The document summarizes an event hosted by the Centre for Social Informatics at Napier University. The Centre focuses on research areas like distributed computing, emergent computing, information and software systems, interaction design, and social informatics. Its work includes research funded by research councils and Europe in addition to contract and consultancy work evaluating sociotechnical projects and conducting market research. The event is the fifth open data meetup in Edinburgh and will be hosted by Peter Cruickshank and Hazel Hall from the Centre.
2. Welcome to OKFN Edinburgh meet-up 5
#OpenDataEDB
#OKFN
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3. Tonight’s event hosted by Centre for Social Informatics
Peter Cruickshank Hazel Hall
p.cruickshank@napier.ac.uk h.hall@napier.ac.uk
@spartakan @hazelh
http://spartakan.wordpress.com/ http://hazelhall.org
http://about.me/spartakan http://about.me/hazelh
0131 455 2309 0131 455 2760
The Centre for Social Informatics is a
Research Centre within the Institute for
Informatics and Digital Innovation
http://www.iidi.napier.ac.uk/c/main/site/csi
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4. Work of the Centre for Social Informatics
One of five research centre within Institute Research – research councils, Europe
Distributed Computing, Networking & Security Information Society
Emergent Computing Library and Information Science
Smart Cities
Information & Software Systems
E-participation
Interaction Design
E-governance
Social Informatics …
Research: contract, consultancy, “other” CPD
Sociotechnical project evaluation Social media strategies with focus on knowledge
Knowledge Management management, risk management and engagement
Project Management strategies
Online communities Knowledge Management
Social computing Library and information science research
Market research …
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