
Anne-Marie Oostveen has interests in the social implications of new and emerging technologies, privacy aspects in relation to ICT, online activism, user participation as a practical form for (computer) system design, and HCI.
Dr Anne-Marie Oostveen
Former Research Associate
Profile
Anne-Marie’s research focuses on the social implications of new and emerging technologies. She takes a problem-oriented view to focus on the interaction between technological development and social change, and has been involved in both the design of technology and studying its use. She adopts a participatory approach in which technology is designed and implemented not only for the users, but also with their involvement. In previous research, she conducted qualitative and quantitative studies on the implications of large-scale, complex systems (e.g. for public services provision, for e-voting, for automated border crossing). In this context she studied the needs, values, beliefs, attitudes and behaviours of various social groups and stakeholders involved in the use of these new technologies. Anne-Marie is also interested in exploring what the motivations and social trends are behind new ICT innovations and whether lay people can meaningfully engage in discussions about emerging technologies and the changes they bring to everyday life. Whose beliefs, values, and morality do these technologies mirror, and how can a balanced societal debate be created, leading to a social responsible use of ICTs? More recent work has focused on surveillance technologies such as child tracking technology and biometrics, and on digital inequality issues related to inadequate broadband access in rural Britain.
Anne-Marie’s work has been supported by a range of funders including the European Commission, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), and Oxford’s Fell Fund. She held a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship exploring e-democracy technologies and the problem of public trust (2007-2009). She has published academic articles, reports, conference papers, and magazine articles. An up-to-date list can be found here: http://www.social-informatics.net/publications.htm.
Currently, Anne-Marie is Principal Investigator on the FastPass project and the Access Denied project. The FastPass project establishes and demonstrates a harmonized, modular approach for Automated Border Control (ABC) gates. Border control is a major challenge for security and mobility within the EU. Travellers request a minimum delay and a speedy border crossing, while Border Guards must fulfil their obligation to secure the EUs borders against illegal immigration and other threats. The Access Denied project focuses on how people living and working in rural areas are affected by the unavailability of (adequate) Internet connections.
Anne-Marie studied Cultural Anthropology (MA) and Social Informatics (PhD) at the University of Amsterdam. Prior to joining the Oxford Internet Institute in 2007 Anne-Marie held research positions at the Social Informatics Department at the University of Amsterdam, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in Amsterdam, and the Rathenau Institute in The Hague. Anne-Marie is also co-founder and board member of the Dutch ‘Wij vertrouwen stemcomputers niet‘ (We don’t trust e-voting computers) foundation.
For more details see Anne-Marie’s home page.
Areas of Interest for Doctoral Supervision
Activism, democracy, digital divides, ethics, government, human-computer interaction, inequality, innovation, political participation, privacy, public policy, security, surveillance, trust
Research interests
social informatics, privacy, online activism, trust, electronic voting, e-democracy, e-government, user participation
Positions held at the OII
- Research Associate, August 2017 – November 2019
- Research Fellow, June 2013 – July 2017
- Researcher, August 2012 – June 2013
- Research Officer, January – August 2012
- Research Fellow, April 2009 – December 2011
- Marie Curie Research Fellow, April 2007 – April 2009
Students supervised at the OII
Past students
Research
Past projects
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FastPass: A Harmonized, Modular Reference System for all European Automatic Border Crossing Points
Participants: Dr Anne-Marie Oostveen, Professor Ian Brown
Border control is a major challenge for security and mobility within the EU. FastPass will establish and demonstrate a harmonized, modular approach for Automated Border Control (ABC) gates.
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EINS: Network of Excellence in Internet Science
Participants: Dr Anne-Marie Oostveen, Professor Ian Brown, Dr Cristobal Cobo, Dr Monica Bulger, Ben Zevenbergen
EINS aims to strengthen scientific and technological excellence by developing an integrated and interdisciplinary scientific understanding of Internet networks and their co-evolution with society.
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Access Denied: A Qualitative Study of Inadequate Broadband Access in Rural Britain
Participants: Dr Anne-Marie Oostveen, Dr Bianca Reisdorf
By using interviews and focus groups this project will focus on how people living and working in rural areas are affected by the unavailability of adequate Internet connections.
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IMSK: Integrated Mobile Security Kit
Participants: Dr Anne-Marie Oostveen, Professor Ian Brown, Dr Joss Wright
IMSK integrates information from legacy and novel sensor technologies into common operational picture where information is fused into intelligence, in a mobile system suitable for rapid deployment at venues which temporarily need enhanced security.
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SESERV Consortium: Socio-Economic Services for European Research Projects
Participants: Dr Anne-Marie Oostveen, Professor Eric T. Meyer, Dr Cristobal Cobo
The SESERV consortium aims to maximize research impact by raising awareness of socio-economic trends in the areas of incentives, accounting, Digital Europe, and risk management, and by addressing possible policy priorities within the research community.
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Privacy Value Networks (PVNets)
Participants: Dr Anne-Marie Oostveen, Professor Ian Brown, Dr Fadhila Haeri Mazanderani, Dr Chrysanthi Papoutsi, Dr Fehmi Ben Abdesslem, Dave Birch, Dr Sacha Brostoff, Dr Tristan Henderson, David Houghton, Dr Adam Joinson, Miguel Malheiros, Iain Parris, Professor Angela Sasse, Dr Asimina Vasalou
Privacy Value Networks (PVNets) is producing an empirical base for developing concepts of privacy across contexts and timeframes, addressing a current lack of clarity of what privacy is and what it means to stakeholders in different usage scenarios.
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eTRUST: e-democracy technologies and the problem of public trust
Participants: Dr Anne-Marie Oostveen
Does e-democracy increase trust in government, and, if so, under what conditions? This work is based on case studies (involving observation / interviewing) of local and national e-democracy initiatives selected from England and the Netherlands.
Conference papers
- (2014) "Non-use of Automated Border Control Systems: Identifying Reasons and Solutions", 28th British Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2014). Snd, Sea and Sky - Holiday HCI. Proceedings of the 28th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2014), 9 – 12 September 2014. BCS Learning & Development.
Journal articles
- (2015) "Understanding engagement with the privacy domain through design research", Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 66 (6) 1263-1273.
- (2014) "Child Location Tracking in the US and the UK: Same Technology, Different Social Implications", Surveillance and Society. 12 (4) 581-593.
- (2010) "Outsourcing Democracy: Losing Control of e-Voting in the Netherlands", Policy & Internet. 2 (4) 196-215.
Reports
- (2015) Socio-ethical, legal, political, and privacy aspects (Version 2). FastPass Deliverable 2.5. FastPass - A harmonized, modular reference system for all European automated border crossing points. FP7-SEC-2012-1..
- (2015) Concept for usability, acceptance and privacy (Version 2). FastPass Deliverable 2.4. FastPass - A harmonized, modular reference system for all European automated border crossing points. FP7-SEC-2012-1.
- (2014) System requirements and evaluation/success criteria. FastPass Deliverable 3.2. A harmonized, modular reference system for all European automated border crossing points. FP7-SEC-2012-1..
- (2014) Socio-ethical, legal, political, and privacy aspects (Version 1). FastPass Deliverable 2.3. FastPass - A harmonized, modular reference system for all European automated border crossing points. FP7-SEC-2012-1..
- (2014) Concept for usability, acceptance and privacy (Version 1). FastPass Deliverable 2.2. FastPass - A harmonized, modular reference system for all European automated border crossing points. FP7-SEC-2012-1..
- (2013) Establishment of user groups. FastPass Deliverable 2.1. FastPass - A harmonized, modular reference system for all European automated border crossing points, FP7-SEC-2012-1..
- (2013) Stakeholder needs specification. FastPass Deliverable 3.1. A harmonized, modular reference system for all European automated border crossing points, FP7-SEC-2012-1..
