Events

• Wednesday 16 May 2012 12:30 - 13:45

  Essentially Digital Governance in Austerity: 'NPM Rising from the Dead' or a New Quasi-Paradigm for Public Management Reform?

  Speakers: Professor Helen Margetts

  This workshop series aims to explore how far managerial or IT changes or any combination of the two, have actually delivered hoped-for productivity increases in the past and to explore the potential for them to do so in the future.

• Monday 21 May 2012 11:00 - 15:00

  The Converged World of the Internet in a Connected Digital Economy

  Speakers: Professor William H. Dutton

  This workshop will explore strategies for building the strongest possible focus for collaboration on the Connected Digital Economy Catapult (CDEC).

• Monday 21 May 2012 14:00 - 15:30

  The Role of Digital Humanities in a Major Natural Disaster

  Speakers: Dr Paul Millar

  In this talk, Paul Millar discusses the role of digital humanities in developing a resource to preserve the digital record of major natural disasters.

• Wednesday 23 May 2012 12:30 - 13:45

  Studying the Productivity of Unique Central Government Departments: How to Achieve Sustainable Improvements

  Speakers: Professor Patrick Dunleavy

  This workshop series aims to explore how far managerial or IT changes or any combination of the two, have actually delivered hoped-for productivity increases in the past and to explore the potential for them to do so in the future.

• Tuesday 29 May 2012 09:30 - 16:30

  Blurring the Boundaries: New Social Media, New Social Science?

  Speakers: Dr Grant Blank and Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon

  This conference explores whether social science researchers should embrace social media, and the likely impact on their methods and practices.

• Wednesday 30 May 2012 12:30 - 13:45

  Kaleidoscope in Red and Black: The 1994-97 Program Review in Canada

  Speakers: Professor Donald Savoie

  This workshop series aims to explore how far managerial or IT changes or any combination of the two, have actually delivered hoped-for productivity increases in the past and to explore the potential for them to do so in the future.

• Friday 15 June 2012 10:30 - 11:30

  Policy for the Digital Era: The Communications Green Paper

  Speakers: Ed Vaizey

  Ed Vaizey, MP, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries will speak about the implications of the forthcoming Communications Green Paper.

• Wednesday 20 June 2012 09:00 - 17:00

  Socio-Economic Certainties and Change for the Future Internet

  The SESERV research team have been working to show how socio-economic analysis is an added-value to their everyday work and investigation. To continue this important message, the project will host a workshop in June.

• Thursday 12 - Friday 13 July 2012

  OII SDP Alumni Conference

  This mini-conference celebrates ten years of the OII's Summer Doctoral Programme. Comprising a one-day mini-conference with reception and dinner, this is a great opportunity for SDP alumni to reunite, present their research, and relive the SDP experience.

• Thursday 20 - Friday 21 September 2012

  Internet, Politics, Policy 2012: Big Data, Big Challenges? (IPP2012)

  Speakers: Dr Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon and Professor Helen Margetts

  Reprising the very successful 'IPP2010', this conference organised by the journal Policy and Internet subjects the relationship between the Internet, Politics and Policy to multi-disciplinary scrutiny, focusing this time on the challenges of 'Big Data'.

Last updated on: 16 May 2012