Since having been elected to Brighton & Hove City Council I am no longer able to keep track of all my speaking commitments on this page, whenever possible I will try to promote them on my blog.
Appearances from 2007 and earlier:
- E-voting: the last electoral revolution
ICPS, Barcelona 5-6th October 2007. Brief report - Autumn Party Conferences 2007 – Open Rights Group fringe ‘Should we trust electronic elections?’
16/9 LibDems in Brighton, 26/9 Labour in Bournemouth, 2/10 Tories in Blackpool.
audio & video online - Open Rights Group May 2007 election report launch
Royal Academy of Engineering, London, 20th June 2007
audio & video online - Open Rights Group/FIPR e-voting events
University College London, 6th & 8th February 2007 - Election Information Websites: lessons from ‘Election Alarm Clock’ and ‘My Election’ pilots
e-democracy ’06 16th November
Reports from the session - Panel discussion on voter verifiable paper trails
WOTE 2006
University of Cambridge, 29th June 2006 - E-Voting: Policy and Practice
IPPR/NMK event
London, 4th November 2004 - Motivation versus capability: Examining the introduction of electronic voting into the UK
4S-EASST: Public Proofs – Science, Technology and Democracy
Paris, France 25th-28th August 2004 - Voter Verifiability: The Elevator Pitch
Electronic Voting in Europe, ESF Workshop
Lochau/Bregenz, Austria 7th-9th July 2004 - Open Source & e-democracy
Major Cities of Europe IT Users’ Group
Gothenburg, Sweden 9th June 2004 - The Sunday Hour
RTE Radio 1
Dublin (by phone) 29th February 2004 - Electronic voting and democracy – an oxymoron?
Centre for Public Communication Research at the University of Bournemouth
Bournemouth 10th November 2003 - Open Source and Democracy
Government Computing Scotland
Edinburgh 5th November 2003 - The Role of the Internet in a Local Political Party
e-mint, the community manager’s association
London 14th August 2003 - Scratching an Itch – What they don’t tell you about developing Free Software
LinuxUser & Developer Conference
Birmingham 25th June 2003 - This house has confidence voting via the Internet
Oxford Union/Oxford Internet Institute Debate
Oxford 23rd June 2003 - Internet Voting: Fool’s Gold?
Cambridge Computer Science Laboratory Security Seminar
Cambridge 7th May 2002
I no longer am able to keep up with tracking media coverage, so this page is more of an aide memoire for me than a useful current resource!
- There has been so much coverage of the work we’ve been doing over at the Open Rights Group that I’ve lost track! Fortunately ORG do track their own media coverage
- ORG plots e-voting observation
The Register
20th April 2007 - Group pushes to monitor U.K. e-voting next month
InfoWorld/IDG News Service
20th April 2007 - France to choose president with help of electronic voting
International Herald Tribune
17th April 2007
I am quoted as saying “Governments spend more time regulating health and safety than security issues around voting machines” but this should have said that the “Dutch e-voting regulations spend more time…” - E-vote security fears ‘are being ignored’
The Evening Standard
5th March 2007 - Is e-voting a threat to our democracy?
Computer Weekly published as a column a highly edited version of comments from various Open Rights Groups statements I had made.
