Suelette Dreyfus
| Suelette Dreyfus | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Australian |
| Occupation | Researcher, journalist, writer |
| Notable work | Underground |
Dr. Suelette Dreyfus is a technology researcher, journalist, and writer. Her fields of research include information systems, digital security and privacy, the impact of technology on whistleblowing, health informatics and e-Education. Her work examines digital whistleblowing as a form of freedom of expression and the right of dissent from corruption. She is a researcher and lecturer in the Department of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne, as well as the Principal Researcher on an international research project on the impact of digital technologies on whistleblowing.
Dreyfus' work in e-Health has focussed on the patient information experience in the health system and the role of technology in error incident reporting in hospital settings. She has co-invented innovative prototypes in information design for pathology reports with the aim of transforming them from simple lab information outputs, into multi-layered information tools. These tools would then allow doctors to improve communication with patients, and then patients with their families regarding the status of disease in progressive and chronic illnesses, such as diabetes. In such diseases patient adherence to lifestyle, exercise, diet and medication regimes can have a significant impact on diseases progression. Knowledge and understanding of disease status have been shown to improve adherence.
Her research in e-Education has focussed on using social media to teach foreign language to English-speaking primary school students, particularly for difficult languages that require more hours of practice such as Asian languages.
Dreyfus has written on the importance of protecting Freedom of Information access (FOI), the problems of information asymmetry and ‘tool asymmetry’ between the individual citizen and the state, and the trend of ‘security clearance creep’. She stated, ‘Information Systems are a good way to organize data, but they’re not a form of democratic, free and open government.’ She gave a speech to 300 senior civil servants in Australia on this topic at the ANZSOG annual conference in August 2015.
She is the author of the 1997 cult classic Underground: Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier. The book describes the exploits of a group of Australian, American, and British hackers during the late 1980s and early 1990s, among them Julian Assange who is credited as a researcher for the book.
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