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.
Internet Governance
Our research on Internet governance is complemented by a programme of seminars, forums and conferences. This page provides links to these events, and also to publications, webcasts and other resources arising from them.
Many events were organised as part of our work on civil society participation issues relating to the World Summit for the Information Society (WSIS): the WSIS project website provides a background to WSIS, and links and resources.
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.
Senior Fellow
Jonathan Zittrain is the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Former Research Fellow
Professor Ian Brown was Professor of Information Security and Privacy at the OII. His research is focused on surveillance, privacy-enhancing technologies, and Internet regulation.
Former Visiting Associate
Desiree Miloshevic is International Affairs and Policy Adviser at Afilias. She has participated actively in the areas of DNS policy and Internet governance, including work as an expert technical and policy consultant for new top-level domains.
What aspects of the Internet need to be governed? How effectively are ICANN, the IETF and the ITU dealing with the key issues of Internet governance? Session introduced and chaired by Ted Nelson.
With Professor Jonathan Zittrain
Keynote by Jonathan Zittrain at the 2005 Cybersafety Conference, focusing on the complex web of issues, assumptions and trade-offs involved in improving online safety and security at a personal, national and international level.
Internet telephony, Internet TV and other applications are causing the old network service providers to lose revenue: we can foresee the severe weakening of the operators of today's Internet infrastructure. Who will then operate the Internet?
30 September 2020
17 April 2018
5 April 2018
15 June 2017
Associated Press, 10 April 2021
Facebook is showing different job ads to women and men in a way that might run afoul of anti-discrimination laws, according to a new study.
Vice, 12 August 2020
The removal of nearly 200 links from Google search in Germany about a princess’ drunken rampage in Scotland raises questions about who has the 'right to be forgotten.'
The Guardian, 07 February 2020
There are many reasons to fret about our relationship to technology, not least of which is the way smartphones, and their slot machine-like apps, have hooked us so thoroughly
The Telegraph, 13 December 2019
Pouya Bakhtiari could barely contain his excitement as he sat in gridlocked traffic on the motorway between Tehran and his home city of Karaj.