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'I left the LSE feeling strangely elated. The evening was clearly meant to show that freedoms are being whittled away by a sinister panoply of state and private bodies. But what it actually showed was that the doughty tradition of British dissent - the intellectual stubbornness perfectly embodied by Orwell himself - is alive and well and refreshingly noisy.'

…and there are two pieces by Stephen Robinson in the Daily Telegraph (an award winner) on 5 March: Telegraph honoured by civil rights champions and 8 March: A free country

  • The paper Cities in the Developing World: linking global and local networks, written by Shirin Madon, PhD with Sundeep Sahay of the University of Oslo, has been selected as the most outstanding paper published in Information Technology & People in 2001. The paper examines two Bangalore networks that typify global and local duality: the network of software firms located in high technology enclaves in and around the city, and the ostracised network of the slum dwellers of Bangalore, gradually being brought into mainstream discussions of governance in the city
  • The recent launch of the Moving Markets project was reported on Reuters Online on 21 February. They wrote:

'Academics and the securities industry have teamed up to study the role clearing and settlement of stocks and bonds will have on reconfiguring Europe's splintered finance industry as market users clamour for cheaper cross-border trading. "There is an enormous amount of change in the industry and a need to understand some of the impasses and controversies regarding boundaries when you have a global industry like this," said Dr Susan Scott, a lecturer at the information systems department at the London School of Economics. The London School of Economics is leading the Moving Markets study sponsored by the London Clearing House, international settlement house Euroclear, IT services group Cap Gemini and oil giant Shell.'

  • Simon Davies, Gus Hosein and Edgar Whitley, PhD will be judges for the 2002 UK Big Brother Awards. The award ceremony is being hosted by the Information Systems Group. From 150 nominees, the shortlist for awards includes the Countryside Alliance, David Blunkett and Norwich Union

  • The department's ICoSS project, which explores the application of the principles of complexity in practice, part of the Complexity Programme, has a fifth business partner. Mondragon Cooperative Corporation, based in the Basque country in Spain, joins BT Brightstar, Norwich Union Life, Rolls Royce Marine and Shell Internet Works

  • Jonathan Liebenau, PhD will head the panel on Technology in the Global Economy at Columbia Business School's Annual Technology and Digital Media Conference, techXchange, on 22 February. The panel will include Georges Ugeux, Vice President of the New York Stock Exchange, Doug McCormick, CEO of iVillage, Ali Hantal, President of MeZun.com, and Doug Doulter of IFC/ Softbank

  • Edgar Whitley, PhD has been appointed co-editor of Information Technology & People. ITP is a leading publication providing a communication medium for academics and practitioners concerned with social and organisational issues in the design and use of information technology

  • Chrisanthi Avgerou, PhD's new book Information Systems and Global Diversity has just been published by Oxford University Press (OUP). It discusses the nature of organisational diversity in which information and communication technology (ICT) innovation takes place, and develops a conceptual approach to account for it. The book draws from institutionalist concepts of organisations, the sociology of technology, current debates on globalisation, and critiques of the rationality of modernity. The theoretical perspective is supported empirically by four international case studies. It shows how the processes of ICT innovation and organisational change reflect local aspirations, concerns, and action, as well as the multiple institutional influences of globalisation

  • Steve Smithson, PhD and a team of PhD students (Saskia Meulemans, Prodromos Tsiavos, Harry Mann, Catherine Chu, Frederick Wamala and Daniel Pica) have been commissioned by British Telecom (BT) to examine the broadband rollout in the UK, US, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Japan and Korea. The study is concerned with gaining an understanding of the dynamics of broadband development, especially the current situation concerning coverage and take-up, as well as drivers and inhibitors, in various countries. Issues such as regulation, pricing policies, technology-related issues, socio-economic, and environmental and cultural factors will be examined on a country by country basis along with an overall commentary on the findings

  • Shirin Madon, PhD has received a research grant to investigate e-governance for development from the Nuffield Social Science Small Grant Scheme. The principle objective of the research is to carry out a sociological, comparative study of a selection of ongoing e-governance initiatives in India

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  • Mike Cushman gave an invited lecture at Kingston Business School on Using the Strategic Choice Approach: reorganising children’s health services on 12 December 2001

  • Professor Bob Galliers, PhD and Carsten Sørensen, PhD represented LSE on 14 December at an invited one-day workshop on Information Technology and the Codification of Knowledge at the IKON research centre at Warwick Business School 

  • Carsten Sørensen, PhD has been giving a series of invited presentations in Scandinavia. In October he visited the IT-University in Copenhagen to hold a workshop on the Management of Knowledge and Interaction. In November he visited the newly established IT-University in Gothenburg to lecture on the Design of Mobile Services. In December he lectured on Theoretical Conceptualisations of What We Use Software For at Umeå University in Sweden 

