Building integrity for accountability in public information systems: Research from Africa and South Asia

Michael Hoyle, currently Project Manager and Lead Researcher at the International Records Management Trust. This is a London-based NGO which concerns itself with helping developing countries establish electronic records-keeping tools and wrestling with the obstacles that are related to this endeavor.

Growing a CyberSecurity Research Program within the Department of Energy

A late post from the week before. Also, I missed this last week’s conversation – apologies.

Deborah Finkle shared about the cyber security research program in the DOE here in Washington – how it is to run a research lab funded by the government and directed by their security concerns.

Public access to information and ICTs in different countries.

Rucha Ambikarare and Rebecca Sears from the Center for Information & Society are exploring the information needs in different countries. They report on the challenges of working with multiple research teams stationed globally and their initial findings.