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Areas of Expertise

Internet Technologies & Society
Internet Technologies & Society
The technologies that help us to organise and share information on the internet are changing the way we live and work. This information society or knowledge economy people affects is in all kinds of new ways – as individuals, groups and organisations.

Projects

HUWY: Hub Website for Youth Participation
HUWY: Hub Website for Youth Participation
The HUWY project aims to support young people’s eParticipation in policies about the Internet and its governance, through a distributed discussion. HUWY partners provide information, support and organise influential audiences for young people’s suggestions.
WEB-DEP
WEB-DEP
The project aimed to establish a communication and information management network to increase democratic engagement in the Western Balkans. The network was managed by the National News Agencies in Albania, Macedonia and Serbia as they began to take on new roles during accession to the EU.
E-democracy Services for Highland Youth Voice
E-democracy Services for Highland Youth Voice
ITC are working with Highland Youth Voice (a democratically elected assembly for young people in the Highland Region) in the development of a suite of e-democracy tools for their website. The current phase of this projects runs from 2005 to 2007 and seeks to expand use and efficacy of the website:...
Piloting the E-Petitioner System with the German Parliament
ITC are working with the Petitions Committee of the German Bundestag to research and report on e-engagement using the e-Petitioner tool in order to support their Public Petitions agenda. We have taken our existing e-Petitioner System, and redesigned it in collaboration with their Online Services...
Expert Evaluation Team for the Local eDemocracy National Project
How can Local Authorities be sure that eDemocracy works? How can they be sure that they are using the right e-enabled tool for the job and that the use of these tools will result in effective input to the democratic process? And what about citizens?
e-engaging young Scotland on radioactive waste management
e-engaging young Scotland on radioactive waste management
The ITC is being 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.
Euro Petition
Euro Petition
An EU-funded project a trans-European Local Authority e-participation service providing distributed citizen engagement and interaction with the European Parliament's PETI Petitions Committee and the European Citizens Initiative. ITC is providing the evaluation function.
e-Participation Scotland Baseline
e-Participation Scotland Baseline
A one day event to: Bring people and organisations together and establish their current skills and needs.Share knowledge about current and future e-participation projects and opportunities; establish common and complementary areas of interest.Facilitate partner matching for future initiatives...
E-petitioner for the Scottish Parliament
E-petitioner for the Scottish Parliament
The ITC has been working with the Scottish Parliament since 1999, researching the design and management of an electronic petitioning system for the Public Petitions Committee of the Parliament. We have had a formal contract with The Scottish Parliament from November 2002 to 2005 to provide a hosted...
e-Community Councils
e-Community Councils
In February 2004 the ITC received funding from the Scottish Executive to investigate how technology could be developed to help regenerate democracy at the local community level. Community councils are at the heart of local government in Scotland.
e-Petitioner for English Local Authorities
Under the ODPM National Local eDemocracy Project (www.e-dem.info), the ITC is working with the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and Bristol City Council to investigate how local authorities can support active participation through e-petitioning.
Ur'Say for Young Scot
The ITC is creating on-line materials and carrying out social research for the Ur'say channel. This includes developing new action-research models for on-line facilitation and moderation of on-line discussion fora and exploring the development of democratic participation and consultation models...

Members

Peter Cruickshank
Peter Cruickshank
Lecturer
p.cruickshank@napier.ac.uk
+44 131 455 2309
Ella Taylor-Smith
Ella Taylor-Smith
Research Student (previously Senior Research Fellow)
e.taylor-smith@napier.ac.uk
+44 131 455 2392

Publications

Edelmann, N., Cruickshank, P. (2012). Introducing Psychological Factors into E-Participation Research. In: Manoharan, A., Holzer, M. (Eds.) E-Governance and Civic Engagement: Factors and Determinants of E-Democracy, , () ( ed.). (pp. 338-361). Hershey, PA.: . IGI Global Publishing.

