Peer-reviewed journal articles

“Automating the public sector and organizing accountabilities”, with M. L. Smith & M. E. Noorman, Communications of the Association for Information Systems 26(1): 1-16, 2010 [ISSN 1529-3181]

“Understanding resistance to digital surveillance: Towards a multi-disciplinary, multi-actor framework”, with R. van Brakel & D. J. Bernhard, Surveillance & Society 6(3): 213-232, 2009 [ISSN 1477-7487] (Awarded a best paper award by the Surveillance Studies Network for demonstrating exceptional promise in surveillance studies)

“Managing public expectations of technological systems: A case study of a problematic government project”, with E. A. Whitley, Spontaneous Generations 1(1): 67-77, 2007 [ISSN 1913-0465]

Books & book chapters

“Open Government and Citizen Identities”, with C. Bonina, To appear in a forthcoming volume edited by M.L. Smith & K. Reilly, MIT Press, 2012

“Rethinking security at the Olympics”, with D. J. Bernhard, in Security Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events, edited by C.J. Bennett & K. D. Haggerty, Routledge, 2011 [ISBN-13: 978-04-156-0262-4 ISBN-10: 041-560-262-9]

“Management and innovation of e-business”, with A. Cordella, M.I. Shaikh & S. Smithson, University of London Press, 2010 (I co-authored the chapters on technology and infrastructure, marketing, supply chain management, web 2.0, and information security)

Conference papers, presentations & panels

Panelist at the Global Identity Networking of Individuals (GINI) hearing at the Global Forum conference, Brussels, Belgium, November 2011

“Biometrics, Privacy, and Public Policy”, presented as part of the panel on Privacy, Identity, and Mobility at the 7th Korea Communications Conference (KCC), Seoul, Korea, May 2011

“Technological Discourse in Public Policy Initiatives”, presented at the workshop on Security Public Policy in an Age of Insecurity, hosted by the International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati, Basque Country, April 2011

“Briefing on ID cards, biometrics, and policy engagement", presented at Privacy International's PrivAsia workshop, Panglao Island, Philippines, March 2011

Panelist at the 2011 Computers, Privacy & Data Protection (CPDP) conference, Brussels, Belgium, January 2011

“Governing e-health privacy and security in developing countries and emergency situations", International Data Sharing Conference, Oxford, UK, September 2010

“Openness in Latin America and the problem of identification”, with C. Bonina & S. Goldchluk, Presented at the conference on Open Development: Technological, organizational and social innovations transforming the developing world, Ottawa, Canada, May 2010

“Opening surveillance?”, with D. Murakami Wood, Presented at the 4th Bi-annual Surveillance & Society Conference: A Global Surveillance Society?, London, UK, April 2010

“Constructing and disrupting transparencies: ICTs and identity management in Latin America”, with C. Bonina & S. Goldchluk, Presented at the Latin American European Meeting on Organization Studies (LAEMOS), Sub-theme 4: Digital media, information and organizations, Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 2010

Participant on the VOME (Visualisation and Other Methods of Expression) scoping workshop on identity management, London, UK, November 2009

Guest lecture on Classification and its Consequences for the Information Technology and Society (IS143) course, LSE, UK, October 2009

“Strengthening theory and methodology for ICT4D research" tutorial at the International Development Research Centre's (IDRC) Acacia Research and Learning Forum 2009, Dakar, Senegal, October 2009

“The Implications of Networked Societies" panel at the International Development Research Centre's (IDRC) Acacia Research and Learning Forum 2009, Dakar, Senegal, October 2009

“Using Privacy Impact Assessments to Manage Risk and Reputation", eema eIdentity Management conference, London, UK, June 2009

“Biometric innovations in "a surveillance society?": a research status report", for the Information Systems Research Seminar (IS554), LSE, UK, June 2009

Surveillance and pre-emption panel for the Surveillance Societies: What Price Security? conference, Macaulay Honors College, CUNY, NYC, NY, April 2009

Participant at the Surveillance and Empowerment workshop, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, March 2009

