Chair in Digital Government on panel for Westminster Hall debate
Professor Miriam Lips spoke at the Westminster Hall of the House of Commons in the United Kingdom on 9th April as part in an international panel debate on information sharing in the public sector.
The panel discussed what the UK can learn from the United States and New Zealand, and was sponsored by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
The panel was chaired by Labour Member of Parliament and Shadow Minister for Digital Government Chi Onwurah. The other expert panellists were Conservative MP for Boston and Skegness, and Member of the UK House of Commons Science & Technology Committee Matt Warman, Newcastle University’s Professor Rob Wilson and Professor Sharon Dawes from State University of New York.
Professor Lips was also invited to take part in an ESRC-sponsored two-day expert workshop with academics and UK public officials on information-sharing in public service provision in London, and to deliver a public lecture at Newcastle University on ‘Understanding and Explaining Online Information-sharing Behaviours of New Zealanders: A New Taxonomy’, based on recent national research undertaken in New Zealand.