  • Simon Davies has been invited by UNESCO to participate in its high-level consultation meeting on the international collaboration on IT research, taking place at Leicester University in early December 2001. He has also been brought onto the European Commissions Expert Group of Cybercrime and Data Retention, and was invited to present a keynote address to the Commission's plenary meeting on cybercrime and security in Brussels at the end of November 2001 

  • Professor Bob Galliers, PhD has been invited to become a member of the Board of International Advisers of Jonkoping International Business School, Jonkoping University, for the period 1 January 2002 - 31 December 2004 

  • On 12 October Carsten Sørensen, PhD hosted the visit of a group of 23 MSc students in informatics from Aarhus University in Denmark. After a tour of the new library, they heard about the ADMIS and PhD programmes with presentations from PhD students Masao Kakihara, Maha Shaikh and Frederick Wamala  

  • Jonathan Liebenau, PhD recently organised a conference, sponsored by the LSE Computer Security Research Centre and Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (part of Columbia Business School), on the impact of September 11 on financial communications and information systems (see Columbia News Video Forum). The conference examined the corporate and infrastructural response in the wake of the IRA bombing of the London financial district on 10 April 1992 and the recent September 11 attacks. The conference brought together those who have studied these two disasters from the point of view of business preparedness, infrastructure capability, damage and recovery 

  • Professor Bob Galliers, PhD will be leading a session at the first UKAIS Research Roadshow, Behind the Scenes in IS Research, at the University of Bath on 29 November 2001. Email mnspp@management.bath.ac.uk for more details 

  • Simon Davies took part in a live debate over global security on CNN's Insight programme on 19 October. He was pitted head-to head with one of America's most prominent lawyers, Professor Alan Dershowitz. This followed interviews by Ted Koppel on ABC's Nightline (on the subject of police procedures), on the CBS programme 48 Hours (on CCTV), and on more than a half a dozen prime-time national network programmes such as NBC's Today show and the ABC and CBS evening news 

  • Chrisanthi Avgerou, PhD has received the Information Technology & People outstanding paper award for her paper ‘IT and organizational change: an institutionalist perspective’, which appeared in volume 13 issue 4. The award, under the MCB University Press Awards for Excellence scheme, is for the paper which best met the editorial and readership objectives of the journal 

  • Shirin Madon, PhD has received a 2001 Literati Club highly commended award for her paper ‘The internet and socio-economic development: exploring the interaction’ in Information Technology & People. These awards are for the best papers in any of MCB University Press's 140 journals 

  • An article by Simon Davies entitled Reckless ID card plan will destroy nation's freedom appeared in the Daily Telegraph on 29 September 

  • Professor Claudio Ciborra has secured one of three PricewaterhouseCoopers research awards made to LSE. The £55,000 sum will fund a project on the duality of risk in data and infrastructure integration. A research group is currently being organised to carry out case studies and related international collaboration 

  • Nathalie Mitev, PhD has been awarded a visitorship for six months at the School of Management, Aarhus University, Denmark, from September 2001 to March 2002. Her work will focus on the study of organisations and technological innovation 

  • Three research officers have joined the department to work on new Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)-funded projects. Will Venters will be working on the C-SanD project (Creating, Sustaining and Disseminating Knowledge for Sustainable Construction: tools, methods and architecture). Lucia Garcia and Maria Simosi will be working on the Complexity Programme's ICoSS project (Integration of Complex Social Systems). Both these projects have major involvement with industry leaders from Rolls Royce, BT and Shell to Taylor Woodrow, WS Atkins and Davis Langdon Everest 

  • Jannis Kallinikos, PhD has joined the department as a lecturer. He was previously at Athens University of Economics and Business and is the author of The Age of Flexibility: managing organizations and technology. His research interests include information and communication technologies and emerging organisation forms, and technology and social structure 

  • Professor Bob Galliers, PhD, Edgar Whitley, PhD, Carsten Sørensen, PhD, Professor Frank Land and Mike Cushman will present papers and participate in panel discussions at this year’s IFIP WG8.2 Conference 2001, Boise, Idaho, USA, July 27- 29, on Realigning Research and Practice in IS Development: the social and organisational perspective 

  • Professor Claudio Ciborra, Carsten Sørensen, PhD, Masao Kakihara and Paolo Canonicolli all present papers at the 24th Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia (IRIS'24), Ulvik in Hardanger, Norway, August 11-14 on Knowledge Systems. IRIS in one of the longest standing information systems conferences 