Kimpeler, S., Lindner, R., Taylor-Smith, E., Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, P. (2012, July 2012). Supporting young people's political participation through distributed discussion - lessons obtained from an EU pilot. Paper presented at IPSA World Congress, Madrid, Spain.

Ryan, B., Cruickshank, P. (2012). Scottish Community Councils online: a survey. , (), ..

Taylor-Smith, E., Kimpeler, S., Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, P. (2012). Distributed discussion: an integrated eParticipation model for engaging young people in technology policy. In: Charalabidis, Y., Koussouris, S. (Eds.) Empowering Open and Collaborative Governance, , () ( ed.). (pp. 181-198). Berlin Heidelberg: . .

Taylor-Smith, E. (2012). Participation Spaces. In: Scholl, H., Flak, L., Janssen, M., Macintosh, A., Sæbø, ., Tambouris, E., Moe, C., Wimmer, M. (Eds.) Proceedings of Fourth international conference on eParticipation (ePart 2012), , () ( ed.). (pp. 223-230). Kristiansand, Norway: . Trauner.

Cruickshank, P., Smith, C. (2011). Understanding the 'E-Petitioner'. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 5, (4), 319-329.

Kimpeler, S., Lehner, C., Lindner, R., Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, P., Taylor-Smith, E. (2011). HUWY D7.4 Results. , (), ..

Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, P., Taylor-Smith, E., Kimpeler, S. (2011, September). Youth Participation Through Distributed Discussion. Paper presented at 5th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, Tallinn, Estonia.

Taylor-Smith, E., Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, P., Visnapuu, T., Vister, B., Kimpeler, S. (2011). HUWY D6.1. Engagement and Impact Criteria. , (), ..

Taylor-Smith, E., Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, P., Visnapuu, T. (2011). HUWY D6.2. User engagement report. , (), ..

Taylor-Smith, E., Gibson, G., Kimpeler, S., O’Kane, F., McCusker, P., Rößler, A., Visnapuu, T. (2011). HUWY D7.3. Sustainability and Scalability Plan. , (), ..

Cruickshank, P., Edelmann, N., Smith, C. (2010). Signing a an e-petition as a transition from lurking to participation. In: Chappellet, J., Glassey, O., Janssen, M., Macintosh, A., Scholl, J., Tambouris, E., Wimmer, M. (Eds.) Electronic Government and Electronic Participation, , () (2010 ed.). (pp. 275-282). Linz, Austria: . Trauner.

Duff, A. (2010). The age of access? Information policy and social progress. In: Negrine, R. (Ed.) Communications Policy: Theories and Issues, , () ( ed.). (pp. 49-64). London: . Palgrave Publishers.

Gibson, G., McCusker, P., Taylor-Smith, E. (2010, June). Online Tools and their Impact on Young People. Paper presented at ECEG 2010 10th European Conference on eGovernment, University of Limerick, Ireland.

Taylor-Smith, E. (2010, December). eParticipation to support the Information Society. Paper presented at ePractice workshop on eParticipation, European Commission, Brussels.

Taylor-Smith, E., Lindner, R. (2010). Social networking tools supporting constructive involvement throughout the policy-cycle. In: Prosser, P. (Ed.) Proceedings of EDEM 2010 - Conference on Electronic Democracy, May 7-8, 2010, Danube-University Krems, Austria, , () ( ed.). (pp. ). Vienna, Austria: . Austrian Computer Society.

Taylor-Smith, E., Cruickshank, P. (2010, October). Web 2.0 for Collaborative Production. Paper presented at Digital Futures 2010, Nottingham, UK.

Duff, A. (2009, ). The Rawls-Tawney theorem and the political economy of cyberspace. Paper presented at Cyberspace 2009, 7th Annual Conference, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

Taylor-Smith, E., Buckner, K. (2009). Designing e-Participation with Balkan journalists. JeDEM: eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government, 1, (1), .

