Wireless sensors network in urban living and health workshop

This is a report of the Wireless Sensors Network in Urban Living and Health Workshop, Thursday, 24 September 2015, London, United Kingdom

Scotland's Economic Strategy

Summarisation of the Scottish Government's economic strategy

Local Governemt ICT Strategy - Delivering Better Services for Communities

Summarisation of the strategy outlining planned reforms for ICT infrastructure

Technology Enabled Care Programme

Summarisation of technology-enabled care programme

Actor-network theory in the study of research and technology development in technology enhanced learning

This poster describes how a sociomaterial approach, Actor Network Theory (ANT), was used in an ethnographic case-study to investigate ongoing research and technology development practices at an interdisciplinary project between education and computer sciences. The study asked how a shared research question was being answered in practice when divergent research approaches were brought to bear upon it, and how an innovative piece of educational technology might emerge through the interdisciplinary R&D practices

Report on the knowledge exchange event at the University of Strathclyde

Knowledge Exchange Seminar at Strathclyde University on the10th March 2016 organised around our visit by Dr Matt-Mouley Bouamrane from the Computer and Information Sciences

Report on the engagement event at the University of West of Scotland

The DHI held a University engagement event at the University of West of Scotland on the 2nd Nov 2015. The event was hosted by the Business Development centre at the UWS

Canadian Journey to a National Electronic Health Record

Report detailing Canada's journey towards its national EHR. Canada has chosen to utilise hub-and-spoke repositories over point-to-point information exchange systems. Estonia's system is a decentralised point-to-point information exchange system, where each provider maintains its own database and shares elements of information as requested. The hub-andspoke repository systems collect and store copies of critical health information in jurisdictionally coordinated repositories, enabling the care giver to view and access consolidated, timely information easy via a computer. Similar approaches are used by Vista, Epic (Kaiser Permanente) and in UK. The nationwide approach to EHR aims to ensure that consistent standards are used in building EHR elements, thus enabling future interoperability within and across jurisdictions. A shared approach also guarantees that movement of knowledge and people across jurisdiction is simple, that platform quality nationwide is equal, and that cooperation between different parts of the system is possible in terms of systems design and vendor negotiations. All this will reduce long-term costs and implementation time by leveraging care and cross-jurisdictional knowledge. (Infoway 2015) The most unique element of the Canada's approach is the strategic investor role of Infoway adopted to administer the allocation of the federal investment funds. It also uses a collaborative, jointly funded, and shared governance model with members including the deputy ministers of health from across the country

The Estonian Journey to e-Governance

Report detailing Estonia's journey towards e-governance

Multiple enactments? An actor network theory approach to studying educational research practices

Actor Network Theory (ANT) is one of the more controversial approaches in social sciences. It arose in the early 1980s out of criticism towards the more traditional Sociology, which tended to disregard the role of the material and the natural in the constitution of ‘social reality’. In ANT terms, the social is not seen as the ‘glue’ holding society together, but as something made up of essentially non-social components (human, non-human, animate, inanimate entities) constituting networks of relations and being constituted by them. (Latour 2005, 4-5; Law 2007.) The main aim of ANT is to overcome the subjectobject divide, the distinction between the social and the natural worlds and to see the reality as enacted. Over the years the ANT approaches have developed into various directions in the hands of different thinkers and disciplines. The aim of the paper is to disentangle some of the conceptual messiness of ANT1 while considering the potential of applying a strand of the approach in my PhD study, which is linked to an interdisciplinary (Education and Computer Sciences) research and development project Ensemble2 . The project studies case based learning in a number of disciplines in Higher Education and the potential of semantic web applications for enhancing that learning. The PhD study focuses on following the research team as they work on studying cases in the discipline of Archaeology, and as they translate these findings into semantic web applications for the use by the disciplin