Andrew Clement
Professor
Education:
PhD - Computer Science - University of Toronto, 1986
MSc - Computer Science - University of British Columbia, 1973
BSc - Mathematics (Honours) - University of British Columbia, 1968
Administrative responsibilities:
Faculty of Information:
- Faculty Liason - Identity, Privacy, and Security Institute
Other:
- Identity Privacy and Security Institute (IPSI) Co-founder, Management Committee member (2007-)
Past responsibilities:
- Director, Collaborative Graduate Program in Knowledge Media Design, Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI), University of Toronto (2001-2007)
- KMDI Executive Committee
- KMDI Steering Committee
- FIS Life and Times Committee (2004-06; co-Chair 2004)
-
FI Appointments Committee (2004-06; chair, IS++ subcommittee, 2005, Communication, 2011)
- FIS Promotions Committee (2001-11)
Biography:
Professor Clement's research and teaching interests are in the social implications of information/communications technology and human-centred systems development. Recent work focusses on public information policy for guiding the development of Canada’s information infrastructure, digitally mediated surveillance, internet use in everyday life, digital identity constructions, public participation in information/communication infrastructures development, and community networking. He has also written papers and co-edited books in such areas as: computer supported cooperative work; participatory design; workplace surveillance; privacy; women, work and computerization; end user computing; and the 'information society' more generally.
Research highlight:
Professor Clement continues to explore the social and public policy implications of the emerging information/communication infrastructure, and is working on identity, privacy and surveillance research as well as related public education initiatives.
Research description:
For current and previous research projects, see Information Policy Research Program (IPRP)
Research interests
- Critical information studies
- Information systems, media, and design
- Social implications of information and communication technology
- Human-centred systems development
- Public interest information policies
- Identity, privacy, and surveillance
Selected publications:
Articles
Clement, A., Ley, D., Costantino, T., Kurtz, D., Tissenbaum, M. "PIPWatch Toolbar: Using Social Navigation to Enhance Privacy Protection and Compliance", IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 29(1), 2010, pp. 50-57.
Clement, A. & Potter, A.B. “"Saving Toronto Hydro Telecom's One Zone project from itself: alternative models for urban public wireless infrastructure," The Journal of Community Informatics, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2008) Special Issue: Wireless Networking for Communities, Citizens and the Public Interest.
Viseu, A., Clement, A., Aspinall, J., & Kennedy, T. “The Interplay of Public and Private Spaces in Internet Access”, Information, Communication & Society (iCS), Vol. 9, No. 5, October 2006, pp. 633-656.
Viseu, A., Clement, A., & Aspinall, J. “Situating Privacy Online: Complex perceptions and everyday practices”, Information, Communication & Society (iCS), Vol. 7, No. 1, March 2004, pp. 92–114.
Conference Papers
Clement, A., Costantino, T., Kurtz, D., & Tissenbaum, M. “Participatory Design and Development of Web 2.0 Sites: The case of PIPWatch - the collaborative privacy enhancing and accountability toolbar”, presented at Participatory Design Conference (PDC08), Bloomington, IN, October 1-4, 2008. 10pp. (Full paper refereed)
Clement, A. & MacDonald, S. “Reflections on Participatory Design at a Community Social Services Agency: The St Chris House Learning Network”, presented at Participatory Design Conference (PDC08), Bloomington, IN, October 1-4, 2008. 4pp. (Exploratory paper refereed)
Fiser, A. & Clement, A., “The K-Net Broadband Deployment Model: Enabling Canadian Aboriginal Community Control of Telecom Infrastructure Through Relationship Building and Heterogeneous Engineering”, presented at IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS 08) Fredericton, NB, June 26-28, 2008. (Full paper refereed)
Clement, A., Ley, D., Costantino, T., Kurtz, D., & Tissenbaum, M. “The PIPWatch Toolbar: Combining PIPEDA, PETs and market forces through social navigation to enhance privacy protection and compliance”, presented at IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS 08) Fredericton, NB, June 26-28, 2008. (Full paper refereed)
Clement, A. & Ferenbok, J. “Asymmetric Visibilities: Biometric identification and (dis)appearing face-based surveillance infrastructures”, paper presented at (In)visibilities: The Politics, Practice and Experience of Surveillance in Everyday Life, University of Sheffield, April 2-3, 2008. 32pp. (Abstract refereed)
