Here’s a list of all the articles on this blog:
- Talking to imagined citizens: Why share information when no-one talks back?
- Community representatives, information channels and citizen democratic engagement
- Keep up with my current research
- Community representatives and online communication
- Lurking and what leaders know about their invisible audience
- Information literacy to support democratic engagement
- Hear from postgraduate MSc Business Information Technology students
- A modest proposal… for the ECI
- Risks, controls & incident handling, and why they matter
- What can TOE say about information security?
- MSc Business Information Technology: There’s more to computing than coding!
- Democratic Participation in a Citizen’s Europe: What Next for the EU?
- Looking for a theory to explain the impact of security on technology adoption decisions
- #digiCC – our report on digital engagement workshops
- Background information on Community Councils in Scotland
- Is it all deliberate dereliction of duty?
- Community councils online? Up to a point, Lord Copper
- Cloud Security Alliance EMEA preconference seminar
- ECI4all sytem: Replacement of OCS announced – but who are they?
- 1872
- 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!
- Open data and personal data systems in the UK and England (+ Scotland and Wales and NI?)
- Local government and social networking
- <yawn>, <stretch>, …
- Next challenge for petitioning software: the ECI
- Co-design for Smart Cities
- The 100 day lifespan of the e-petition
- CfP extended: IADIS e-Democracy conference, Rome July 2011
- Petitions to the European Parliament – 2009 report
- Has e-petitioning been ‘useless’?
- Some thoughts on privacy in UK and Europe
- Future Democracy ’10 – London 2 December
- Knowledge Society Forum – October 19/20
- PEP-NET Summit: My ECI/petitioning presentation
- Coming soon – the PEP-NET Summit
- Communities conference at the Scottish Parliament, 2 October
- CfP: for Special Issue of Journal of Information Technology and Politics Online deliberation
- Loving the lurkers – the paper
- Scottish Breakfast Meeting – Edinburgh 23 September
- Call for Papers for CeDEM11
- Loving the lurkers – the presentation
- ePart10 in Lausanne, and thinking about why we should love the lurkers
- Resilience versus efficiency
- Beer and liberty
- The EU Council moves towards simplifying the ECI. But is it workable yet?
- Not ECI monomania…
- The ECI: Can the European Council avoid killing it?
- Round up of (negative) reactions to the ECI regulations…
- Coming up: Dialogue on eParticipation in Central and Eastern Europe
- Design considerations for the ECI
- Security for signatures: petitions and the European Citizens’ Initiative
- A model of how local issues are debated
- Consultation on epetitions procedures for England
- Future Democracy ’09
- EuroPetition update: translation and authentication
- A data standard for e-petitions: time for your feedback
- Off to Malmö
- Opendata quality part 2: Local government in England
- Opendata + poor quality control = trouble?
- Europe: conservative, cautious or…?
- Participation and open data
- 10 Years of ITC
- Link: UK GovTalk Data Standards Catalogue – part of e-GIF
- What problem with e-petitions?
- A way some companies make money out of open source
- Data standards for ePetitions
- CfP: JITP2010 – Politics of Open Source
- Knitting my social network apps together
- CFP: 10th European Conference on e-Government ECEG 2010
- Three counter-intuitive opinion pieces
- 10 Things about the Lisbon Treaty
- European Congress of Local and Regional Authorities
- ALDA: Linking together e-dem agencies across Europe
- E-Petitioning a Council: A new flow diagram
- Journal of IT & Politics
- Scottish Parliament debates their petitioning system
- Policy & Internet Journal – Call for Papers
- EDEM 2010 in Austria – Call for papers
- Back…
- Self-efficacy as a factor in evaluation of e-petitions
- Political self-efficacy… mmm (updated)
- EDEM 09: Social Networking tools – room for common standards?