Guest lecture on Invisibility and Resistance for the MA programme in Surveillance Studies at City University, London, UK, December 2008

“Researching the biometric artifact: visions and expectations meet the politics of privacy”, Presented at the AIS SIGSEC Workshop on Information Security & Privacy (pre-ICIS), Paris, France, December 2008

“Adapting theory for researching future expectations in information systems innovations: the case of the United Kingdom's national biometric identity scheme”, Presented at the 4S/EASST 2008 conference, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, August 2008

“Accountabilities, automations, dysfunctions, and values: ICTs in the public sector”, with M. L. Smith & M. E. Noorman, Presented at the 24th European Group for Organizational Studies colloquium, Sub-theme 39: Unsettling Technology and Accountability, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2008

“Volunteerism, research ethics and the United Kingdom's National DNA Database”, with C. M. Connors, Presented at the Governing Biobanks conference, Oxford, UK, June 2008

“Reflections on the DNA database: What Camus can teach us about identity, technology, and society”, with M. L. Smith, Presented at the Ethics, Technology and Identity conference, The Hague, The Netherlands, June 2008

“Private Brain, Public Data? Brain-Banking in the Information Age”, with C. M. Connors, Presented at the First Multi-disciplinary Research Workshop on Identity in the Information Society, Arona, Lago Maggiore, Italy, May 2008

“Biometrics and the UK National Identity Register: Exploring the privacy dilemmas of proportionality and secondary use of biometric information”, Presented at the 2008 International Conference on Information Resources Management (Conf-IRM), Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, May 2008

“Public Understandings and Expectations of Biometric Identity Systems: A Case Study of the United Kingdom's National Identity Scheme”, Presented at the MEPHISTOS Graduate Student Conference, Austin, TX, April 2008

ICTs, privacy, and surveillance panel for the 8th Social Study of ICT workshop, LSE, UK, April 2008

“Public understandings and expectations of biometric identity systems: An ongoing case analysis of the UK's national ID scheme", for the FIDIS Doctoral Consortium on identity and identification in e-business and e-government, Collegium Leoninum, Bonn, Germany, February 2008

“Making the most of focus group-based empirical research”, for the Information Systems Research Seminar (IS554), LSE, UK, February 2008

“Changing perceptions of government technology, surveillance, and privacy: Lessons from the UK Identity Cards Scheme”, with E. A. Whitley, for the London Public Understanding of Science seminar series, LSE, UK, January 2008

"Public understandings of biometric identification”, for Professor Martin Bauer's Social Psychology of New Technology (PS439) lecture on Information Technology (week 7), LSE, UK, February 2007

Policy and technical reports

“Facial recognition technology” briefing for the Big Brother Incorporated ‘Surveillance Debunked’ resource, Privacy International, 2011

“Electronic Health Privacy and Security in Developing Countries and Humanitarian Operations”, with G. Hosein, Policy Engagement Network, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2010

“Research Note on Privacy and Security of Medical Records in Developing Countries and Emergency Situations”, with G. Hosein, Policy Engagement Network, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2010

“Narrative Report for the IDRC's Acacia Research and Learning Forum”, with A. Sey & C. Sinha, 2010

“Privacy and Developing Countries: A Report for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada”, by G. Hosein, 2011 (I contributed research and analysis on technological developments in developing countries)

“Internet Governance: Asia-Pacific perspectives”, edited by D. Butt, UNDP-APDIP, Elsevier, 2005 [ISBN-13: 978-81-312-0110-7 ISBN-10: 81-312-0110-4] (I contributed research on WiFi adoption and regulation in Asia-Pacific)

Book reviews

“Wiring Up The Big Brother Machine... And Fighting It”, [Book review], Surveillance & Society 6(4): 416-417, 2009 [ISSN 1477-7487]

Work-in-progress

“Opening Surveillance”, with D. Murakami-Wood, Journal of Community Informatics, Accepted with revisions

“Failed biometric futures? Lessons from the National Identity Scheme in the United Kingdom”, In progress

