Globalisation and the Grid: an infrastructure for demand-driven innovation
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Edinburgh
Department Name: Sch of Economics
Abstract
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Organisations
Publications
Ashley Duncan Lloyd (Author)
(2010)
Building relationships with the 'invisible' across the INWA grid
Barnard, Y.F
(2012)
Exploring the acceptance of mobile technologies using walking interviews
Eshragian, F.
(2014)
Biography of Data: a societal level perspective on data quality
in MIT International conference on Information Quality (ICIQ 2014) August 1-3, Xi'an, China
Gary McGilvary (Author)
(2011)
Optimum platform selection and configuration for computational jobs
Lloyd A
(2011)
Intercontinental Grids: An Infrastructure for Demand-Driven Innovation
in Journal of Grid Computing
| Description | Civic consumers or commercial citizens? : social scientists working with Google UK to better understand online search behaviour |
| Amount | £9,400 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/I030166/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Civic consumers or commercial citizens? : social scientists working with Google UK to better understand online search behaviour |
| Amount | £9,400 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/I030166/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2011 |
| End | 03/2012 |
| Description | 63rd Compliance Committee under the Aarhus Convention |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Reviewing compliance reports submitted by UK Government, updating progress within Edinburgh regarding planned traffic noise and air pollution displacement and monitoring. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Big Data in China: An approach for the Publishing Industry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk to Jiagxi Publishing Group 17 Aug 2015, St Catherine's College, University of Oxford, 17 August 2015. [Note. The Jiangxi Publishing Group is a large state-owned publishing and media group that was founded in 1993, owns more than 130 subsidiaries and has over 10,000 employees.] |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Big Data in China: Modelling migrant behaviour |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk to the China National Bureau of Statistics, 29 October 2015, Castle Suite, Jury's Inn, Edinburgh. [Note. The China National Bureau of Statistics is the government body that collects and publishes statistics related to the economy, population and society of the People's Republic of China at national and local levels.] |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Big Data in China: building data resources and international collaborations to model and predict population behaviour |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk to the National Development and Reform Commission State Information Centre (NDRC-SIC), 3 February 2016, Business School, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh. [Note. The NDRC-SIC is national think tank that supports Chinese government in policy making and supports Chinese government in data analysis related to social and economic activities.] |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Bus loop to be created in city centre |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Bus loop to be created in city centre https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-21772703 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-21772703 |
| Description | City of Edinburgh Council |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presenting on noise and air pollution impacts, reporting triangulation of electrochemical measurements of NO2 with upper canopy lichen population studies, and reviewing latest WHO advice on traffic noise limits. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Edinburgh 1st Pilot Workshop on Measuring and Mitigating Digital Social Exclusion/inclusion |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This inaugural workshop is an interdisciplinary engagement that brings together researchers, experts, policy makers, and workers, to contribute to the topic and explore of digital labour in the 'gig' economy. The focus was on the way that emerging data-centric techniques can be used to develop our understanding of practices and conditions of work, inform debates on governance of exchange of mediated labour. The talk given by Lloyd focussed on the analytical methods and outputs associated with a 'Big Data' study of circular migrant workers in China, sampled from a dataset with a larger number of individual's consumption records than the UK's population. This study was funded by the grants associated with this record. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Edinburgh air pollution grossly underestimated, say campaigners |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Edinburgh air pollution grossly underestimated, say campaigners - Severin Carrell https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/feb/03/scotland-pollution |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/feb/03/scotland-pollution |
| Description | Information business growth and competitiveness in the Asia and Pacific region |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop at ASIAN INTERNET ENGINEERING CONFERENCE (AINTEC) 2010, 15th-17th November 2010, Bangkok, Thailand. Sponsored by DANTE (Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe) http://www.tein3.net/server/show/conEvent.506 http://www.tein3.net/upload/pdf/TEIN_3_HRD_workshop-final.pdf |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | PERMISSIONED INNOVATION: BUILDING A DISTRIBUTED LEDGER INFRASTRUCTURE FOR GLOBAL CARBON MARKETS UNDER ARTICLE 6: Decentralised and distributed digital architecture - innovation and diffusion to build a workable, transparent and ambitious carbon market. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | COP23 Official Side Event organised by UK Department for International Trade Date: 12 Nov 2017 Location: UK Pavilion Title: PERMISSIONED INNOVATION: BUILDING A DISTRIBUTED LEDGER INFRASTRUCTURE FOR GLOBAL CARBON MARKETS UNDER ARTICLE 6: Decentralised and distributed digital architecture - innovation and diffusion to build a workable, transparent and ambitious carbon market. Number of Attendees: 35 - at the event all members of the DLT4NCM team presented, with Lloyd focussing on the relationship between distributed ledger architecture and diffusion potential, applying socio-technical lessons learned from the funded research associated with this record that built a global grid facility connecting sites in three continents. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Talk: 'UK Compliance with the Aarhus Convention, Decision V/9n ACCC_C_2010_53' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | At the 60th meeting of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee (Geneva, 28 February - 3 March 2017), the Compliance Committee will hold an open session on the implementation of decision VI/8k of the Meeting of the Parties concerning the compliance of the United Kingdom. Ashley Lloyd has been invited to address this session as an official communicant, who led an environmental case brought to the Aarhus Committee in which it was agreed that the UK (the 'Party concerned') had failed to meet its obligations under the UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters, the 'Aarhus Convention'. At this event the Committee will explain its procedure going forward with respect to its follow-up on decision VI/8k, including regarding the Party's first progress report due on 1 October 2018. The Committee will also hear from the Party concerned regarding any developments that have taken place since the sixth session of the Meeting of the Parties with respect to its implementation of decision VI/8k. At the time of writing it is not possible to report on these proceedings, but an update can be provided during the next researchfish reporting period. This work aligns with a current project application to develop the research-council funded work associated with this record to deliver a global networked carbon market infrastructure that helps improve the efficiency of mitigation measures and moves towards a single market price for carbon across the world. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/env/pp/compliance/CC-60/CC60_prov_timeline_26.02.2018.pdf |
| Description | The United Nations system, Industry 4.0 and its potential for climate solutions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | COP23 Official Side Event organised by UNIDO Date: 12 Nov 2017 Location: Bonn Zone, Meeting Room 9 Title: The United Nations system, Industry 4.0 and its potential for climate solutions Number of Attendees: 200 - the Distributed Ledger Technology for Networked Carbon Markets (DLT4NCM) team participated in a panel discussion, represented by Justin Macinante (with A D Lloyd, M. Hüwener, A. Jackson). Participation in this event is part of developing the research-council funded work to support a global networked carbon market infrastructure that helps improve the efficiency of mitigation measures and moves towards a single market price for carbon across the world. The audience was very broad and included representatives from both developed and developing economies, particularly the Small Island States who have quite specific barriers to the adoption of, and full participation in, global network infrastructure. This is an audience that it is important to reach, and working with UNIDO represents a significant opportunity to do so. Following this presentation we had discussions about a potential future project with the Green Climate Fund which we have followed up. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | The melodrama of Edinburgh's trams |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The melodrama of Edinburgh's trams - David Miller https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-27633878 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Third academics@Google workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | One of the investigators (Lloyd) participated in the organisation, and co-Chaired the third 'academics@Google' workshop, having presented at Google Forum I and been involved in the organisation of all later workshops. At this event discussions took place with representative of the EPSRC, ESRC and the Technology Strategy Board that resulted in the RCUK/ESRC programme entitled 'Google Data Analytics Social Science Research'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Towards Sustainable Climate Change Response Measures under the Paris Agreement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Joint Organiser and speaker at this official side event at 2017 United Nations Climate Change Conference 23rd yearly session of the Conference of Parties (COP23). Participation reflected the progress made in the associated grants of building industry-grade, US DoD level secure global systems that integrated academic supercomputing facilities with commercial systems across political, legal and geographic boundaries, at a global scale. This event is part of developing the above research-council funded work to support a global networked carbon market infrastructure that helps improve the efficiency of mitigation measures and moves towards a single market price for carbon across the world. This is a highly interdisciplinary project that requires competence in a number of key areas and in this workshop we focus on methods for evaluating NDCs' emission reduction efforts and assesses their economic costs. Whilst actual costs are shown to be higher than least-cost mitigation measures, on the other hand, these costs need to be compared with the beneficial effects of NDCs on Sustainable Development Goals. This optimisation is the subject of related presentations from different groups in the US, Italy and Japan, followed by a panel discussion about solutions to achieve technical innovation and societal objectives effectively. Lloyd co-presented: "Permissioned Innovation: Building a Distributed Ledger Infrastructure for Networking Global Carbon Markets under Article 6" that outlined an innovative, practical and feasible model for moving from the aspirations of the Paris Agreement to the reality of mitigation outcomes being transferred internationally as envisaged by Article 6, paragraph 2. Reflecting the hybrid top-down rules/bottom-up pledge and review nature of the Paris Agreement, we bring together the high-level considerations of how to achieve technical innovation and societal objectives effectively, with the nuts-and-bolts, on the ground, 'how to do it' of making innovation a reality. At this event, Lloyd was co-organiser, speaker and panel member, with three other members of the 'DLT4NCM' team participating as speakers and/or panel members: Justin Macinante, School of Law, The University of Edinburgh; Adrian Jackson (EPCC - National Supercomputing Centre, The University of Edinburgh) and Markus Hüwener (team member and market specialist, previously CEO of the world's first asset management company in the Climate Change sector). Date: 15 Nov 2017 Location: COP23, Bonn, Turkey Pavilion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://seors.unfccc.int/seors/reports/events_list.html?session_id=COP23 |
| Description | UN Compliance Committee Meeting - UK Return |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Reviewing compliance reports submitted by UK Government, updating progress within Edinburgh regarding planned traffic noise and air pollution displacement and monitoring. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | UN to scrutinise Edinburgh Tram complaint |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | UN to scrutinise Edinburgh Tram complaint - 13 Dec 2011 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-16165656 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-16165656 |
| Description | United Nations called in to examine Edinburgh Tram Project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview by David Miller Interview by Gordon Brewer BBC Newsnight Scotland - 13 Dec 2011 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |