Edgar Whitley e.a.whitley@lse.ac.uk Assessing ICT security risks in socio-technical systems: Policy implications Edgar Whitley e.a.whitley@lse.ac.uk
Edgar Whitley e.a.whitley@lse.ac.uk Assessing ICT security risks in socio-technical systems: Policy implications Edgar Whitley e.a.whitley@lse.ac.uk
Edgar Whitley e.a.whitley@lse.ac.uk Assessing ICT security risks in socio-technical systems: Policy implications Edgar Whitley e.a.whitley@lse.ac.uk
Socio-technical systems and policy implications
What is socio-technical? Governance Actor Network Theory Data Shaving Legal Management Ethics Usability / people aspects Ecosystem
Something that starts with the technical Technology, organisations, people “Add in” the social Technology “among the people”
Socio-technical is … Tavistock approach Social shaping Human factors Cybernetics Actor network theory Socio-materiality …
Social and technical
Humans and non-humans
Science and society
Facts and values
Due process and the politics of nature Tendency for politics to short circuit ‘any and all questioning as to the nature of the complex bonds between science and societies, through the invocation of Science as the only salvation from the prison of the social world’ (p. 13)
Towards a ‘common world’ Need to acknowledge that in many cases, scientific consensus does not (yet) exist Need for (political) action Need to use science before there is consensus in the technical community
The politics of nature (Latour) Developing the critique of modernity Facts (What ‘science’ “does”) Scientific controversies Scientific institutions Values (What ‘society’ “does”) Consultation Hierarchy
Fact / Value distinction (1) Facts Values Perplexity Consultation Institution Hierarchy
Fact / Value distinction (2) Perplexity Consultation How many are we? Institution Hierarchy Can we live together?
References Latour, B. (2004). The politics of nature: How to bring the sciences into democracy (C. Porter, tran.), Harvard University Press Cambridge, MA. Latour, B. (2005). Reassembling the social: An introduction to Actor-Network-Theory, Oxford University Press Oxford.
Application of Latour’s model Whitley, E. A., and Hosein, I. R. (2008). Doing the politics of technological decision making: Due process and the debate about identity cards in the UK, European Journal of Information Systems 17(6), 668–677.
Socio-technical systems and the Tavistock Institute https://en Enid Mumford: Applying sociotechnical systems to computer system design https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/may/03/guardianobituaries.obituaries
“Victims” Feedback we had received when using the phrase ‘victims of domestic violence’ Feminist language has changed on domestic abuse to speak about either "patriarchal violence" or "violence against women." This helps to connect these instances of violence to larger systems of sexism, racism, etc. It also gets away from reifying survivors of violence as "victims" - although there is no perfect language, since not all women survive.
MISQ Research curation Securing digital assets https://misqresearchcurations.wordpress.com/2016/05/27/securing-digital-assets/