26th February 2007 - Digital Planet: Coverage of the European e-voting activist workshop I helped organise
BBC World Service
13th February 2007 - E-voting pilots don’t make sense
The Register
9th February 2007 - Digital rights group slams e-voting
ZDNet UK
31st January 2007 - Two skinny lattes and a vote, please
New Statesman
4th December 2006 - Digital Democracy
BBC Radio 4 Westminster Hour
26th November 2006 - Estonians Hold Election on the Internet
Associated Press
14th October 2005
- VoxPop: e-city UK
New Media Knowledge
15th April 2005 - In Most of Europe, Electronic Voting Loses Out to Paper Ballots — Pilot Programs and Tests Are Run, but Reliability And Security Are Concerns
Wall Street Journal Europe
26th July 2004 - The Promise and Perils of Electronic Voting
A World of Possibilities (Radio Programme)
30th March 2004 - The Age of E-Voting
Newsweek International
28th March 2004 - Votes of no confidence
The Independent
3rd March 2004 - The Sunday Show
RTE Radio 1, Ireland
29th February 2004 - Digital ballot gets government’s vote
The Guardian
28th January 2004 - Is the electronic ballot reliable? (Google translation)
[ Original Italian version ]
Smau.it
9th December 2003 - Hackers threaten to short-circuit e-voting plans
The Times
15th November 2003 - E-vote vote
The Guardian
13th November 2003 - Kitcat snaps
NTK
7th November 2003 - Campaign calls for safe e-voting
The Register
5th November 2003
Older Appearances
sheffieldhallam.org.uk/blog/:
Electronic Voting, comments by Richard Allan MP
http://www.sheffieldhallam.org.uk/blog/2003/10/20/12.37.34/
infernalpress.com:
How George W. Bush Won the 2004 Presidential Election
http://www.infernalpress.com/Columns/election.html
eGov Monitor:
Does the UK need e-voting?
http:// www.egovmonitor.com/features/evoting2003.html
eGov Monitor:
Indistinguishable from magic? The Oxford e-Voting debate
http://www.egovmonitor.com/features/kitcat01.html
ZDNet UK:
Internet voting gets the Oxford blues
http:// news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2136566,00.html
KableNet:
Thumbs down for e-vote
KableNet
BBC News Online:
New voting methods ‘increase turnout’
http:// news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2988307.stm
SFGate.com:
Scientists questions electronic voting.
KableNet
Baltimore City Paper:
Future Vote
http://www.citypaper.com/ 2002-12-11/feature.html
Salon.com:
Voting into the Void
http:// www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/11/05/voting_machines/index.html
The Inquirer:
Voters in, garbage out
http:// www.theinquirer.net/? article=5836
The Independent:
Electrical Register
http:// news.independent.co.uk/digital/features/story.jsp?story=294585
LinuxUser:
Free vote: Would you trust a closed-source election?
http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/articles/issue19/lu19-CoverFeature-Freevote.pdf
The Register:
The Microsoft Government Portal explained
http:// www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24882.html
Need To Know (NTK):
While we whine and gripe, others go off and do…
http://www.ntk.net/index.cgi?back=2001/now0518.txt&line=41#I
Yorkshire Post:
Internet Voting “could be only five years away.”
http://yorkshirepost.co.uk/scripts/editorial2.cgi?cid=26&aid=379456
The Argus:
Online voting on Jason’s manifesto
http://www.thisisbrightonandhove.co.uk/brighton__hove/election/ELECTION23.html
Wired News:
Microsoft Monopolizes U.K Gov’t Site
http:/ /www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,44186,00.html
NewsForge:
New version of Free Software e-voting system released
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/05/29/1632212
Slashdot:
Slashback: Election, Election, Election
http:// slashdot.org/articles/00/11/14/0444247.shtml
idno:
Open source voting solution already in the works
http://listserver.actrix.co.nz/pipermail/idno-discuss/2000-November/001709.html
freshmeat:
Info page
http://freshmeat.net/projects/ free/
maccentral:
FREE e-democracy project develops on Macs
http:/ /www.maccentral.com/news/0008/23.free.shtml
Binary Freedom:
A vote for freedom
http:// www.binaryfreedom.com/content.php?content_id=9
FreeDevelopers:
FREE one of two official FD.net e-democracy projects
http:// 209.249.55.157/edemoc/
Byte.com:
e-Lections And i-Voting
http://www.byte.com/ column/monitor/BYT20001117S0010
The Bell:
Jason Kitcat joins editorial board [ I’ve had several articles/letters published too]
http:/ /www.thebell.net
Montana ITC:
Promoting the development of Information Technology Services in the State of Montana, USA
http://www.mtitc.org/issues.lasso
Jason Kitcat 
