Satellite Internet: Trust and Data Governance

25 July 2025

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,…

Designing & Defining a Digital World in Children’s Best Interests, Phase 2

25 July 2025

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…

TIBaLLi: Making AI Work for Internet Inclusiveness in the Global South

25 July 2025
Illustrative image. Data driven mindset concept

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…

Collective (re)evolution: towards a decolonising program for the digital rights field in Europe

25 July 2025
World Business Background

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…

Exploring the opportunities for Internet usage in fostering Transparency and Accountability within Government agencies in Uganda.

25 July 2025
Project team members

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…

Building Divvi Up, a system for privacy-respecting statistics at scale.

25 July 2025
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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…

Internet Standards Observatory: Monitoring standards to prevent fragmentation

25 July 2025

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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