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...
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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
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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...
Elaine has joined CRISP as a researcher on the ESRC funded SmartGov project. Her recent doctoral research examines the use of 'acceptable use' rules and processes in the UK library sector. Elaine will be based at the University of Stirling.
The 2019 Annual Conference of the European Group for Public Administration (EGPA) will be held in Belfast, North Ireland from 11-13 September 2019. The Conference is being organised in collaboration with Queen’s University Belfast. For this conference, the Permanent Study Group on e-Government requests (1) abstracts for papers relating to the meeting theme of innovation labs, and (2) those...
Professor Pete Fussey has been asked by the Surveillance Camera Commissioner to lead a new strand of his national strategy focusing on human rights. The work will focus on foregrounding and embedding human rights principles into national surveillance policy instruments. A blog post of planned work has been published on the Surveillance Camera Commissioner's website here.
CRISP would like to extend a warm welcome to new PhD students Janis Wong and Anuj Puri. Both join us on St Leonards Interdisciplinary Studentships.
Janis is jointly based in the Department of Computing and the School of Management. She is supervised by Dr Tristan Henderson and Professor Kirstie Ball. Her PhD will address the instantiation of values in the data science process.
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Kirstie Ball has been appointed to a five year research fellowship at the Surveillance Studies Centre (SSC) at Queen's University in Canada. She has been collaborating with the centre on research projects for nearly 20 years and the appointment cements this long standing and productive relationship.
Kirstie's current role in relation to the work of SSC involves being the St Andrews...
International Research Society for Public Management
16-18 April 2019, University of Victoria Wellington, New Zealand
A number of leading technology commentators have argued that we are on the cusp of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. We have seen significant advancements made in fields such as robotics, artificial intelligence, additive manufacturing (better known as 3D printing...