- EDEM 09: Some challenges for e-government
- The problem with ofcom
- “The Public Domain”
- Heredity monarch-to-be promotes grass roots democracy
- Edinburgh Compact
- Help for Councils to use information in decision making
- Local government: Building websites, and the impact of the recession
- Some work if you’re interested: on authentication, identity and privacy
- Online town planning links – Edinburgh and Scotland
- A dictionary and an unexpected user of Web2.0
- Links: More Norfolk and another possible bonus from opening up government data
- Norfolk, strategic drivers and creating an online presence
- More support for opensource e-gov projects in Europe
- Social Networking
- Links: Support community engagement
- Some links: e-inclusion, smarter cities and safeguarding identity
- Citizens designing public services (in Edinburgh on 30 June)
- Link: FEED Project
- Cross-European deliberation: Is English the only option?
- Links: Identity management
- e-Petitions: democracy and participation
- Event: Reboot Britain and PICamp
- Links: Digital Britain and Web 2.0 goodness
- EU review of eParticipation, petitions and empowering communities
- Review of petitions at the Scottish Parliament
- Becoming a Smart City: policy setting, a case study and planning core infrastructure
- City portals: How e-government evolves into e-participation
- Link: e-inclusion and communities
- Link: OSOR Community
- Link: Overcoming the small hurdles to successful e-participation
- Links: Parliamentary outreach UK and EP style
- Identity, privacy… and art
- LGEO: Use of social media mapping by councils
- OneScotland update: National Entitlement Card system is now live
- Link: World Bank’s take on participation
- Reflecting on NDI09: 6 themes and 3 that got away
- Digital Inclusion conference, London…
- (UK) local government, Web2.0 and social networking
- Link: Avaaz
- Links: Urban regeneration in Edinburgh
- Link: UK digital engagement policy reading list
- Assurance for eParticipation Widgets
- Link: EGov IG at W3C
- I’m dirty, baby!
- Link: Trendswatch at the DG InfoSoc
- No Barroso
- Yaawwn
- Link: A Policy and Legal Framework for Identity Management
- eDem2009 conference, Austria
- Story: How even the best e-participation intentions can go astray
- Links: Multi-lingual participation? (and UK data by the back door)
- Link: Digital Inclusion Conference 2009 – London
- Link: Don’t use these passwords
- European e-participation day
- Link: Consultation institute
- Why it’s important to have a clear petitioning process
- Two approaches to planning for e-government
- Overview of Bristol City Council’s approach to e-petitions
- Wondering why or how to get political buy-in for your transnational project?
- Consequences of SQL breaches at Kaspersky
- Loet Leydesdorff and the Triple Helix
- Google AJAX API
- Identity, authentication and authorisation
- Conference: Online information 2009, Manchester
- Social networks: understand your market
- ReadWriteWeb
- Petitions to the European Parliament in 2007/08
- Online petitions in the European context
- Laptops for kids in Norfolk
- A British Standard for forensics
- Two egov conferences for the price of one
- Euro-Petitions: Supranational democratic experimentalism?
- A couple of items on SQL injection
- Links: (non)evalution of Security Policies + crowdsourced policy formation Obama style
- FOSS in European research
- eParticipation practitioners in Scotland, and local democracy in the UK
- OneScotland: Single sign-on for scotland.gov
- Why MPs don’t blog
- Drupal for KM – or WordPress or Google?
- e-Democracy ’08 – a good day out
- The bigger picture: looking to the next golden age
- Security: Things are getting better
- City egovernment case studies from epractice.eu
- Coding in the cloud
- Knowledge Management & Knowledge Transfer
- Sentient Cities and Stephen Graham
- More links: Policy, information management and the ‘opensource’ business model
- The trouble with (government use of personal) data and why it keeps getting worse
- Understanding web application security
- Building a better Scotland
- More city-level e-participation resources
- New project: SmartCities
- Microsoft’s security philosphy
- Getting the point of security across to developers
- Legal entities proposed for carrying out European research
- A whole lot of e-participation
- Verizon data breach report
- Parliament on YouTube/eParticipation work programme 2008
- Link: DebateGraph
- Story: e-Petitions on the rise | politics.co.uk
- Out the office…
- Link: Windows command line security tricks
- An update on Web 2.0 economics
- Security over unauthorised devices: Ur doin it rong
- Who controls your data clouds? (aka beware the PATRIOT Act)
- PEP-NET: another European e-Participation network
- Conference: Leveraging the OS community for business
- e-Petitions: We want one too, says Lord Norton
- Data protection to be built into FP7 projects
- IT Policy Compliance
- Some security/audit links
- MeTTeG08
- OT: Limits of sovereignty
- Another event called ‘eGOV08’
- ITIL 3
- Two e-democracy conferences in September
- Does an opensource approach help e-democracy?
