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Deciding when or if transport survey data should be updated. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, N. C., & Wigan, M. (2008). Deciding when or if transport survey data should be updated.

Transport data managers within government and non-government agencies face increasing demands on resources for data management systems to process extremely large data sets collected by automated systems and for surveys to collect new types of data. T... Read More about Deciding when or if transport survey data should be updated..

Contestable evidence based policy-the role of information sharing. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wigan, M. (2008). Contestable evidence based policy-the role of information sharing.

There are three elements required for public policy to be both credible and effective. These are not necessarily the factors that all parties would agree to, but provide a common ground on which constructive disagreements can be founded. The first... Read More about Contestable evidence based policy-the role of information sharing..

Governance and evidence based policy under a National Security framework. (2008)
Book Chapter
Wigan, M. (2008). Governance and evidence based policy under a National Security framework. In K. Michael, & M. Michael (Eds.), Australia and the new technologies: Evidence based policy on public administration. [Proceedings of the] Third RSNA Workshop on

This paper addresses the conflicts of the inherent strains between evidence based policy and contestable evidence based policy under the strictures of a National Security framework. The shifts in attitudes as to what is acceptable in the applicatio... Read More about Governance and evidence based policy under a National Security framework..

A remote marriage: The theory and practice of being apart and staying together. (2008)
Book Chapter
Wigan, M. (2008). A remote marriage: The theory and practice of being apart and staying together. In S. Holland (Ed.), Remote relationships in a small world (277-284). Peter Land

Small children, a time consuming job, and remote living are not conducive to a happy life. Why does one choose to do it? If one has to, how can one arrange one's life to make a family work? What can communications do to help? It is easy to ask the qu... Read More about A remote marriage: The theory and practice of being apart and staying together..

You are where you have been. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Clarke, R. A., & Wigan, M. (2008). You are where you have been. In K. Michael, & M. Michael (Eds.), Australia and the new technologies: Evidence based policy on public administration. [Proceedings of the] Third RSNA Workshop on the Social Implications of

Location is a critical aspect of both privacy and surveillance. A detailed record of locations allows all sorts of other information to be linked together, adding to information about the subject and his or her associates in the same way that a uniq... Read More about You are where you have been..

A new data, document and geospatial repository: knowledge base and project support for a major international railway project. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wigan, M., Kukla, R., Benjamins, M., & Grashoff, P. (2008, April). A new data, document and geospatial repository: knowledge base and project support for a major international railway project. Poster presented at Third International Conference on Open Rep

The simplicity of the basic design has proved to be robust to the changing and varied needs of different ?clients?, but the complexity of the intellectual property issues engendered by the mix of commercial, open source and hand rolled software has p... Read More about A new data, document and geospatial repository: knowledge base and project support for a major international railway project..