Events
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Wednesday 17 March 2010 14:00 - 16:00
International Perspectives on Net Neutrality: A Policy Seminar
Speakers: Dr Ian Brown, Alissa Cooper, Tom Kiedrowski, Chris Marsden, Dr Alison Powell and Leslie Regan Shade
This policy seminar provides three complementary assessments of the relationships between advocacy, rulemaking, and legislation around Net Neutrality, based on data from Canada, the United States, and the UK.
Monday 29 March 2010 16:00 - 17:30
Reinventing Government of the People: Exploring NZ experiences with Citizen-Centric Government
Speakers: Professor Miriam Lips
This presentation looks into experiences with citizen-centric public sector innovation in New Zealand in order to explore potential characteristics and conditions for citizen-centric government.
Wednesday 14 April 2010 10:30 - 12:00
Speakers: Dr Lucy Bernholz, Professor Jenny Harrow and Dame Stephanie Shirley BSc, CEng, FREng
For charitable organizations and initiatives, the Internet provides the opportunity to reach more people in more direct and personal ways. Are they grasping this opportunity?
Wednesday 14 April 2010 12:30 - 16:30
Unleashing the Potential of e-Philanthropy: Policy Forum
Speakers: Dr Lucy Bernholz, Jon Brooks, Professor William H. Dutton, Sharath Jeevan and Dame Stephanie Shirley BSc, CEng, FREng
For charitable organizations and initiatives, the Internet provides the opportunity to reach more people in more direct and personal ways. Are they grasping this opportunity?
Friday 30 April 2010 09:00 - 17:00
Speakers: Dr Annamaria Carusi, Luciano Floridi, Dr Marina Jirotka, Kieron O'Hara, Dr Tim Regan and Professor Yorick Wilks
This seminar aims to contribute to the scope and agenda of Internet Ethics at a time when it is emerging as a research subject. We aim to identify, articulate and deliberate about the ethical issues present in the technology and for its users.
Monday 10 May 2010 16:30 - 18:00
Authentic Assessment in the era of Social Media: ideas and applications from Internet Communications
Speakers: Matthew Allen
The emergence of Web 2.0-enabled social media online provides a new opportunity to develop assessments that match with, and draw upon students' engagement with online knowledge networking, creating new possibilities for 'authenticity' in assessment.
Wednesday 7 July 2010 18:30 - 21:00
Lovelace lecture 2010: What Will A Companionable Computational Agent Be Like?
Speakers: Professor Yorick Wilks
Yorick Wilks, winner of the Lovelace medal, will give the 2010 Lovelace Lecture on the future of the Internet: the Semantic Web and the possibility of Companion-like interfaces.
Monday 12 July 2010 17:00 - 18:30
Oxford Lecture: What Will A Companionable Internet Agent Be Like?
Speakers: Professor Yorick Wilks
Yorick Wilks, winner of the Lovelace medal 2010, discusses Companion-like interfaces. What should a Companion know? How can it gain and use the knowledge? What are the social implications? What will happen to their unique knowledge of us when we die?
Thursday 16 - Friday 17 September 2010
Internet, Politics, Policy 2010: An Impact Assessment
Speakers: Professor Patrick Dunleavy, Professor Arthur Lupia and Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
This conference will subject the relationship between the Internet, Politics and Policy to multi-disciplinary scrutiny. It organised along twin tracks, policy and politics.
Wednesday 24 November 2010 14:00 - 16:00
Departmental Open Day for Students
Prospective Masters and Doctoral students are invited to find out more about the department, and to meet the Director of Graduate Studies, the MSc course convenor, research faculty and students.
Last updated on: 15 March 2010