This page provides access to documents that don't fit into the primary classifications
in the navigation buttons above.
This index is up-to-date as at 31 December 2012. See also:
The What's New Page (because the indexes are never fully up-to-date),
here.
The Search Facility, in the button at the top-right-hand side
of the page.
An index of Presentations since 1995, here.
(The reason that I use 'SOS' as the directory-name for this segment of my site
is historical. This was originally the home-page for my Research Programme in
Supra-Organisational Systems (SOS), which I ran from 1988-95 at the A.N.U. Those
details are down at the bottom).
- Economic, Legal and Social Implications of Information
Technology (MISQ, 1988)
- Asimov's Laws of Robotics: Implications for
Information Technology (IEEE Computer, 1993)
- Ethical Issues in the Preparation and Submission
of Research Papers in the I.S. Discipline (ICIS, 2000), incorporated into
Research
Ethics in Information Systems: Would a Code of Practice Help? (CAIS, 2001)
- slides on ethical and social aspects of IS, and
references (2002)
- Ethical and Social Aspects of I.T. - Property in Bits - IP's Impact on IP,
PowerPoint slides (2002)
- Research Use of Personal Data (2002)
- ENUM - A Case Study in Social Irresponsibility
(2002)
- Is Social Irresponsibility Alive and
Well? (2002)
- Privacy Statement Template
(2005)
- Your Health Records: Privacy Versus
Quality of Care (Panellist's Statement, Melbourne, 2007)
- Revised Version of the AIS Code of Research Conduct (2008, lead-author,
for the Association for Information Systems)
- AIS Privacy Policy Statement (2008, lead-author, for the Association of
Information Systems)
- Cyborg Rights (IEEE
Technology and Society 2011)
- Net-Ethiquette: Mini Case Studies
of Dysfunctional Human Behaviour on the Net (1995)
- Information Technology & Cyberspace: Their
Impact on Rights and Liberties (1995)
- Towards the Analysis of Cyberculture
that Internet Participants Need (1995)
- Encouraging Cyberculture
(1997)
- Ethics and the Internet: The Cyberspace Behaviour
of People, Communities and Organisations (Bus. & Prof'l Ethics J.,
1999)
- Human-Artefact Hybridisation: Forms and
Consequences (Ars Electronica, Linz, 2005):
- Privacy Statement Template
(2005)
- Employee Dismissal on the Basis of
Offending Images on Their Workstation (2005)
- Digital Privacy (2006)
- The Feasibility of Consumer Device
Security (2007, with Alana
Maurushat)
- Your Health Records: Privacy Versus
Quality of Care (Panellist's Statement, Melbourne, 2007)
- What 'Überveillance' Is, and What To Do About
It, plus Surveillance Vignettes (Keynote,
Wollongong, 2007)
- Lawyers' 'Nastygrams' re Trademarks
(2008)
- Cyborg Rights (2010)
- Information Technology and Dataveillance
(1988)
- A 1992 view of what university administration would
like in 2001 (1992)
- Asimov's Laws of Robotics: Implications for
Information Technology (1993)
- Techno-Reality and Techno-Literature slides,
to support A 'Future Trace' on Dataveillance:
The Anti-Utopian and Cyberpunk Literary Genres (1993, 2002)
- The Digital Persona and its Application
to Data Surveillance (1994)
- Information Technology: Weapon of Authoritarianism
or Tool of Democracy?(1994)
- 'The Purchasing-Related Electronic Information Management (PREIM) Project'
(1995, for Purchasing Australia, with David Jonas)
- Net-Based Payment Schemes (1995-96)
- Privacy Issues in Smart Card Applications in the
Retail Financial Sector (1996)
- A Vision of Consumer Payments Futures(1996)
- Book Review of Mark Dery's' 'Escape Velocity:
Cyberculture at the End of the Century' (1996), and the accompanying 'Cyberculture:
Towards the Analysis That Internet Participants Need'
- Chip-Based Payment Schemes: Stored-Value Cards
and Beyond (1996)
- The Information Infrastructure is a Super Eye-Way
(book review of Simon Davies' 'Monitor: Extinguishing Privacy on the Information
Superhighway', 1996)
- New Concerns and Regulatory
Strategies (sections of 'Regulating Financial Services in the Marketspace:
The Public's Interests', 1997)
- The Monster from the Crypt: Impacts and Effects
of Digital Money (1997)
- 'Smart Cards as National Infrastructure' for the Government of Victoria
(1997, with David Jonas)
- Instrumentalist Futurism: A Tool for Examining
I.T. Impacts and Implications (1997)
- We Need Information Infrastructure to Support
Participative Public Policy Decision-Making (1997)
- Public Interests on the Electronic Frontier:
Their Relevance to Policy-Formation for I.T. Security Techniques (1997)
- Design Features for Chip-Based
ID Scheme (a section of 'Chip-Based ID: Promise and Peril', 1997)
- Technological Aspects of Internet Crime Prevention
(1998)
- The Technical Feasibility of Regulating Gambling
on the Internet (1998, with Gillian Dempsey, Ooi Chuin Nee and Rob O'Connor)
- Public Key Infrastructure: Position Statement
(1998)
- Internet Privacy Concerns Confirm the
Case for Intervention (1998)
- Community and Commerce: Is There Scope
for Reconciliation? (a section of 'The Willingness of Net-Consumers to
Pay: A Lack-of-Progress Report', 1999)
- Imminent Applications (a section
of 'Person-Location and Person-Tracking: Technologies, Risks and Policy Implications',
1999)
- What must eCommerce deliver now?? (2000)
- Introducing PITs and PETs: Technologies Affecting
Privacy (2001)
- Research Challenges in Emergent e-Health Technologies
(2001)
- Developments in the Technologies of
Surveillance (a section of 'Paradise Gained, Paradise Re-lost: How the
Internet is being Changed from a Means of Liberation to a Tool of Authoritarianism',
2001)
- Countermeasures (a section of 'Beyond
the Alligators of 21/12/2001, There's a Public Policy Swamp', 2001)
- While You Were Sleeping ... Surveillance
Technologies Arrived (2001)
- Authentication Re-visited: How Public Key Infrastructure
Could Yet Prosper (2003)
- '10-Year Online Security Vision' (for National Office of the Information
Economy, 2003, with David Jonas and Ross Oakley)
- The Internet
and Democracy (for the National Office of the Information Economy,
2004)
- The Future of the Internet in Australia
(a section of 'Origins and Nature of the Internet in Australia', 2004)
- Critical Developments in Bus@ness (Slides,
2004)
- Human-Artefact Hybridisation: Forms and
Consequences (2005):
- Surveillance in Speculative Fiction: Have
Our Artists Been Sufficiently Imaginative? (2009)
- Cyborg Rights (IEEE
Technology and Society 2011)
Between 1988 and 1995, while I was a full-time academic at the A.N.U., I ran
a Research Programme in what I called 'Supra-Organisational Systems' (SOS),
and most
of my research and publications were undertaken within that Programme. Although
I've long since returned to full-time consultancy, I've sustained my links
with
academe, and continue to conduct research and
publish refereed articles, in areas that build on my SOS Research Programme.