- (2012) Final Report on Social Future Internet Coordination Activities. SESERV Deliverable D3.2, Socio-Economic Services for European Research Projects FP7-2010-ICT-258138-CSA..
- (2012) Methodology for SESERV Year 2 Coordination Activities. SESERV Deliverable D1.5, Socio-Economic Services for European Research Projects FP7-2010-ICT-258138-CSA..
- (2011) Initial SESERV Survey Results, Challenge 1 Projects: Socio-Economic Priorities. Report for the SESERV project..
- (2011) Weight loss bloggers' disclosure case - survey results. Privacy Value Networks (PVN) Deliverable 1.17. Work Package 1.7 'Online self-disclosure and self-presentation'. TP/12/NS/P0502A.
- (2011) First Year Report on Scientific Workshop. SESERV Deliverable D1.2, Socio-Economic Services for European Research Projects FP7-2010-ICT-258138-CSA..
- (2011) First Report on Social Future Internet Coordination Activities. SESERV Deliverable D3.1, Socio-Economic Services for European Research Projects FP7-2010-ICT-258138-CSA..
- (2010) Student online disclosure case - survey results. Privacy Value Networks (PVN) Deliverable 1.16. Work Package 1.6 'Online self-disclosure and self-presentation'. TP/12/NS/P0502A..
- (2007) "Evaluation of Research in Context. A Quick Scan of an Emerging Field. Joint report by the Department of Science System Assessment, Rathenau Institute and the ERiC project." In: Evaluation of research in context: a quick scan of an emerging field. Joint report by the Department of Science System Assessment, Rathenau Institute and the ERiC project. Evaluating Research in Context.
- (2007) Research Assessment: Methods, Goals and Consequences. Report for the Science System Assessment Department, Rathenau Institute.
- (2004) Indicators of intermediaries' role and development. Deliverable to the European Commission. EICSTES IST-1999-20350..
- (2004) Web and non-web based indicators of the new knowledge-based economy. Deliverable to the European Commission. EICSTES IST-1999-20350.
- (2003) Users, usability and effects. TruE-Vote Deliverable D7.2, TRUE-VOTE IST-2000-29424..
- (2003) Poll Results: organization, results and evaluation. TruE-Vote Deliverable 6, TRUE-VOTE IST -2000-29424..
- (2002) User requirements for the TruE-Vote voting protocol. TruE-Vote Deliverable D2.1b, TRUE-VOTE IST-2000-29424.
- (2002) Internet Based Voting: A Detailed Survey of the State of the Art. TruE-Vote Deliverable D2.1a, TRUE-VOTE IST-2000-29424.
- (2002) Guide for the internet polls. Deliverable D5.0, TRUE-VOTE IST-2000-29424.
- (2001) Case studies in smart card projects. Fasme-Deliverable D3.2, FASME IST-1999-10882.
- (2001) Large scale smart card infrastructures: social issues and user involvement. Fasme-Deliverable D3.1, FASME IST-1999-10882.
- (2001) Final Report On The Prototype Of The Complete JavaCard Middleware. Fasme-Deliverable D5.1, FASME IST-1999-10882.
- (2001) Acceptance Report concerning the organizational implementation of the systems. Fasme-Deliverable D8.1, FASME IST-1999-10882.
- (2001) Adaptation to User Needs. Fasme-Deliverable D4.2., FASME IST-1999-10882.
- (2000) Codification and self-organization of the European STI system. SOEIS-Deliverable D2.5, TSER-SOE1-CT97-1060-D2.5.
- (2000) Reader for the Expert Meeting on Experimental Innovation Policy. Amsterdam, 22-24 January, 2000. SOEIS-Deliverable D3.2, TSER-SOE1-CT97-1060-D3.2.
Teaching
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Internet Technologies and Regulation
Exploring the interplay between social and technological shaping of the Internet, and associated policy implications. It outlines the Internet's origins and technical architecture and its embeddedness in a long history of communication technologies.