  • Eve Mitleton-Kelly has been appointed coordinator of working party one of the EU Information Societies Technology Programme, Network of Excellence on Complex Systems. LSE is one of the programme partners 

  • Robert Willison, a doctoral student, has been appointed vice-chair of IFIP Working Group 9.6/11.7: IT Misuse and the Law. It is unusual, if not unique, for a doctoral student to be appointed as an officer of an IFIP working group 

  • Professor Bob Galliers, PhD has been invited to give a keynote speech to the inaugural conference of the Association of Electronic Commerce in Portugal in Oeiras, Portugal in October 2001 

  • Ellen Enkel, project leader of the University of St. Gallen KnowledgeSource and the Competence Center Knowledge Networks for Growth, will be a research visitor at the department from August to December 2001. She will be working on aspects of knowledge networks 

  • Susan V Scott, PhD recently held a successful workshop at LSE on the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in changing the way we organise our work practices across time and space. Guest speaker Professor Barbara Adam (Cardiff School of Social Science) presented aspects of her research on time and social theory. Adam's work was explored in two further presentations. The first considered the consequences of a competitive landslide to electronic trading in the financial futures market. The second discussed the complexities of organising virtual communities in Asia. The event was a first step in establishing a research agenda on how information and communication technologies have become entangled in changing perceptions of time-space 

  • Peter Sommer provided the policy analysis for the intermediate evaluation of the European Commission's Safer Internet Action Plan (IAP). The plan provides financial and research support for such activities as hotlines, web content rating, internet filtering and educational and awareness schemes. The purpose of the intermediate evaluation, carried out by commercial firm BDRC and Peter Sommer for Enterprise LSE, was to see how well the Commission's funds had been dispensed and to provide guidelines for the future. Peter Sommer will also be attending the Home Office, ICF and IWF-sponsored Expert Workshop on Protecting the Online Generation on 6 July 

  • Professor Bob Galliers is to be programme co-chair of the 23rd Annual ICIS conference in Barcelona in December 2002 and Professor Claudio Ciborra is to be chair of the doctoral consortium for the conference 

  • Nathalie Mitev, PhD recently presented an invited research seminar at Georgia State University on Information Systems Failure, Politics and The Sociology of Translation: the problematic introduction of an American computerised reservation system and yield management at French railways 

  • Carsten Sørensen, PhD and Masao Kakihara gave invited talks at the Department of Informatics at Umeå University, Sweden when visiting on 19-22 May. Carsten Sørensen also gave the keynote presentation at the launch of the new Center for Digital Business, where he is a member of the steering committee. Carsten Sørensen and Masao Kakihara also presented a paper at Mobilize! - the recent 2nd Digital World Research Centre interdisciplinary international workshop debating emerging research directions in the social studies of mobile and ubiquitous technologies 

  • Professor Ian Angell, PhD will be visiting Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburg from 19-21 May to give the graduation speech to their e-commerce masters students. He will also be giving a lecture on Computing as an Obsessive-Compulsive Neurosis

  • Congratulations to ADMIS student Cassandra Morris who completed the recent London Marathon in 5 hours 9 minutes and raised over £900 for the Association for International Cancer Research  

  • Professor Bob Galliers will be the keynote speaker at a British Council-hosted reception to be held in Cairo on 3 June. The theme of his talk will be Business, Information Technology and Globalisation 

  • Mike Cushman, working with Professor Jonathan Rosenhead of the Department of Operational Research, has just completed a series of workshops for the Camden and Islington Health Authority on devising a new service model for the provision of children's health services. This is a complex problem which has engaged the authority for seven years. These workshops, based on the strategic choice approach, have enabled progress to be made for the first time on devising a service model and agreeing advice on locations 

  • Professor Frank Land and Steve Smithson, PhD are working with Professor Chris Clegg of Sheffield University and the British Computer Society Sociotechnical Group on a Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)-funded research project on expert perceptions on obstacles, trends and impacts of e-business 

  • Professor Ian Angell, PhD, Professor Frank Land and Eve Mitleton-Kelly have received Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Systems Integration Initiative funding for a three year collaborative research project on Integrated Complex Social Systems (ICoSS). They will be working with Shell, Rolls-Royce and BT, looking at the conditions that facilitate the emergence of new organisational forms after:
    1. a merger or acquisition;
    2. restructuring; or
    3. spinning off a new business 

  • James Backhouse, PhD has been invited to attend and contribute as an expert to the OECD's expert meeting of the Regulatory Management and Reform Working Party, Public Management Committee on ‘Compliance Dictionary’ in May 

  • In April Tony Cornford, PhD gave a seminar at the City University of Hong Kong Information Systems Group on Concepts of Telehealth: from policy to practice. The seminar described some recent research that explores telehealth in policy, strategic and project terms 

