This month saw the publication of a really excellent report from the Government Office for Science (Foresight Future identities. Changing identities in the UK: the next… Read More »The blurring distinction between online and offline identities

The Scottish Government is running a series of workshops for public sector employees on ‘Scotland’s Digital Future: Delivery of Public Services’.  The event will focus… Read More »Book now for the digital future

The Government must be more vigorous in its approach to cyber security, says the Defence Committee in a report published on 9 January. Interviewed on… Read More »Cybercrime and web awareness

Five million businesses use Google Apps and an estimated 425 million individuals actively use Gmail, a free email service.  We at IRISS use Google Apps for our email,… Read More »Council blocks Google mail

This month the UK cabinet office published its Government Digital Strategy, which restates the objective that government should be ‘digital by default’. Andrea Di Maio… Read More »UK Digital Strategy – digital by default?

  Mindreel is a database of over 100 films submitted the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival over the last six years.  SMAFF is… Read More »Mindreel – a great mental health video resource (blocked!)

People who can seek new information, make sense of it, and share it with their colleagues, will be an asset to any work team. However,… Read More »Digital inclusion? Great idea. Can we have it in the workplace too?

In her review of academic publishing (discussed in this Just Do It blog post), Dame Janet Finch considered the role of institutional repositories: databases containing reports… Read More »Institutional repositories and access to research

A recent High Court judgement didn’t seem to get much attention.  Paul Chambers, who had been found guilty of sending a menacing tweet in which… Read More »High Court clarifies status of a tweet