RESEARCH QUESTION The main research question of the project is: How do content moderation systems operate in indigenous and other language contexts of the Majority World? To address this, the project explores three related sub-questions: (1) How are content moderation systems designed and implemented for social media users in South America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South…
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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,…
Read moreRESEARCH QUESTION The original primary research question was about the safety of EdTech used in US K12 schools, and the findings indicated that the vast majority of the examined technology shared student data with risky third parties. The present research aims to better understand the actual data being shared and answer additional questions from 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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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…
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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