Teaching

1. • Assistant examiner, University of London External Programme, Information Systems and Organizations (136) (Summer 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)
   

2. • Lecturer at the LSE Study Weekend for External Students: Sociology of Information Systems (112), The Ethics and Politics of Information Systems (113) (February 2009, 2010)
   

3. • Class teacher, E-Business in the Digital Age (MG150) (Summer 2008, 2009, 2010)
   

4. • Teaching assistant, Information Technology and Society (IS143) (2006-2009)
   

Media experience

I am regularly asked to interview on IT policy-related news

1. • The Big Issue in the North: Quoted in report on Merseyside police use of OmniPerception’s face biometric technology : Facial recognition software causes ‘civil liberty problems’
   

2. • Al Jazeera English News (International TV): Interviewed regarding BlackBerry services potentially being banned in certain Middle Eastern and Asian countries (August 2010)
   

3. • Al Jazeera English News (International TV): Provided expert commentary following the conviction of Google executives in Italy for privacy infringement (February 2010): Google hit by privacy convictions
   

4. • Al Jazeera English News (International TV): Interviewed about the future of global Internet censorship following Google's decision to re-consider its presence in China (January 2010)
   

5. • Pravda.sk (Slovakian newspaper): Interviewed about the significance of Google's decision to end its censorship of web searches on Google.cn (January 2010): Will Google pull out from China?
   

6. • Al Jazeera English News (International TV): Interviewed about the significance of the recent exodus of editors from Wikipedia (November 2009)
   

7. • Al Jazeera English News (International TV): Interviewed for special segment on paying for news content online (October 2009)
   

8. • Al Jazeera English News (International TV): Interviewed about Iran's blocking of Facebook prior to the Iranian presidential election (May 2009)
   

9. • Al Jazeera English News (International TV): Interviewed as an expert on p2p file sharing (following the April 2009 conviction of The Pirate Bay for facilitating the breach of copyright law)
   

10. • Al Jazeera English News (International TV): Interviewed as a technology expert on Internet censorship (China blocking YouTube in March 2009)
    

Reviewer

I have reviewed articles for these academic journals and conferences

1. • Management Information Systems Quarterly (MISQ)
   

2. • European Journal of Information Systems
   

3. • Public Understanding of Science
   

4. • IT and People
   

5. • Technology Assessment and Strategic Management
   

6. • Identity in the Information Society (IDIS) Journal
   

7. • Surveillance & Society
   

8. • European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS) Colloquium sub-theme on Unsettling Technology and Accountability (2008)
   

9. • Workshop on Information Security & Privacy (pre-ICIS 2008)
   

10. • European Conference on Information Systems (2009, 2012) (Associate editor and reviewer)
    

11. • Conference on Open Development: Technological, organizational and social innovations transforming the developing world (2010)
    

Scholarships, awards & prizes

I have been awarded the following academic scholarships, awards, and prizes

1. • Awarded a prize for the best article published by an early-career researcher in Surveillance & Society, 2010
   

2. • Fully funded participant on the Surveillance Studies Network seminar series on The Everyday Life of Surveillance, 2007-2009 - an ESRC funded, multidisciplinary project aiming to improve our understandings of what it means to live in a surveillance society
   

3. • LSE Information Systems Research Studentship, 2006-2011
   

4. • LSE Teaching Assistantship, 2006-2008
   

5. • GWU-Al Akhawayn University Summer Study Scholarship, 2003 - awarded for intensive Arabic language studies in Ifrane, Morocco
   

6. • International Education of Students Scholarship, 2002 - to study abroad at the University of Melbourne, Australia
   

7. • George Washington University (GWU) Shapiro Public Service Award, 2001 - awarded for undertaking voluntary public service at the Boys & Girls Club of Hilton Head Island during summer break
   

8. • GWU Thaddeus and Jean Lindner Scholarship, 2001-2004
   

9. • GWU Presidential Academic Scholarship, 2000-2004
   

10. • GWU University and Alumni Award, 2000-2004
    

11. • Rotary Club of Hilton Head Scholarship, 2000-2001