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The Oxford Internet Institute has around 35 faculty and support staff focused on achieving and maintaining excellence in teaching and research. The Institute is led by the Director, Professor Helen Margetts with Dr Victoria Nash as Director of Graduate Studies and Dr Ralph Schroeder as Director of Research.

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• 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).

• Wikipedia Workshop: Amman

  A forthcoming workshop on Middle Eastern Participation and Presence in Wikipedia (Amman, 11-12 April) will discuss the most significant barriers to participation in Wikipedia in the Middle East and North Africa.

• Borderlands (Digital Ones...)

  Laura Mann reflects on borderlands as centres in their own right, where new forms of governance can take shape: how does this help our understanding of digital divides, as ICT penetration in East Africa creates new intermediaries?

• 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).

• Scientists: Conservatives?

  "although physical scientists have led the way in using computers to analyse data, they are still fairly conservative when it comes to adopting new communications technologies": Recent OII work is covered by Physics World.

• Information Practices

  Physorg.com reports on the recent OII-authored RIN report on information practices which identifies the range of contemporary challenges facing physical science researchers in a fast-evolving information landscape.

Last updated on: 12 October 2011