Taylor-Smith, E., O'Kane, F., Rutherford, A. (2009). HUWY D2.1 Requirements Specification. , (), ..

Taylor-Smith, E., O'Kane, F., Newman, D. (2009). HUWY D3.1 Content. , (), ..

Taylor-Smith, E., Lindner, R. (2009). Using Social Networking Tools to Promote eParticipation Initiatives. In: Prosser, A., Parycek, P. (Eds.) Proceedings of EDEM 2009 - Conference on Electronic Democracy, September 7-8, 2009, Vienna, , () ( ed.). (pp. 115 -121). Vienna: . Austrian Computer Society.

Duff, A. (2008). The normative crisis of the information society. Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace , 2, (1), Article 3.

Taylor-Smith, E., Buckner, K. (2008). Designing e-Participation with Balkan Journalists v1. In: Parycek, P., Prosser, A. (Eds.) EDem08 E-Democracy Conference, 29th – 30th September 2008, Danube University Krems, Austria, , () ( ed.). (pp. 135 - 144). Vienna: . Austrian Computer Society.

Macintosh, A. (2006). eParticipation in Policy-making: the research and the challenges. In: Cunningham, P. (Ed.) Exploiting the Knowledge Economy: Issues, Applications and Case Studies, , () ( ed.). (pp. 364-369). : . IOS press.

Macintosh, A., Whyte, A. (2006). Evaluating how eParticipation changes local democracy. In: Ghoneim, Z. (Ed.) Proceedings of the eGovernment Workshop 2006, , () ( ed.). (pp. ). : . .

Smith, E., Macintosh, A., Whyte, A. (2006). Organised use of e-democracy tools for young people. In: Wimmer, M., Scholl, H., Gronlund, A., Anderson, K. (Eds.) Electronic Government: Communications of the Fifth International EGOV Conference 2006, , () ( ed.). (pp. 260-267). Berlin, Germany: . Springer-Verlag.

Macintosh, A., Smith, E., Whyte, A. (2005). E-Consultation, Controversy and Youth. In: Cunningham, P., Cunningham, M. (Eds.) Innovation and the Knowledge Economy: Issues, Application, Case Studies;, , () ( ed.). (pp. 730-737). Slovenia: . IOS Press.

Masters, Z., Macintosh, A., Smith, E. (2004). Young People and E-Democracy: Creating a Culture of Participation. In: (Ed.) Proceedings of Third International Conference in E-Government, EGOV 2004, , () ( ed.). (pp. ). Berlin, Germany: . Springer-Verlag.

Macintosh, A., Robson, E., Smith, E., Whyte, A. (2003). Electronic Democracy and Young People. Social Science Computer Review, 21, (1), 43-54.

Smith, E., Macintosh, A., Whyte, A. (2003). Culture and context in an online voting system for young people. In: Duquenoy, P., Fischer-Hubner, S., Hovast, J., Zuccato, A. (Eds.) IFIP Summer School: 'Risks and Challenges of the Network Society', , () ( ed.). (pp. ). Karlstad, Sweden: . .

Smith, E., Macintosh, A. (2003). E-voting: the powerful symbol of e-democracy. In: (Ed.) DEXA 2003, the 2nd International Conference on Electronic Government - EGOV 2003, , () ( ed.). (pp. ). Prague, Czech Republic: . DEXA.

Whyte, A. (2003, September 2003). Conversations with Non-Human Actors in E-Democracy. Paper presented at ECSCW e-Democracy Workshop, Helsinki, Finland.

Macintosh, A., Smith, E. (2002). Citizen Participation in Public Affairs. In: Traunmuller, R., Lenk, K. (Eds.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , () ( ed.). (pp. 256-264). : . Springer-Verlag.

Smith, E., Macintosh, A., Whyte, A. (2002). Invisibility Vs Transparency. In: (Ed.) 16th British HCI Conference London, 2, () (2 ed.). (pp. 166-70). London, UK: . .