- It’s not impossible to break disk encryption…
- Links: The future for security products and a list of resources
- Update on FP7 support for e-Participation
- Thinking about Politics Web 2.0 – The Holloway Conference
- Opensource projects doubling every 14 months (or so)
- FSA takes personal data seriously
- Domain names for UK governments and parliaments
- Update on the Welsh e-petitioning system
- Welsh Assembly e-petitions
- Debate around the Treaty of Lisbon
- e-Petitioning for the UK parliament
- Some European projects looking at e-participation and engaging citizens generally
- BBC’s Digital Democracy Questionnaire
- European E-Participation Portal
- Links: Privacy and EU projects
- OpenDemocracy’s de Borda experiment
- Link: Building an OS community
- Article: Charles Leadbeater on e-participation and the South
- Link: World eParliament report
- Facebook and the political context
- links for 2008-02-05
- Link: Public Sector Forums
- Link: FP7 Programme – Cordis
- Conference: Tools for Participation
- Looking for silver lining
- Link: FP7 Find a call
- Trust in UK institutions – the BBC and the politicians
- Tracking government consultations
- Link: e-Participation and local democracy
- Link: DARE and SHARE
- Link: FIPR
- OT: Martin Lukes at the BBC?
- A couple of e-participation sites
- More discgate news
- links for 2007-12-08
- UK’s parliament looks at online petitioning
- Welcome home, Ross!
- HMRC CDs…
- Conference: Ethics, Technology and Identity
- Link: Dark Reading – a security news source
- Link: CESG
- Two online engagement updates
- Academic research into use of blogs and social networking
- ICT and European Parliaments
- Link: Report from e-Democracy 07
- Link: UK media sites usage stats
- BBC gets interactive with technology planning
- EPMA eGovernment day – 2008
- BarCampUKGovWebMeetingJanuary2008
- Auto tagging of blog entries
- Running web apps from the desktop: Port 80 now does everything
- Links: Integrated eParticipation, CMS selection, security research
- MPs may be able to use technology in the Chamber of Parliament
- Links: UK politics and libel laws, and OpenIDs weaknesses
- Links: Impacts of social networks
- BBC’s iPlayer: why?
- Report on Scotland’s 2007 voting fiasco
- No anonymity in UK Forums
- Protect your personal data: Don’t host it in the US
- Data Protection law and US-hosted forums
- Representativeness and deliberation
- Letting the people decide (please not!)
- Choosing an open source CMS
- Combining FLOSS licenses
- Why are you implementing mobile technology?
- Links: Security testing tools
- Freedom of expression vs national sovereignty
- Scotland is asked to talk to itself, online
- Audit and security resources
- Link: Sharing information between parliaments
- Links: IST for Parliamentarians, DSpace as model of OSS projects
- Link: Convince me
- Jeremy Gould
- OpenID: How government CAN play a positive role
- Forensics and security audit
- Link: Designing websites for engagement
- Open source: Time to get cautious?
- New Zealand’s approach to e-Government
- Links: More mashup potential and another project listing site
- Links: BCP and national security, plus a couple of official e-participation sites
- More on locating the debate
- What do you do if the Right starts doing the right (open) thing?
- Links: Building online communities and more
- In a networked world, where is the debate taking place?
