Informing the Good Society (InGSoc): New Direction in Information Policy Dec 3, 2012 - Feb 28, 2017
InGSoc (Informing the Good Society: New Directions in Information Policy) is a three-year project, funded by an Arts and Humanities Research Council standard grant. The project, whose common thread is the social impact of information and technology a... Read More about Informing the Good Society (InGSoc): New Direction in Information Policy.

The evolution of social networking and its impact on Career Management Skills Oct 1, 2014 - Nov 16, 2018
In his thesis The role of networking and social media tools during job search: an information behaviour perspective Mowbray explores job search networking amongst 16-24 year olds living in Scotland, and the role of three social media platforms (Faceb... Read More about The evolution of social networking and its impact on Career Management Skills.

EDEN: Electronic Democracy European Network Feb 1, 2001 - Feb 1, 2004
The EDEN project grew out of the rationale that online information on decision-making leads to greater transparency in governance, as a pre-requisite for online consultation and participation.

EDEN deployed capabilities in computational linguisti... Read More about EDEN: Electronic Democracy European Network.

Net_Quality Jan 21, 1999 - Jun 21, 2001

OPAL: The Partner Lens Mar 1, 2002 - Feb 27, 2004
OPaL aims to explore the potential of tools that can assist firms to configure partnerships as and when required to meet the demands of a volatile distributed workplace (Handy, 1992). Whatever the motivation for re-structuring (reduced transaction co... Read More about OPAL: The Partner Lens.

Smartgov Feb 1, 2002 - Jan 31, 2004
SmartGov (IST-2001-35399) was a project funded by the European Commission under its Information Society Technologies Programme (IST). The aim of the project was to develop a governmental knowledge-based platform for public sector online services.... Read More about Smartgov.

AVANTI: Added Value Access to New Technologies and services on the Internet Jan 1, 2003 - Jul 31, 2003
AVANTI was an EC funded project (IST-2000-28585) that finished in July 2003. It focused on the use of a software toolkit to produce prototype digital avatars. These aimed to enhance the acceptability of e-government services to citizens and other... Read More about AVANTI: Added Value Access to New Technologies and services on the Internet.

E-democracy Services for Highland Youth Voice Jan 1, 2000 - Mar 31, 2008
ITC worked with Highland Youth Voice (a youth parliament in the Highland Region) from 2000 to 2008. An e-voting website, with a discussion form, supported the parliament's first elections in 2000. From 2001 to 2007, we worked with HYV staff and membe... Read More about E-democracy Services for Highland Youth Voice.

e-Community Councils Feb 1, 2004 - Jan 31, 2006
In February 2004 Edinburgh Napier University’s International Teledemocracy Centre received funding from the Scottish Executive to investigate how technology could be developed to help regenerate democracy at the local community level. Community cou... Read More about e-Community Councils.

e-engaging young Scotland on radioactive waste management Feb 1, 2004 - Jul 31, 2004
The ITC was funded by the Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department (SEERAD) to research appropriate tools and techniques to engage young people in their continuing dialogue on radioactive waste management. ITC researchers identifie... Read More about e-engaging young Scotland on radioactive waste management.

e-Petitioner for English Local Authorities Apr 1, 2004 - Mar 31, 2005
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister’s Local eDemocracy National Project (March 2004 to March 2005) investigated new channels of participation and piloted various approaches to encourage citizen participation and help elected representatives work... Read More about e-Petitioner for English Local Authorities.

HANDS: Helping Answers Decision Service Nov 1, 2005 - Jul 31, 2007
HANDS continues the work of the IST EDEN project. Natural language tools developed by Italian partners in the EDEN project were further developed and deployed in other public authorities and Utility companies. The tools aimed to route emails from the... Read More about HANDS: Helping Answers Decision Service.

e-Representative: A virtual desktop to support the mobile elected Representative Jan 2, 2006 - Jan 31, 2008
The eRepresentative package is a virtual desktop for elected representatives. It enables them to continue their legislative and policy work anytime and from anywhere with secure access to relevant and appropriate information. 
Prior to the project,... Read More about e-Representative: A virtual desktop to support the mobile elected Representative.

DEMO-Net - Network of Excellence on eParticipation Jan 1, 2006 - Dec 31, 2009
DEMO_net began to bring eParticipation experts together to try to establish some research norms. However, the project did not turn out to be the most effective way to do this. The project officer was not keen to re-work the project and eventually it... Read More about DEMO-Net - Network of Excellence on eParticipation.

E-petitioner for the Scottish Parliament Oct 1, 2000 - Oct 30, 2007
The Scottish Parliament accepted its first electronic petition from the ITC's electronic petitioning system.

The ITC (now part of the Centre for Social Informatics) worked with the Scottish Parliament from 1999 until 2007. Initially, we worked wi... Read More about E-petitioner for the Scottish Parliament.

Piloting the E-Petitioner System with the German Parliament Sep 1, 2005 - Sep 30, 2007
The International Teledemocracy Centre (ITC), now part of the Centre for Social Informatics, worked with the Petitions Committee of the German Bundestag to piloting the e-Petitioner in the German Parliament’s Public Petitions context. We took our exi... Read More about Piloting the E-Petitioner System with the German Parliament.

Library and Information Science Research Coalition Aug 1, 2009 - Jul 31, 2012
The broad mission of the LIS Research Coalition was to facilitate a co-ordinated and strategic approach to LIS research across the UK.

Professor Hazel Hall, Director of the Centre for Social Informatics, was first seconded to lead the implemen... Read More about Library and Information Science Research Coalition.

Developing Research Excellence and Methods (DREaM) Jan 1, 2011 - Aug 31, 2012
This AHRC-funded project aimed to develop a formal UK-wide network of Library and Information Science (LIS) researchers. A key goal of the project was to build capacity and capability in the development and implementation of innovative methods and... Read More about Developing Research Excellence and Methods (DREaM).

Euro Petition Feb 1, 2009 - Jan 31, 2011
The EuroPetition project piloted the implementation of a trans-European Local Authority service providing distributed citizen engagement and interaction with the European Parliament’s PETI Petitions Committee and the European Citizens' Initiative. Th... Read More about Euro Petition.

Risk and opportunity in collaborative work Jun 9, 2008 - Aug 8, 2008
Social computing tools for collaboration in work environments.
This study set out to establish the main risks and opportunities of the adoption of social computing tools within organizations for collaborative work purposes as perceived by informatio... Read More about Risk and opportunity in collaborative work.