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The Programme on Information and Communication Technologies
The Programme on Information and Communication Technologies (PICT) was set up in 1985 to conduct and disseminate research on the long-term economic and social issues posed by advances in information and communication technology. This social science research programme was sustained from 1985 through 1995 by two phases of research grants from the United Kingdom's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). PICT's six university research centres undertook a wide variety of research projects and activities over the ten-year duration of the programme. Through its workshops, conferences and forums, and through its extensive publications programme, PICT was able to bring the results of its research to the attention of government, policy makers, IT practitioners, and the public at large.
A two-volume synthesis of the PICT research has been published in Dutton, W. (1996), Information and Communication Technologies -- Visions and Realities (Oxford University Press), and Dutton, W. (1999), Society on the Line: Information Politics in the Digital Age (Oxford University Press). For further information about the PICT Centres, contact:
Brunel University: Centre for Research into Innovation,
Culture and Technology
(CRICT). E-mail Steve
Woolgar.
Edinburgh University: Research Centre for Social
Sciences (RCSS). E-mail Robin
Williams
University of Manchester Institute
of Science and Technology (UMIST): Centre for
Research on Organisations, Management and Technical Change (CROMTEC). E-mail
Rod Coombs
Newcastle University: Centre for Urban and Regional
Development Studies (CURDS).
E-maiI John Goddard
Sussex University: Centre for Information and
Communication Technologies within the
Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU). E-mail Robin Mansell
Westminster University: Centre for Communication and Information
Studies (CCIS).