- Links: e-Participation projects
- Links: Search visualisation + 2 UK egov people
- Where Web2.0, IPR and e-participation intersect
- Story: Mixing licenses in an application
- Blogging and participation
- Links: Online politics
- Links: Web2.0 tools for eparticipation
- Link: Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary
- Integrating e-participation with an existing web presence
- CoPe_it
- A whole stack of interesting links
- The future of OpenID
- Online Public Sphere
- Search Entropy in action: Google loves Wikipedia
- Some OSS Content Management Systems
- OpenID can add mashups to your e-participation system
- e-Democracy in local government
- Deliberation system overview
- John Reid and the first emperor (off topic)
- Open Source in the UK
- Some coordination for e-government OSS in the UK at last
- FOSDEM: Regular European OSS event
- Displaying and managing online debates
- Where (hyper)text is going
- Informatics lectures
- Local e-participation in England
- The Norman of Everyday Things
- Conference: DEXA e-government society
- Links: Social network analysis + and another OSS biblio resource
- Links: the nature of privacy, the nature of the BSD license
- Case study/interview methodology
- KM link, and more on OSOR
- eGovBlog
- French government supporting OSS
- Naked Objects
- French MPs go for OSS
- Tools for mashups
- Xapian search engine
- MySociety’s ePetitioner architecture
- Here’s an IDeA: CoP for local government
- Three links: EU, OSS and web usability
- Guidance on qualitative research
- OpenForum Europe
- MP Map: What you can do with Ajaxified snakeoil
- ICELE
- Update to opensource bibliography
- Cool political animation
- Comedy, news, facts and political debate
- Votebug
- Windows Live Academic
- Business case for F/L OSS
- ePetitioning the UK Prime Minister
- Hype Cycle
- Social Market Foundation on data sharing
- OSS 2007 Conference
- Social Networks and e-Grooming?
- e-Government wishlist
- Public-i and eParticipate: webcasting of meetings
- Two e-government conferences
- Links from eChallenges: e-democracy and practitioner networks
- Back from eChallenges 2006
- Anti-FLOSS: Preemptive action by the proprietary software movement
- Off topic link: Bad Science
- politik-digital
- Google Scholar: the ultimate bibliographical resource?
- Mathias Klang
- Three e-democracy links
- Measuring maturity of open source applications
- Kable eGovernment news
- Open Source Software Repository (OSOR)
- Link: GovXchange
- Become an expert reviewer for European Projects
- eMayor: an open source package of services for small PAs
- Activity Theory
- Open Source Software Struggles With Policy Vacuum
- e-Participation for local government in the UK
- Theories of everything
- Two blogs around online community and democracy
- The Third International Conference on Open Source Systems
- Link: Demos
- The future of e-participation
- CiteULike – a proper online bibliography?
- Online open source bibliography at University of Brandenburg
- GPL misunderstandings discussed
- Debate Europe and online participation
- Link: David Wilcox
- Northern Ireland eGovernment Unit Blog
- Everything you need to know about Web 2.0 users…
- A couple of parliamentary links for 2006-09-01
- A couple of OSS software engineering links
- Patent system strangling open source?
- Some bibliography links
- Update to bibliography links
- Demo-NET stakeholder meeting report now online
- The internet is shit
- Entropy, search results and finding answers
- Four links for 2006-08-25
- Link: GROKLAW
- Link: Ariadne article on choosing OSS
- On-line Open Source bibliography(ies)
- Link: Simon Dickson – social network consultant
- Scheduling the deliverables
- Link: IDABC Open Source Observatory
- Correcting the gender imbalance in open source development
- Structuring the Open Source literature review
- More web presence
- Euromyths debunked
- wd97template: a bit of real code wot I wrote
- Planning the literature review
- OSS, copyright and OpenOffice.org: Sun vs IBM
- A model for public sector support for open source development
- Some more Euro-OSS links
- Europe still doesn’t know what to do with OSS
- Helping European PAs share applications
- Black boxes and soft systems
- The argument against government support for OSS
- Some links for July
- The alienating blogosphere
- Search as an application, not a bolt-on
- OSS links for 2006-07-01
- How to use open source with confidence
- News just in!
- Prospect Magazine
- links for 2006-06-23
- links for 2006-06-22
- links for 2006-06-21
- links for 2006-06-20
- Word of the day: timocracy
- Matching OSS theory against practise in European projects
- Questions for e-participation practitioners
- Who takes part in the online debate?
- EU surveying current levels of eGovernment
- EU wants online debate, or: Plan D from outer space
- OUT-LAW and Open Source
- QUALEG: Getting emails to the right person
- Democracy, ICT and representation
- Outlining the areas of F/LOSS research
- Boyle’s retort
- Open source = open government?
- Quality and Open Source
- eGovernment Strategies: ICT innovation in international public sector contexts
- What makes OSS projects different?
- Welcome
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