Design and Determination
is my contribution to the Ashgate book series Voices in Development Management.
It brings together these interests from a design perspective.

The Centre for Innovation, Knowledge and Development (IKD), an interdisciplinary research centre, which has been established by the Open University (OU) to build upon the OU's internationally recognised excellence in the areas of: biotechnology innovation and development; innovation and industry dynamics; knowledge management; entrepreneurship; social learning and public action; and design innovation.

The Odyssey Group is an open network of organisation researchers who meet in physical and cyber-space to discuss and enact the implications of the current generation of Information and Communication Technologies.

The proceedings of the2007 meeting on the theme of Accessibility, Tourism and Development hosted at the Open University will be published shortly by Rikkyo University Tokyo.

The Asia Pacific Technology Network (APTN) is based in London and provides access to international and UK companies and to government departments concerned with the economies of East Asia. Stephen Little is chairman of this company limited by guarantee.

The Management and Organizational Development in Europe (MODE), project is a two year cross-national collaboration wih the ATLAS experiment at CERN to investigate knowledge sharing and transfer.

The British Institute of Information Technology and Ecommerce (BITE), engages in consultancy, training and education in e-commerce and ICTs at practical and policy levels in Britain and beyond..

The International Federation For Information Processing Working Group 8.2 was established by IFIP in 1977 as a working group concerned with "the interaction of information systems and the organisation."

WG 8.2 conducts working conferences, in 2004 the meeting held in Manchester UK was a retrospective on research conducted since the 1984 Manchester conference.

Chatham House (RIIA), The Royal Institute of International Affairs is one of the world's leading institutes for the analysis of international issues. Chatham House also conducts joint meetings with APTN.

Asia Pacific Researchers in Organization Studies (APROS) has members from across the Pacific Rim and beyond. The most recent meeting, APROS-12, took place in New Delhi in December 2007.

Design Research Society (DRS) I have been a member of DRS since 1972. Currently I am a member of the DRS Council. The Society hold regular meetings and cooperates with a variety of partners in international conferences.