Edinburgh Napier University

E-Government Information Search by English-as-a Second Language Speakers: The Effects of Language Proficiency and Document Reading Level

Journal Article

Harvey, M., & Brazier, D. (2022)

E-Government Information Search by English-as-a Second Language Speakers: The Effects of Language Proficiency and Document Reading Level  . Information Processing and Management, 59(4), Article 102985. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2022.102985

A rapid increase in the use of web-based technologies - and corresponding changes in government and local council policies - in recent years, means that many vital services ar...

Scottish Community Councils online: the 2014 survey

Report

Ryan, B., & Cruickshank, P. (2014)

Scottish Community Councils online: the 2014 survey. Scotland: Community Councils Network

This document reports the results of a survey, carried out in late spring 2014, of the public web presences of potentially over 1300 Scottish Community Councils (CCs). It foll...

e-Petitioner for English Local Authorities

2004 - 2005

The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister’s Local eDemocracy National Project (March 2004 to March 2005) investigated new channels of participation and piloted various approaches to encourage citizen pa...

Funder: Bristol City Council | Value: £42,000

e-engaging young Scotland on radioactive waste management

2004 - 2004

The ITC was funded by the Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department (SEERAD) to research appropriate tools and techniques to engage young people in their continuing dialogue on radio...

Funder: Scottish Government | Value: £32,000

e-Community Councils

2004 - 2006

In February 2004 Edinburgh Napier University’s International Teledemocracy Centre received funding from the Scottish Executive to investigate how technology could be developed to help regenerate dem...

Funder: Scottish Government | Value: £92,000

Expert Evaluation Team for the Local eDemocracy National Project

2003 - 2005

How can Local Authorities be sure that eDemocracy works? How can they be sure that they are using the right e-enabled tool for the job and that the use of these tools will result in effective input to...

Funder: Bristol City Council | Value: £40,000

Ur'Say for Young Scot

2002 - 2004

The ITC worked with Young Scot on their Ur'Say channel, when they were just beginning to use their website to gather young people's opinions and host discussions on relevant issues. ITC developed n...

Funder: Young Scot | Value: £40,000

Smartgov

2002 - 2004

SmartGov (IST-2001-35399) was a project funded by the European Commission under its Information Society Technologies Programme (IST). The aim of the project was to develop a governmental knowledge-ba...

Funder: EU Framework Programme 7 and FP6 and earlier programmes | Value: £240,000

EDEN: Electronic Democracy European Network

2001 - 2004

The EDEN project grew out of the rationale that online information on decision-making leads to greater transparency in governance, as a pre-requisite for online consultation and participation. EDEN ...

Funder: EU Framework Programme 7 and FP6 and earlier programmes | Value: £67,000

E-petitioner for the Scottish Parliament

2000 - 2007

The Scottish Parliament accepted its first electronic petition from the ITC's electronic petitioning system. The ITC (now part of the Centre for Social Informatics) worked with the Scottish Parliame...

Funder: Scottish Government | Value: £51,733

E-democracy Services for Highland Youth Voice

2000 - 2008

ITC worked with Highland Youth Voice (a youth parliament in the Highland Region) from 2000 to 2008. An e-voting website, with a discussion form, supported the parliament's first elections in 2000. Fro...

Funder: The Highland Council | Value: £134,176

Evaluation of engagement with hyperlocal e-participation systems by citizens and representatives

2019 - 2021

This work is concerned with the information practices associated with hyperlocal representation. The fin...

Dr Peter Cruickshank | Director of Studies: Prof Hazel Hall | Second Supervisor: Dr Kendall Richards

Participation Space Studies: a socio-technical exploration of activist and community groups? use of online and offline spaces to support their work

2011 - 2016

Participation Space Studies explore eParticipation ...

Dr Ella Taylor-Smith | Director of Studies: Dr Colin Smith | Second Supervisor: Dr Michael Smyth

Activity theory as a tool for data analysis - School of Computing Seminar Series

Core44, room C44, Merchiston Campus

6 September 2017

Digital engagement report published

27/01/2016

27 January 2016