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

25 July 2025
An illustrative photo of a woman with a cellphone to show Identification and privacy in context of modern digital technologies.

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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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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Digital vulnerability perceptions among migrants in transit and its influence on decisions during their trajectory

25 July 2025
Migrants Walk Alongside the Railroad Tracks After Dismounting from the 'La Bestia' Train, Which They Rode Through Mexico to Reach the Mexico-U.S. Border - Chihuahua, Mexico

RESEARCH QUESTION  This research is a case study on the migrants crossing the Mexico-US border. The objective is to better understand how self-perceptions of digital vulnerability to disinformation and surveillance are formed during the migratory journey and to what extent it affects decision-making regarding the use of the Internet.  The questions that are addressed in…

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US K12 EdTech Safety Benchmark Findings & Data Publication

25 July 2025

RESEARCH 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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Community-Centered Sovereign Language Technologies for Online Knowledge Repositories

25 July 2025
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The Effect of Social Media Platforms on Neglected Countries and Diaspora Communities: An Investigation into the Eritrean Case

25 July 2025
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Governing Identity Online: Nations and Technologists Defining Who’s Who?

25 July 2025
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