  • Tony Cornford, PhD and Nathalie Mitev, PhD have been awarded a three year Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) grant for the C-SanD project (Creating, Sustaining and Disseminating Knowledge for Sustainable Construction: tools, methods and architectures) starting in July 2001. This is a joint project with Loughborough and Salford Universities and follows on from the department's B-Hive project. Mike Cushman is the designated researcher for the project 

  • The World's First Business Computer: user-driven innovation, the story of  LEO (see Business Computing: the Second 50 Years) co-authored by Professor Frank Land, has just been translated into Chinese and published by China Standard Publications in Hong Kong 

  • In April, Mike Cushman was invited to facilitate a workshop for the officers and senior staff of the Operational Research Society on the future strategy and direction for the society 

  • The department's Social Study of Information Technology (SSIT) Workshop was the subject of an article in The Times Higher on 16 March (p13), ‘Critical dons fire at IT’ 

  • Dr Alison Anderson of the Information Security Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology will be an academic visitor at the Computer Security Research Centre (CSRC) from August to October. Dr Anderson's current research interests include the semantics of computer security risk modelling, and computer forensics, in which the CSRC is a world leader 

  • The video of the 2000 Big Brother Awards (see LSE Information Systems Group hosts the third annual Big Brother Awards on 4 December) featuring Simon Davies and David Shaylor attempting to present an award to Jack Straw is part of the Century Cities exhibition at the Tate Modern 

  • Professor Claudio Ciborra will be the keynote speaker at the international conference on Managing Knowledge: conversations and critiques, to be held at Leicester, 10-11 April. He will be talking about Moody Knowledge. Professor Bob Galliers, Carsten Sørensen, PhD and Edgar Whitley, PhD of LSE will also be presenting papers 

  • Simon Davies launched a report on the Impact on Patient Privacy at a press conference at the House of Lords on 13 March. The report was commissioned by the Nuffield Trust 

  • The Financial Times ran a feature article on 5 March 2001 about the arrival of Professor Bob Galliers and Professor Claudio Ciborra at LSE. Sue Law wrote:

    ’Last year's dotcom boom has brought a surge of interest in the once dreary subject [IS], from students and managers eager to embrace the information age. The subject has become so popular that there is a shortage of academics to fill the growing number of posts.

    ’...Several UK universities have spent long periods with IT chairs vacant but the LSE has managed to snap up two professors at once. ... Profs Galliers and Ciborra personify the new, polished image of their subject and clearly have no problem leaving the back room for centre stage.

    ’...for too long the emphasis in IT teaching has been on the technology. Students need to be taught the importance of the human factor in integrating IT with wider business strategy and how to interpret complex systems across different cultures.’ 

  • The department was recognised in the Times Higher on 2 February 2001. Anthony Hopwood, director of the Said Business School at Oxford University wrote:

    ’... one of the foremost centres of management research is not at a business school but at the London School of Economics. The combined resources of the departments of accounting and finance, information systems and industrial relations; specialists in...; staff ...; ... form a management knowledge powerhouse that it is difficult for any business school to match.’ 

  • The Association for Information Systems (AIS) awarded Professor Frank Land a fellowship of the AIS at an award ceremony at the ICIS 2000 Conference in Brisbane. Professor Land is only the second person from the UK to get this award. The other was Chrisanthi Avgerou, PhD, also of LSE, in 1999 

  • Professor Bob Galliers has been appointed Gemini Consulting Visiting Professor in Knowledge Management at the University of St Gallen, Switzerland for 2000-01. He will also chair the BITWorld Doctoral Consortium in Cairo, Egypt 3-6 June 2001 

  • Jonathan Liebenau, PhD has been appointed as a visiting fellow at Columbia University Business School for 2001-02, to work within the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information 

  • Tony Cornford, PhD visited the Rotterdam Business School, Erasmus University, Rotterdam in January 2001. While there he presented a seminar on new perspectives on information systems implementation and met with staff in the Department of Information and Decision Sciences

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for gaining their doctorates in 2000

  • In December 2000 Peter Sommer and colleagues were awarded a European Commission contract to carry out the intermediate evaluation of the EC Internet Action Plan (on illegal and harmful content on the internet). Earlier, in October 2000, Mr Sommer was part of the UK delegation to the G8 Government-Industry Dialogue on Security and Confidence in Cyberspace Workshops in Berlin 

  • In September 2000 an LSE team, headed by Peter Sommer, was awarded a contract by the UK's Financial Services Authority to provide advice on consumer use of e-commerce facilities in the purchase of financial products such as banking, insurance, pensions, savings, and share-dealing to assist in the development of a suitable regulatory regime

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