Internet Governance: affected by economic downturn? Discussion paper...
Will the financial crisis have a knock-on effect on the way the Internet is regulated and governed? How could the international push towards greater regulation of the financial sector spill over into...
View ArticleInternet, Politics, Policy 2010: Closing keynote by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Our two-day conference is coming to a close with a keynote by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger who is soon to be joining the faculty of the Oxford Internet Institute as Professor of Internet Governance and...
View ArticlePersonal data protection vs the digital economy? OII policy forum considers...
Catching a bus, picking up some groceries, calling home to check on the children – all simple, seemingly private activities that characterise many people’s end to the working day. Yet each of these...
View ArticlePublic policy responses to cybercrime: a new special issue from Policy and...
Cybercrime is just one of many significant and challenging issues of ethics and public policy raised by the Internet. It has policy implications for both national and supra-national legislation,...
View ArticleUncovering the structure of online child exploitation networks
The Internet has provided the social, individual, and technological circumstances needed for child pornography to flourish. Sex offenders have been able to utilize the Internet for dissemination of...
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Time for debate about the societal impact of the Internet of Things
The 2nd Annual Internet of Things Europe 2010: A Roadmap for Europe, 2010. Image by Pierre Metivier.On 17 April 2013, the US Federal Trade Commission published a call for inputs on the ‘consumer...
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The global fight over copyright control: Is David beating Goliath at his own...
Anti-HADOPI march in Paris, 2009. Image by kurto. In the past few years, many governments have attempted to curb online “piracy” by enforcing harsher copyright control upon Internet users. This trend...
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How effective is online blocking of illegal child sexual content?
The recent announcement by ‘Anonymous Belgium’ (above) that they would ‘liberate the Belgian Web’ on 15 July 2013 in response to blocking of websites by the Belgian government was revealed to be a...
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Staying free in a world of persuasive technologies
We’re living through a crisis of distraction. Image: “What’s on my iPhone” by Erik Mallinson Ed: What persuasive technologies might we routinely meet online? And how are they designed to guide us...
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Ethical privacy guidelines for mobile connectivity measurements
Four of the 6.8 billion mobile phones worldwide. Measuring the mobile Internet can expose information about an individual’s location, contact details, and communications metadata. Image by Cocoarmani....
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Exploring variation in parental concerns about online safety issues
Parents have different and often conflicting views about what’s best for their children, creating a significant challenge for designing positive interventions. Image: elementary school iPad Boot Camp...
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The challenges of government use of cloud services for public service delivery
Cloud services are not meant to recognize national frontiers, but to thrive on economies of scale and scope globally — presenting particular challenges to government. Image by NASA Goddard Photo and...
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Evidence on the extent of harms experienced by children as a result of online...
The range of academic literature analysing the risks and opportunities of Internet use for children has grown substantially in the past decade, but there’s still surprisingly little empirical evidence...
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Monitoring Internet openness and rights: report from the Citizen Lab Summer...
Jon Penny presenting on the US experience of Internet-related corporate transparency reporting. 根据相关法律法规和政策，部分搜索结果未予显示 could be a warning message we will see displayed more often on the Internet; but...
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Designing Internet technologies for the public good
MEPs failed to support a Green call to protect Edward Snowden as a whistleblower, in order to allow him to give his testimony to the European Parliament in March. Image by greensefa.Computers have...
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Will digital innovation disintermediate banking — and can regulatory...
Many of Europe’s economies are hampered by a waning number of innovations, partially attributable to the European financial system’s aversion to funding innovative enterprises and initiatives. Image by...
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Does a market-approach to online privacy protection result in better...
Even in the EU there is no particular interface-protection mandate for websites, for example when users want to interact with websites to control use of their personal data. Image of the ECJ by...
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Should we use old or new rules to regulate warfare in the information age?
Critical infrastructures such as electric power grids are susceptible to cyberwarfare, leading to economic disruption in the event of massive power outages. Image courtesy of Pacific Northwest National...
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How can big data be used to advance dementia research?
Image by K. Kendall of “Sights and Scents at the Cloisters: for people with dementia and their care partners”; a program developed in consultation with the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s...
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