Shaping the Internet

Researchers: Ian Brown, William Dutton

New Project: the 'Towards a Future Internet' study will explore what a Future Internet should be: by researching the possible social, psychological, technological and economic options for its further development and their likely socio economic impacts. It runs until August 2010.

Current projects

• Towards a Future Internet
• OpenNet Initiative: state-sponsored filtering of the Internet
• StopBadWare.org
• Internet governance

Past projects

• Performance of distributed problem-solving networks
• FLOSSWorld: Free / Libre / Open Source Software
• Civil society participation in the World Summit for the Information Society (WSIS)
• Wireless technology for broadband Internet
• EICN working group on child protection and mobile phones
• New electronic document designs and systems
• Virtual communities of practice: the open source software community