Whose Security? The Politics of Alternative Scope Definitions
Dr. Roger Clarke ( Xamax Consultancy Ltd. )
- 11:00 30th January 2013 ( week 3, Hilary Term 2013 )Tony Hoare Room, Robert Hooke Building
Security conversations involve considerable ambiguities about scope and perspective. Executives in government agencies and business enterprises, and their organisations' IT staff, focus on different parts of different elephants. Meanwhile, many security discourses are conducted at higher levels, such as industry sectors and nation-states.
Ambiguities of scope and perspective hamper discussion and analysis. They also create challenges for empirical researchers. Which biases should be prioritised when selecting and framing research questions? Which unit of study is appropriate? This presentation identities key aspects of various scope definitions of security, and teases out tensions among the perspectives and the players.
Speaker bio
Roger Clarke is a consultant focusing on strategic and policy implications of advanced information technologies, based in Canberra. He is a Visiting Professor in the Research School of Computer Science at the Australian National University, and in the Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre at the University of N.S.W. He is also Chair of the Australian Privacy Foundation, and Secretary of the Internet Society of Australia.Share this:
