Inscribing behaviour in information infrastructure standards

Inscribing behaviour in information infrastructure standards

We focus on the processes producing the standards which make up the technical back-bone of an information infrastructure (II). These standards are neither ready-made nor neutral. They are currently being developed, and they “inscribe” behaviour in complex and non-transpar ent ways. Behaviour at individual, organisational and inter-organisational level is inscribed. We explore how this takes pla...

Standards Policy for Information Infrastructure

Information Security Standards in Critical Infrastructure Protection

The standards applicable to Information Security are legion, from the purely technical, low-level specification of crypto protocols to the high-level organisational management frameworks. Industrial Control Systems among them the Information Systems in Critical Infrastructure still present their own set of challenges and quirks, despite the convergence trend towards mainstream information techn...

Supporting Best Practices and Standards for Information Technology Infrastructure Library

Problem statement: There are several IT best practices and IT standards, which are independently supporting enterprises. Some of them have similarities and other differ from each other. This study discusses these best practices and standards in contrast with ITIL. Approach: CMMI, CobiT, eTOM, ISO 9000, ISO/IEC 17799, Malcolm Baldrige and Six Sigma will be introduces along with ITIL. Results: Th...

6 Conclusion 4.1 Inscribing Inter-organisational Behaviour into Standards 2 Conceptualisations of the Relationship between It and Organisations Social Shaping of Information Infrastructure: on Being Specific about the Technology

I hereby submit the new version of our paper to the 8.2 conference in Cambridge. The most substantial changes we have made are: 1. New title: Social shaping of information infrastructure: on being specific about the technology. (Old title: Social shaping of information infrastructure and new organisational forms.) 2. Actor-network theory is presented in a bit more detail in section 2.2 3. We il...