Wong, M., Powell, A. & Clement, A. “Reading Service Set Identifiers (SSIDs): Marking and Locating for Public and Private Wireless Spaces”, presented at the Association of Internet Researchers (A.o.I.R.) International Conference, Internet Research 8.0, Vancouver, B.C., October 17 - 20, 2007. (Abstract refereed)
Wong, M. & Clement, A. “Sharing Wireless Internet in Urban Neighbourhoods”, presented in Top Papers session of the 3rd International Conference on Communities and Technologies, Michigan State Univ., June 28-30, 2007 (Full paper refereed) (for re-publication, see above)
Middleton, C., Clement, A., Longford, G., & Potter, A., “ICT Infrastructure as Public Infrastructure: Exploring the Benefits of Public Wireless Networks”, presented at the 34rd Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC) (Washington D.C.) Sept 29-30, 2006 (Abstract refereed)
Shah, S., & Clement, A. “A Participatory Design Wiki”, poster presented at Participatory Design Conference PDC'06, Trento, Italy, July 27-31 2006 (Abstract refereed)
A. Clement & Boa, K. “Developing Canada’s Biometric Passport: Where are Citizens in this Picture?” paper presented at Technology and Citizenship Symposium, International Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Society, McGill University, Montreal, June 9-10, 2006. (Abstract refereed)
Fiser, A., Clement, A., & Walmark, B. “The K-Net Development Process: A Broadband Model for First Nations Community Networking”. Presented at the 33rd Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC) (Washington D.C.) Sept 23-25, 2005, 58pp. http://web.si.umich.edu/tprc/papers/2005/447/K-NetTPRC05.pdf
Clement, A. and Hurrell, C. “Information/communications rights as a new environmentalism? Core environmental concepts for linking rights-oriented computerization movements.” Paper presented at Remembering Rob Kling: Social Informatics Workshop, the Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations (CRITO) at the University of California, Irvine, March 10-11, 2005. (Extended abstract refereed)
Clement, A, & Boa, K., “Should the public trust claims that National Identity Schemes can help make us terrorist attack proof?”, presented at the Society for Social Studies of Science/European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (4S/EASST) conference, Paris, August 25-28, 2004. (Abstract refereed)
Clement, A., Kennedy, T., Aspinall, J., & Viseu, A., “Everyday Internet(s): Situating Internet Use and Value”, presented at the Association of Internet Researchers (A.o.I.R.) International Conference, Internet Research 5.0 held in Brighton UK, Sept. 19-22, 2004. (Abstract refereed, presented by T. Kennedy)
Luke, R, Clement, A., et al. “The Promise and Perils of a Participatory Approach to Developing an Open Source Community Learning Network”, Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference (PDC04)- Artful Integration: Interweaving Media, Materials and Practices, Toronto, July 27-31, 2004, pp. 11-19.
Clement, A, et al., “CRACIN: the Canadian Research Alliance for Community Innovation and Networking”, presented at the International Colloquium - Communication and Democracy: Technology and Citizen Engagement, Wednesday, Fredericton, New Brunswick, August 4 - 6, 2004. (Abstract refereed)
Luke, R. and Clement, A., “Towards an Evaluation Framework for Community Learning Networks,” Paper presented at the Building & Bridging Community Networks: Knowledge, Innovation & Diversity through Communication conference held in Brighton, UK, March 31- April 2, 2004, 22 pp.
Book Sections
Clement, A., Boa, K., Davies, S. & Hosein, G. “Toward a National ID Card for Canada? External drivers and internal complexities” in Playing the Identity Card: Surveillance, Security and Identification in Global Perspective, Colin Bennett and David Lyon (editors), Routledge, pp. 233-250.
Clement, A. & Hurrell, C. “Information/communications rights as a new environmentalism? Core environmental concepts for linking rights-oriented computerization movements” in Computerization Movements and Technology Diffusion: From Mainframes to Ubiquitous Computing, Ken Kraemer and Margaret Elliott (editors) ASIS&T Monograph Series, Information Today, Inc., Medford, NJ, 2008, pp. 337-358.
Clement, A. & Potter, A.B. “Internet Infrastructure for All: Time for Canadian Municipalities to Step Up!” in For Sale to the Highest Bidder: Telecom Policy in Canada, edited by Marita Moll & Leslie Regan Shade (editors) Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) Ottawa, 2008, pp. 109-119.
Wong, M. & Clement, A. “Sharing Wireless Internet in Urban Neighbourhoods”, in Steinfield, C., Pentland, B., Ackerman, M., and Contractor, N. (eds.), Communities and Technologies 2007: Proceedings of the Third Communities and Technologies Conference, Michigan State University, 2007, London: Springer, 2007, 275-294.