Videos
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CPDP 2015: Assessing the Societal Impact of Automated Border Control Gates
Recorded: 23 February 2015
Duration: 01:16:22
This panel brings together diverse perspectives on the role of societal impact assessment in the design of automated border control (ABC) systems.
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Can e-Voting Increase Electoral Participation? Experiences and Policy Issues [100MB download]
Recorded: 17 March 2011
Duration: 00:16:06
Anne-Marie Oostveen was an invited speaker at the workshop "Experiences and policy issues of e-voting and their implications for future elections of the European Parliament" for the Science Technology Options Assessment Panel (STOA). European Parliament.
Events
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The Future Internet: The Social Nature of Technical Choices
28 June 2011
This workshop will discuss how technology developments are encountering socio-economic realities. Particular attention will be given to approaches that facilitate the creation of multidisciplinary networks of collaboration and knowledge exchange.
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Undergraduate Lecture Series (H3): The Value of Privacy in Flows of Information
31 January 2011
New technologies make it easy to gather and process personal data and this has directly affected the value, function and feasibility of privacy. What is privacy and why is it important? Is the death of privacy inevitable?
Blog
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Protected: PGP/GPG Survey Results
29 September 2016
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
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Telecommunications Policy Research Conference 2016, USA.
8 August 2016
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
On Saturday the 1st of October 2016 we will take part in the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC) panel ‘Rural Broadband Policies in a ...
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CPDP2016: Panel on Technologies for Border Control
7 January 2016
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
This year I organise together with Diana Dimitrova, a legal researcher from the KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law, a panel at the Computer, Privacy ...
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Notes from the Jungle in Calais
14 December 2015
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
Apologies for this non-academic blog-post, but I wanted to thank all of my amazing colleagues, friends, and neighbours for helping out the refugees in ...
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Assessing the need to make e-gates accessible to people with disabilities
5 December 2015
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
There are 80 million citizens with disabilities in Europe (EDF, 2014). The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that the number of persons with a ...
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Iris scanners can now identify us from 40 feet away, but we don’t have to accept it
21 May 2015
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
Anne-Marie Oostveen, University of Oxford and Diana Dimitrova, Katholiek Universiteit of Leuven Biometric technologies are on the rise. By electronically recording data about individual’s ...
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Amsterdam Privacy Conference 2015
1 May 2015
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
Today I received the good news that the Scientific Committee of the Amsterdam Privacy Conference 2015 has accepted our panel ‘Privacy, Data Protection, and ...
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Fieldwork in North-Wales
17 April 2015
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
Last month we had a very productive week in North-Wales, talking to a variety of people who all struggled with slow and unreliable Internet ...
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CfP: Identification and Surveillance for Border Control Workshop, ISBC2015
16 April 2015
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
ISBC 2015 is the 1st international workshop on Identification and Surveillance for Border Control and will take place at Karlsruhe (Germany) on August 25th. ...
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North-Wales, here we come!
26 February 2015
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
Only 2 more weeks until we will start our fieldwork in North-Wales. We are very excited about interviewing people in rural communities in Gwynedd. At the ...
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New Publication: Why Electronic Voting?
3 December 2014
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
This week my EINS colleagues Marco Prandini and Laura Sartori from the University of Bologna will be in Hong Kong to present our paper ...
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A visit to Korea: the country with the fastest internet in the world
30 November 2014
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
As part of our study, we discuss our findings in academic forums and at international conferences, such as the Association of Internet Researchers‘ (AoIR) yearly ...
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So, …
29 November 2014
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
Qualitative research not only allows you an in-depth exploration of what other people think, feel or do (and why), it also makes you aware ...
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New Publication: Child Location Tracking in the US and the UK
24 November 2014
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
Mina Vasalou, Peter van den Besselaar, Ian Brown and I have a new paper out in Surveillance & Society (an international, interdisciplinary, open access, ...
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News Digest Rural Broadband: October 2014
1 November 2014
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
This month saw a lot of reporting on inadequate internet speeds in rural communities throughout Great Britain. But the news items also show that ...
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UK coverage of superfast broadband highest of “five biggest European economies”?
4 September 2014
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
In a recent article, the BBC commented on the developments of broadband connectivity in the UK. According to the government, more than 1 million ...
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News Digest Rural Broadband: August 2014
31 August 2014
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
It has been a slow month for news on slow internet connections. But we have still managed to collect a few articles related to ...
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New Publication: Non-use of Automated Border Control systems
13 August 2014
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
In September I will have the opportunity to present a short paper about the non-use of Automated Border Control (ABC) systems at the British ...
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News Digest Rural Broadband: July 2014
31 July 2014
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
Another month has gone by with again lots of media attention for slow Internet connections in rural areas. This time the news brings us: ...
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Fieldwork in B4RN land
12 July 2014
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
On the 9th and 10th of July we travelled up North to meet the people of B4RN, a community-owned fibre network in Lancashire providing ...
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News Digest Rural Broadband: June 2014
29 June 2014
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
Here it is… June’s overview of all the need-to-know news on inadequate internet connections in rural England and Wales. Featuring this month: sluggish speeds, rural broadband nightmares, and balloons ...
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Progress Bar Blues
20 June 2014
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
Internet users living and working in areas with slow Internet speeds are per definition overly familiar with the ‘progress bar’. Wikipedia describes the progress ...
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News Digest Rural Broadband: May 2014
30 May 2014
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
Keeping abreast of developments related to rural broadband is difficult when you are suffering from slow Internet access. Therefore we do all the hard ...
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Inadequate Broadband Access in Rural Britain
19 May 2014
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
Welcome to the ‘Access Denied’ project. Whether you are a rural Internet user, an Internet service provider or a policy maker, our research is ...
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New Publication: ABC standardisation key to improving usability
3 May 2014
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
This summer my colleague Mario Kaufmann from the Fraunhofer Institute will present a paper [1] based on our FastPass work at the Interfaces and ...
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New Publication: Understanding Engagement With The Privacy Domain Through Design Research
11 March 2014
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
Within the Google funded project ‘Privacy Trends’ a tool was developed that collects and aggregates online reports from social media platforms on the topic ...
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Crowdfunding to Support Young Researchers
17 December 2013
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
My colleague Kathryn Eccles studies crowdsourcing in the field of cultural heritage resources, and the topic often comes up in our conversations. Usually we ...
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Social Media on the Motorway
14 December 2013
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
In the 1990s the internet was often described as the ‘Information Highway’. Two decades on, the information highway has started to interfere with the ...
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The Great Switch-Over
29 July 2013
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
Among my friends it is known that I am not one for big changes. I like to keep things the way they are (not ...
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Research in Practice: Observations and Surveys
17 June 2013
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
In between my three “extreme interviewing Mondays” I have been to a European airport to conduct research for the FastPass project. The FastPass project ...
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Research in Practice: Extreme Interviewing
3 June 2013
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
Together with colleagues from the University of Birmingham (Human-Computer Interaction Research Centre, Computer Science Department) and the University of Sheffield (Natural Language Processing Research ...
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Call for Papers: Social and Ethical Implications of Biometric Technology (IJICTHD)
30 May 2013
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
SUBMISSION DUE DATE: November 1, 2013 SPECIAL ISSUE ON: Social and Ethical Implications of Biometric Technology International Journal of Information Communication Technologies and Human ...
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Don’t miss MuseumNext
12 May 2013
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
If you are in Amsterdam this week, don’t miss MuseumNext at the Beurs van Berlage. MuseumNext is Europe’s big conference on innovation and technology ...
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New book chapter: User Involvement in Future Internet Projects
24 April 2013
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
We have a chapter in the FIA 2013 book to be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) next month [1]. In ...
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Dagstuhl Seminar on Insider Threats
14 December 2012
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
This week I attended a Dagstuhl Seminar on Organizational Processes for Supporting Sustainable Security. This seminar at Schloss Dagstuhl was the third in a series ...
