eGovernment

The Next Step for Online Petitions in the UK

Bill Dutton *OIINEWS, eGovernment, Fifth Estate, General Interest, Governance, Political Implications

It is brilliant to see the UK government opening up the potential for greater use of the Internet in shaping policy agendas. Apparently, the coalition government plans to allow online petitions to raise issues that might be debated in parliament. This is a very responsible approach to enabling the public to express concerns and, in … Continue reading The Next Step for Online Petitions in the UK

Democracy in a Network Society: Recommendations from a Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop

Bill Dutton eGovernment, Fifth Estate, General Interest, Internet Studies, Political Implications, Shaping the Internet, Social Issues

Democracy in a Network Society A Perspectives Workshop supported by Dagstuhl [27.09.09 - 02.10.09, Seminar 09402] Organized by: David Chaum (K.U. Leuven, BE) William H. Dutton (University of Oxford, GB) Miroslaw Kutylowski (Wroclaw University of Technology, PL) Tracy Westen (Center for Governmental Studies - Los Angeles, US) Summary The workshop was a meeting forum for … Continue reading Democracy in a Network Society: Recommendations from a Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop

A Decade in Internet Time: Symposium on the Dynamics of the Internet and Society

Bill Dutton *OIINEWS, Arts and Humanities, eGovernment, eHumanities, Fifth Estate, General Interest, Governance, Information Communication and the Social Sciences, Internet and Everyday Life, Internet Governance, Internet Studies, OII, Research and Learning, Shaping the Internet, Social Informatics, Social Issues, Social Science Research, Socio-technical Systems

A Decade in Internet Time: Symposium on the Dynamics of the Internet and Society University of Oxford 21-24 September 2011 Event: Symposium Location: OxfordUniversity of Oxford with sessions at the Social Sciences Manor Road Building, and Said Business School Organized by: Oxford Internet Institute and iCS (the journal Information, Communication and Society) Sponsors include: Routledge … Continue reading A Decade in Internet Time: Symposium on the Dynamics of the Internet and Society

CrisisCommons: Creating a Case for Investment

Bill Dutton *OIINEWS, eGovernment, Fifth Estate, General Interest, Governance, Internet and Everyday Life, OII, Political Implications, Shaping the Internet, Social Informatics, Social Issues, Socio-technical Systems

Roundtable organized by the Oxford Internet Institute in collaboration with the Programme on Comparative Media Law and Policy, University of Oxford Thursday 30 September 2010  12:30-14:00 Location: Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, 1 St Giles’ Oxford OX1 3JS Registration: Free but please e-mail your name and affiliation, if any, to events@oii.ox.ac.uk or telephone +44 … Continue reading CrisisCommons: Creating a Case for Investment

Online Identities: Selected Observations on the Big Picture

Bill Dutton eGovernment, Fifth Estate, Internet Governance, Internet Studies, Shaping the Internet, Social Informatics, Social Issues, Socio-technical Systems

Online Identities: Part of a Bigger Picture The issues surrounding identities online are complex and critically important, but they need to be addressed in relation to the larger ecology of issues in which they are embedded. Changes in the ways identity is handled on the Internet can have unintended consequences, such as jeopardizing the value … Continue reading Online Identities: Selected Observations on the Big Picture

Management Utilization of Computing – an old 1978 article online

Bill Dutton eGovernment, Governance, Research and Learning, Social Informatics, Socio-technical Systems

Pleased to see this old article online as I continue to find confirmation of our basic finding: Information systems in local governments were most useful for ad hoc queries, such a providing a list of personel ranked by salary, in contrast to more rational-comprehensive management information reports. Simpy having information in digital form enabled managers … Continue reading Management Utilization of Computing – an old 1978 article online

Personal Health Records: Legal-Institutional Constraints

Bill Dutton *OIINEWS, eGovernment, Shaping the Internet, Social Informatics, Social Issues, Social Science Research, Socio-technical Systems

A colleague of mine from my USC days, Guillermo Asper y Valdés, was in Oxford last week for a visit - but asking about UK research on personal health records. He and colleagues in Brazil and the US are undertaking research in this area. If anyone has suggestions of individuals he should contact, please let … Continue reading Personal Health Records: Legal-Institutional Constraints

A Report from Dagstuhl: Democracy in a Network Society

Bill Dutton *OIINEWS, eGovernment, Fifth Estate, Governance, Political Implications, Shaping the Internet, Social Informatics, Social Issues, Social Science Research, Socio-technical Systems

In a castle in a remote village of Dagstuhl, Germany, about a dozen colleagues from the social and computer sciences debated the role that information and communication technologies could play in shaping democratic structures and processes. We co-produced a long set of notes, and then sought to edit this down to a brief overview of … Continue reading A Report from Dagstuhl: Democracy in a Network Society

iCS Conference on ‘Networking Democracy’ at Babes-Bolyai Un, Romania, 25-27 June 2010

Bill Dutton *OIINEWS, eGovernment, Fifth Estate, Information Communication and the Social Sciences, Political Implications, Social Science Research, Socio-technical Systems

The Information Communication and Society (iCS) journal will be co-organizing a 3-day symposium on 'Networking Democracy? New Media Innovations in Participatory Politics' at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania, from the 25th through the 27th of June, 2010. I plan to participate and hope to present some of the themes from the Dagstuhl Conference I attended late … Continue reading iCS Conference on ‘Networking Democracy’ at Babes-Bolyai Un, Romania, 25-27 June 2010

Democracy in a Network Society: A Perspectives Workshop at Schloss Dagstuhl

Bill Dutton *OIINEWS, eGovernment, Fifth Estate, Governance, Political Implications, Social Science Research, Socio-technical Systems

I participated in a useful workshop on issues of e-democracy, which my colleagues and I helped organize under the title 'Democracy in a Network Society'. It was held at the Castle (Schloss) Dagstuhl's Leibniz Centre for Information Science. This and other Dagstuhl workshops are held over a period of one week in a relatively isolated … Continue reading Democracy in a Network Society: A Perspectives Workshop at Schloss Dagstuhl