Clement, A., Aspinall, J., Viseu, A., & Kennedy, T., “Public access, personal privacy and media interweaving in everyday internet experiences: exploring current policy concerns via a ‘neighbourhood ethnography’”, in Communications in the Public Interest: – Volume II Convergence of Policy and Practice? Marita Moll & Leslie Shade (editors) Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) Ottawa, 2004, pp. 245-282.
Conference Proceedings
Clement, A., Costantino, T., Kurtz, D., & Tissenbaum, M. “Participatory Design and Development of Web 2.0 Sites: The case of PIPWatch - the collaborative privacy enhancing and accountability toolbar”, in Proceedings of the Tenth Anniversary Conference on Participatory Design 2008, Indiana University: Indianapolis, IN, 2008, 51-60.
Clement, A., de Cindio, F., Oostveen, A-M., Schuler, D., & van den Besselaar, P., (editors), Artful Integration: Interweaving Media, Materials and Practices, Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference (PDC04) Volume I, CPSR, ACM (New York), 237 pp.
Bond, A., Clement, A., de Cindio, F., Schuler, D., & van den Besselaar, P., (editors), Artful Integration: Interweaving Media, Materials and Practices, Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference (PDC04) Volume II, CPSR (Palo Alto), 218 pp.
Research Papers
Clement, A., “I am a rightful person! Protecting personal identity in the face of pervasive surveillance” presented in the research paper panel session “In The Eye Of The Beholder: Surveillance And The Performance Of Identity“ at the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) 2007 Annual Meeting, Montreal, October 11-3, 2007.
Clement, A., MacDonald, S., & Longford, G. “Community Networking Experiences with Government Funding Programs: Service Delivery Experimentation or Sustainable Social Innovation?” presented at the final CRACIN research workshop, Concordia University, Montreal, June 20-22, 2007.
Macdonald, S., & Clement, A., Lessons Learned in Community-based Innovation: the St. Christopher House Community Learning Network” presented at the final CRACIN research workshop, Concordia University, Montreal, June 20-22, 2007.
Fiser, A. & Clement, A., The K-Net broadband deployment model: How a flexible, open, and decentralized community-based network integrates remote and urban sectors of Ontario”, presented at the final CRACIN research workshop, Concordia University, Montreal, June 20-22, 2007.
Fiser, A. and Clement, A. “The K-Net broadband deployment model: How a community-based network integrates public, private, and not-for-profit sectors to support remote and under-served communities in Ontario,” research report to Ontario Ministry of Government Services, Toward a Broadband Research Agenda for Ontario, submitted May 18, 91pp.
Boa, K., Clement, A., Davies, S. & Hosein, G. “CAN-ID: Visions for Canada: Identity Policy Projections and Policy Alternatives”, research report submitted to the Office of the Privacy Commission, Ottawa, March 31, 120pp.
Other
Clement, A. & Bennett, Colin. “Enhanced driver’s licence or national identity card?”, Opinion section, Toronto Star, November 17, 2008. http://www.thestar.com/article/537409
Clement, A. & Potter, A.B. “Toronto's wireless network has fallen behind other cities” Opinion section, Toronto Star, March 31, 2008.
Longford, G. & Clement, A., “How Long Will Toronto’s Wireless Network Be Free?” Op-ed Opinion, Toronto Star, September 7, 2006.
Supervision:
Ph.D. Supervision (completed):
Adam Fiser - Broadband Governance Model: How social enterprise integrated public, for-profit, and not-for-profit institutions to enable broadband community networking in Canadian Aboriginal high cost serving areas (circa 1997 to 2007)
Joseph Ferenbok - The Identity Myth: Constructing the Face in Technologies of Citizenship
Martin Dowding - National Information Infrastructure Development in Canada and the U.S.: Re-Defining Universal Service and Universal Access in an Age of Techno-Economic Convergence
Felix Stalder - Making Money: Notes on Technology as Environment
Ph.D. Supervision (current):
Stephanie Perrin
Terry Costantino
Karen Smith
John Stevenson
Frank Winter - Connecting Saskatchewan: A Critical Analysis of Competing Discourses of the Knowledge-Based Economy/Society in Northern Saskatchewan
Masters thesis supervision (completed):
Bruce Harpham - The Role of Civil Society Orgainizations in the Net Neutrality Debate in Canada and the United States
Matt Wong - Investigating a Cooperative Model of Household Internet Provision (completed December 2006)
Krista Boa - Smart Card, Weak Effort: Public consultation and the Ontario Smart Card Project (completed September, 2003)
Year joined the iSchool:
1989 