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Electoral participation, e-voting and windscreen wipers.
26 March 2011
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
Last week I gave a statement about remote electronic voting at the European Parliament. The Scientific Technology Options Assessment (STOA) workshop, organised by the ...
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Internet & Politics
9 March 2009
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) has recently accepted the proposal of a standing group on “Internet & Politics”. This standing group aims ...
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Call for Papers
13 November 2008
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
If you are you doing interesting research on eGovernment issues you might want to consider submitting a paper to the International Journal of Electronic ...
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Internet for Farmers
6 November 2008
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
I live in a small hamlet north of Oxford where there are no visible blemishes on the God-kissed landscape. The rolling hills, the chocolate ...
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More RFID vulnerabilities
8 April 2008
Author: Anne-marie Oostveen
Students from the Radboud University in the Netherlands and the Lausitz University of Applied Sciences in Germany have shown more vulnerabilities with RFID technology. ...
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Press
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Broadband in the backwaters: rural Britain’s fight for faster internet
1 September 2016 Ingenia Online
Superfast broadband is non-existent in some parts of rural Britain and the situation may not change soon. According to the OII's Anne-Marie Oostveen reasons for slow rural broadband include connection speeds, latency, contention ratios and reliability.
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Current alternatives won’t light up Britain’s broadband blackspots
19 August 2015 The Conversation
Dr Anne-Marie Oostveen and Dr Bianca Reisdorf discuss issues with UK broadband and how some still experience poor internet connections.
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Smart technology: Here’s looking at you
26 June 2015 NZ Herald
The New Zealand Herald reports Anne Marie Oostveen's work on facial recognition and the anxieties it arouses in the public. People are right to be worried she says.
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Facial recognition technology: Is Orwell’s fiction our reality?
23 June 2015 The Telegraph
As sophisticated methods of facial recognition are developed, Anne-Marie Oostveen,says that people are very uncomfortable with the idea of it being used without their consent. They are 'right to be worried' she says.
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Iris scanners can identify you in Reflections
25 May 2015 Mail Online
The MailOnline reprints the article by Anne-Marie Oostveen and Diana Dimitrova first published in The Conversation which discussed their research on the issues surrounding the use of iris recognition to strengthen security.
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Iris scanners can now identify us from 40 feet away
21 May 2015 The Conversation
Anne-Marie Oostveen and Diana Dimitrova write about increasing and more effective methods of iris scanning. These raise serious legal challenges and provoke public anxiety
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A promised ‘right’ to fast internet rings hollow for millions stuck with 20th-century speeds
24 March 2015 The Conversation
The plight of rural dwellers with poor internet connection speeds is highlighted by Anne-Marie Oostveen and Bibi Reisdorf who interviewed people living in the country as part of their study of rural broadband access.
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Outside the cities and towns, rural Britain’s internet is firmly stuck in the 20th century
20 October 2014 The Conversation
Anne-Marie Oostveen and Bianca Reisdorf discuss their research into the poor quality of rural internet access in the UK. The main problem, they say, is the cost of installing the necessary infrastructure.
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Chips off the old block
12 January 2013 The Economist
An increasing range of child-tracking devices designed to protect children are being offered to parents. But Anne-Marie Oostveen points out that accidents are more likely than assault and these devices won’t stop a child falling in a river.
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Paper Cuts: Paperless polling stations are unfashionable, but internet voting is on its way
27 October 2012 The Economist
Enthusiasm for electronic voting machines is waning although they are still useful in poorer places. Internet voting however is becoming more widespread. Anne-Marie-Oostveen comments on difficulties of verifying electronic tallies.
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French election leaves thousands of expats unable to vote
15 June 2012 Exaro News
The introduction of online voting for the French communities outside France has 'been a fiasco' beset by computer and administrative faults according to Exaro. Anne-Marie Oostveen, expert on electronic voting comments on the risks of fraud.