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Workshop on Internet Trust, Reputation, Identity and Privacy

Submitted by ian.brown on Thu, 27/09/2012 - 08:33

Issues of individual trust in the use of personal data, the reputation of online services and users, and identity management tools are never far from the headlines. EINS is organising a one-day workshop on 4 December to bring together university and industry researchers working on these topics. Co-located with Social Informatics 2012 in Lausanne, it will have a particular focus on multidisciplinary perspectives that bring together researchers in the humanities and social sciences with mathematicians, engineering and physical scientists.

National Science Foundation interdisciplinary work on Internet architecture

Submitted by chris.marsden on Sat, 22/09/2012 - 13:43

The involvement of lawyers and economists as well as computer scientists (see Nebula team members: http://nebula.cis.upenn.edu/members.html) should be of great interest for the European Internet Science community. EINS member Jonathan Cave recently attended a NEBULA workshop at UPenn."In the summer of 2010, NSF funded four projects as a part of this program.

Internet Scientists author chapters in new 'Research Handbook On Governance Of The Internet'

Submitted by chris.marsden on Tue, 18/09/2012 - 15:40

Edited by Ian Brown, University of Oxford, UK: http://www.e-elgar.com/bookentry_main.lasso?currency=UK&id=14173 Contributors include JRA4 members Alison Powell, Lee Bygrave, Jonathan Cave and Chris Marsden.This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the latest research on Internet governance, written by the leading scholars in the field. With an international focus, it features contributions from lawyers, economists and political scientists across North America, Europe and Australia.

Recent Advances in Networking : Call for ebook chapters

Submitted by chris.marsden on Sun, 02/09/2012 - 20:58

Professors often rely on textbooks to teach undergraduate and graduate networking courses. While there are many good introductory textbooks, there are very few books on advanced networking topics that could be suitable to advanced graduate courses in networking. To fill this gap, SIGCOMM Education Committee launches a community project to develop a high-quality, open-source, edited ebook on “Recent Advances in Networking”.

Privacy standards workshop presentations

Submitted by ian.brown on Fri, 24/08/2012 - 07:34

We had a very interesting set of presentations and discussions at our workshop this week on privacy standards. The slides from the presenters are below — I will add others as they arrive. Thanks again to our speakers, and to Lee Bygrave and Kevin McGillivray for organising the venue.

1st EINS Summer School Presentations

Submitted by cristobal.cobo on Thu, 16/08/2012 - 15:22

 

Today we published some of the resources and presentations given at the Summer School in Oxford. Please click the image to see or download them. We also recommend to see the wiki Summer School Reading Lists.

Schaake: Stop Balkanizing the Internet

Submitted by chris.marsden on Fri, 27/07/2012 - 12:06

 Recent article by Marietje Schaake, Dutch Member of the European Parliament: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marietje-schaake/stop-balkanizing-the-internet_b_1661164.html?utm_hp_ref=tw(Note much research for this article provided by new JRA4/6 RA Ben)."Vint Cerf, one of the Internet's creators, recently said he could only have dreamt of the flourishing and innovative powers of the Internet.

JRA4/6 workshop Torino NEXA 10-11 September

Submitted by chris.marsden on Wed, 25/07/2012 - 21:19

JRA4 is organising an internal workshop in Torino at NEXA on 10 September, with guest speaker Rudolf van der Berg from the OECD, who will discuss regimes for regulating IP interconnection and M2M mobile communication. JRA6 is organising an internal workshop at the same venue with the same host on 11 September. Anyone not in these JRAs who wishes to attend should contact Chris Marsden, JRA leader, in the first instance.

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