RESEARCH QUESTION The main research question of the project is: How can international and multi-stakeholder forums effectively address transnational data governance concerns, promote open and trustworthy Internet policy objectives, and bridge the capacity divide between the Global North and the Global South in the context of newly enhanced satellite Internet capabilities? Through answering this question,…
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RESEARCH QUESTION This research asks how young people’s expectations of privacy in the digital world can be better realized in policy, and by decision-makers in general. The research takes place in Antigua & Barbuda, Australia, Ghana and Slovenia. The specific questions are: (1) What are young people’s expectations of privacy when it comes to the…
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RESEARCH QUESTION The question that is addressed in this research is: Can advanced AI methods (ML, NLP) be used to make the Internet more inclusive for communities in low-resource environments in the Global South such that local weather data combined with Internet-based global climate information become sharable beyond the Internet’s current boundaries and in people’s…
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RESEARCH QUESTION The question that is addressed in this research is: How can a decolonizing program for the European digital rights field be designed and implemented? The decolonizing program is co-designed by researchers and/or members from the digital rights field and social, economic and racial justice organizations, to address power dynamics in the field and…
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RESEARCH QUESTION The research questions are: What are the opportunities for the Internet in service delivery? What are the capacity gaps hindering the utilization of the Internet by government agencies in the effort to improve transparency and accountability in service delivery? The research takes place in Uganda. WHY IS THIS RESEARCH IMPORTANT? Despite having Internet…
Read moreRESEARCH QUESTION This research addresses the question of how private sector governance mechanisms interact with technology to produce trust and security on the Web. The project provides an independent assessment of Web PKI as a system of security governance. It explains and explores how it works, what actors are involved in it, how it is…
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RESEARCH QUESTION Divvi Up is a system developed to provide privacy-respecting metrics for COVID-19 exposure notification apps. This research focuses on discovering, designing, building, and testing to determine what is required in order to deliver Internet-scale privacy benefits across a wide range of use cases, with ease of use and accessibility as core attributes. The…
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RESEARCH QUESTION The project seeks to contribute to the body of research on the question of standards and fragmentation. The Project methodology research question is: How can automation contribute to the identification of standards proposals that seek to transform the Internet’s building blocks and splinter the network through standards? The policy research questions are: (1)…
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