Oxford Internet Institute

• New OII Project on Big Data

  A new OII project using big data for social science research aims to increase visibility, accessibility, and ease-of-use of the JISC UK Web Domain Dataset, a 30 terabyte web archive of the .uk country-code top level domain (ccTLD).

• Ten Years of the OII's Summer Doctoral Programme (SDP)

  "a bunch of great students doing great research having a fun time with some world-leading academics" - Vicki Nash looks back on ten years of the OII's Summer Doctoral Programme (SDP).

• Globalization vs Tradition?

  Mark Graham's paper: Perish or Globalise, on network integration and the reproduction and replacement of weaving traditions in the Thai silk industry, has just been published in ACME: Journal of Critical Geographies.

• University Outreach Awards

  We have launched a competition to find the most innovative outreach and public engagement activities carried out by European universities. The three winning entries will each receive a 5000 EUR prize (deadline: 15 March 2012).

• Relearning to Forget

  The recent overhaul of Europe's data-protection rules "would make people pause to think about whether it makes sense for data to remain in the handlers' hands," says Viktor Mayer-Schönberger in The Economist (27 January 2012).

• PASC Report: Government / IT

  The Commons Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) publishes its report on Government and IT that insists Government has still to address the challenges of "intelligent" procurement. Helen Margetts was an expert witness.

Last updated on: 28 October 2011