David Harrison’s presentation, “Universities and social networking: making sense out of nonsense“, explores the nature of technology initiated disruption exemplified in Web 2.0 and wraps-up our coverage of the Eduserv Foundation Symposium 2008.

David is Assistant Director of Information Services at Cardiff University and Chair of the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA), the body that represents higher education and further education in the provision and development of academic, management and administrative information systems.

David identifies some of the consequences of technology initiated disruption in his presentation and goes on to examine some of the effects and implications for service provision.