My primary areas of interest during the period 1988-95 were:
- 'supra-organisational systems'. I and my colleagues and students published a long list
of papers under the aegis of this Programme. I distinguish several sub-classes of SOS:
- inter-organisational systems (IOS), by which I mean one-to-one relationships between organisations;
- multi-organisational systems (MOS), where there are multiple organisations (> 2), and m-n relationships;
- 'extra-organisational systems' (EOS), which is another term of my own, in which non-organisations
are involved too, generally very small businesses without an IT Manager, and people (e.g. ATMs and EFT/POS);
- public systems, in which organisations are incidental participants (FIDONET and the WELL are longstanding examples, and of course P2P
has in recent years become mainstream and explosive);
- strategic information systems theory, which is one of the primary perspectives from
which I undertake my research. I ran a panel at ICIS'95 in Amsterdam on the
application of strategic IS theory in low-competitive contexts like government, charities and industry associations;
- eCommerce. This is really a sub-set of SOS of course, but worth distinguishing. There's
a host of sub-topics within this field, so see the separate document for an outline of what I think it is;
- information infrastructure. My work here has been variously in the economic and public
policy aspects, and applications in teaching and research;
- data surveillance and information privacy. Once again, this is a pretty big
area. It's also one that interests very few people, so I've buried the details in a separate document few readers will bother looking at. {That was written
in 1995. In fact, the large DV segment of this site has been getting about 1 million hits p.a. for some years now);
- miscellania. I'm a dilettante of the very worst kind - no role model for a good academic at all (or, indeed, for an income-maximising consultant). A few of the other things I've fiddled around with at various times are:
- organisational aspects of information technology, including observations on
the future of IT in organisations, specifically universities, and proceedings
of international conferences in 1989 and 1991;
- legal aspects of IT, including intellectual property, software
escrow, judicial understanding of IT, and liabilities
arising from the use of IT artefacts (Clarke 1988a, 1988b, 1989b, 1989c, 1990b, Clarke & Tyree 1990);
- economic aspects of IT, in particular cost/benefit analysis applied to Government IT projects and
the economics of expert systems;
- social aspects of IT, including conference notes on the Computers, Freedom & Privacy Conferences of
1993 in San Francisco,
1994 in Chicago and
1995, again in San Francisco (and for several later events as well);
- Asimov's Laws of Robotics, and their implications for information technologists;
- the generations of application development software, information
technology architecture and hardware/software products such as the AS/400;
- networked multi-media in teaching and research. Some early evidence of the work in this area undertaken by myself and my colleagues
could once be found in the home-pages of my erstwhile Department.
During the period 1988-95, collaborative work was undertaken with a range of
organisations, including industry associations (EDICA, now ECA, and Tradegate)
and agencies of the governments of Australia and of several States (in particular
the then Information Exchange Steering Committee, and the Departments of Administrative
Services, Purchasing Australia within that Department, the Department of Finance
and the Department of Transport).
I spent over five years of my business career outside Australia, in the United
Kingdom and Switzerland. I have subsequently maintained my associations with
German-speaking countries through participation in many international
conferences, frequently as a member of the program committee, and as an
editorial board member and referee for many international journals. From time
to time, I undertake field-work overseas, and have been invited as a Visiting
Professor at the Universities of Bern (Switzerland) and Linz (Austria). Links
have also been established with the EDI World Institute, based in Montreal.
I collaborated with staff and students at other Australian and overseas
Universities, in Australia (Curtin Uni. of Technology), Austria (Linz), Belgium
(Namur), Canada (McGill and UBC), Germany (Hohenheim-Stuttgart), Singapore (NUS
and NTU), Slovenia (Maribor), Switzerland (St Gallen), The Netherlands
(Erasmus, Limburg), the United Kingdom (Sussex and Cranfield) and the United
States (Denver and Arizona at Tucson).
In addition to undertaking research myself, working with academic colleagues,
and employing casual research assistants, I supervised research candidates in
the Graduate Programs in Commerce and in Computer Science & Technology at
the Australian National University. (Subsequently, I've supervised doctoral
and Honours candidates in Computer Science and elsewhere at A.N.U. In my role
as a Visiting Professor at U.N.S.W. in the Baker & McKenzie Cyberspace Law
& Policy Centre, I've also supervised several law doctorates).
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