Diane Whitehouse is a social scientist whose work has
focused on the social, organisational, and ethical
aspects of ICT.
She is a Former Scientific Officer with
10 years of working experience for DG Information Society and Media, European
Commission where she was in charge of the organisation
of the evaluation processes, project hearings and managing projects on the
European Commission's side under FP5, FP6 and other programmes.
While in the European Commission, among a variety of eHealth
policy commitments, she ensured the Implementation of the eHealth
action plan, followed the progress of the i2010 subgroup on eHealth
and organised the annual high-level eHealth conferences from 2004 through to 2007.
She is now a partner in The Castlegate Consultancy, a UK-based policy and systems
analysis and design group.