OII | A Decade in Internet Time: Open Plenary Session

Date & Time:
16:30:00 - 18:30:00,
Thursday 22 September, 2011

About

On 22 September, the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) will be celebrating its 10th anniversary with a public plenary session. Our distinguished panel will be reflecting on the defining developments of the past ten years and debating the key challenges and opportunities which the next decade may bring. We hope you can join us for this special session and for the reception which follows.

Our panel for the afternoon includes Vint Cerf speaking on the Internet, Professor Dame Wendy Hall on the Web, Professor Manuel Castells on social research, Professor Eli Noam on policy research, and Andrew Graham on the contribution of the OII. Dame Stephanie Shirley, whose generosity and vision have played a key role in our successes to date, will be making closing remarks.

Speakers

Professor William H. Dutton

Senior Fellow, Advisory Board Member

Bill Dutton was the OII’s Founding Director, a Fellow of Balliol College and the first Professor of Internet Studies at Oxford University.

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Dr Andrew Graham

Senior Fellow, Founder

Andrew Graham is the former Master of Balliol College, University of Oxford. He was the driving force in establishing the OII, and its Acting Director until July 2002. From 2001 to 2011 he was the founding Chairman of the OII's Advisory Board.

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Professor Manuel Castells

Former Advisory Board Member

Manuel Castells is Research Professor at the Open University of Catalonia, in Barcelona. He also a University Professor and the holder of the Wallis Annenberg Chair of Communication Technology and Society at the USC Annenberg School of Communication

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Professor Eli Noam

Director, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI), Columbia Business School, New York

Dame Stephanie Shirley

Founding Donor, OII

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Vint Cerf

Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google

Professor Wendy Hall

University of Southampton

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