The European Group for Public Administration (EGPA)
Permanent Study Group on e-Government
The 2020 Annual Conference of the European Group for Public Administration will be held in Budapest, Hungary, from the 1st to the 4th of September 2020. For this conference, the Permanent Study Group on e-Government requests abstracts for papers relating to: (1) e-Government and service...
Recently published research by CRISP members Dr Daragh Murray and Professor Pete Fussey on human rights law approaches to bulk monitoring of communications data by intelligence agencies was today selected by Cambridge University Press as a research highlight across its publications to celebrate Human Rights Day 2019. Selected publications are released by CUP on open access and this paper is...
CRISP co-director Professor Pete Fussey invited to speak at Estonian Institute of Human Rights annual conference to discuss the impact of technological innovation on human rights. Other confirmed event speakers include President of the Republic of Estonia, Kersti Kaljulaid, former Prime Minister of Estonia Siim Kallas and Raivo Aeg, Minister of Justice. Event details and livestreaming here at...
Call for papers: Algorithmic Transparency in Government
Information Polity
Guest co-editors:
Sarah Giest (Leiden University)
Stephan Grimmelikhuijsen (Utrecht University)
Introduction
Machine-learning technologies and the algorithms that power them hold a huge potential to make government services fairer and more effective, ‘freeing’ decision-making from human...
Huge congratulations go to St Andrews CRISP Researcher Meghan McNamara who has achieved her first publication. In the words of her supervisor and co-author, Professor Steve Reicher, Meghan is definitely one to watch! Released last week in Frontiers in Psychology the paper is entitled ‘The Context-Variable Self and Autonomy: Exploring Surveillance Experience, (Mis)recognition, and Action at...
CRISP Director, Professor Charles Raab, has been appointed as a member of the Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group (BFEG). The BFEG is an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Home Office. The remit of the group includes consideration of the ethical impact on society, groups and individuals of the capture, retention and use of human samples and biometric identifiers for...
Professor William Webster, with Professor Albert Meijer, have recently published a special issue of the journal Information Polity (Vol.24, No.3) on ‘Governing smart cities’. The special issue takes a critical look at some of the emergent governance issues in smart city environments. The issue places significance on social, institutional and historical contexts alongside technological issues...
CRISP has been successful in helping secure research funding with Muscat College in Oman to assess citizen engagement with e-participation initiatives. The Project Team includes Dr. Tamanna Dalwai, Dr. Menila James, Professor William Webster, Dr. Abdullah Mohammed Alshukaili and Dr. Arockiasamy Soosaimanickam. The research is funded by The Research Council (Sultanate of Oman) via the Block...
Smart Governance for Sustainable Cities Cycling Citizen Summit
Summary
Participants
São Paulo: NGOs, municipality, activists, journalists, researchers, students;
Glasgow: experts, policy makers, researchers, cycling activists, the general cycling public; Utrecht: citizens, cycling associations, public officers from local and regional government, researchers, a traffic...
Surveillance Camera Day will be a national event to encourage a conversation about the use of surveillance cameras in modern society. The day is not meant to be a celebration of surveillance cameras, but is intended to encourage awareness about surveillance cameras and a debate about how they are used in society. Of particular importance, is the pressing need for a nationwide conversation...
