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

25 July 2025
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RESEARCH QUESTION  In the context of the new tech regulations being passed around the world demanding that digital products and services are built and work in ways that promote “children’s best interests”; the research objective is to explore and define what “children’s best interests” means and how this relates to what children want and trust….

Platform Mediation and The Verified Internet

25 July 2025
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RESEARCH QUESTIONS The research project explored the multifaceted role of platform verification, aiming to understand its implementation, impact, and future implications in the online environment. The research questions that guided this project explored several key areas. First, they question the specific role verification plays in distinguishing between “trustworthy” and “untrustworthy” sources online. The research also…

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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