internet I came across a range of resources looking at how (local) government should (and shouldn’t) be responding to the opportunities and challenges that are presented by social networking sites (such as Facebook, Twitter) and … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Links, e-government, egovernment, research, Techie, UK
Tagged engagement, Europe, government, participation, UK, web2.0
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Two approaches to planning for e-government
First, the euro-academic report (Maria Wimmer is a well respected figure inthe area and a leading light in DEMO-NET): Roadmapping eGovernment Research – Visions and Measures towards Innovative Governments in 2020 | Wimmer & Codagnone Future eGovernment research will advance … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Links, e-democracy, e-government, e-participation, Europe, politics, UK
Tagged participation, research, web2.0
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