
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.
The KNetworks Project is focused on the creation of a permanent network of excellence, based on Information Technologies that enable the participating entities to collaborate, share and profit from a range of bottom-up innovations. The KNetworks Project is fully complementary and articulated with other initiatives implemented at several levels, as well as compatible with national and community policies. The project studies the conditions and requirements for the creation of the European Knowledge Centre (EKC) in the Atlantic Area. This initiative is an open network based in the Atlantic area with a main interest in the fields of: e-government, innovation, knowledge transfer, technology, the Internet, collective intelligence, future and the creation of knowledge. KNETWORKS project foster the creation of a strong knowledge sharing and dissemination Network in the Atlantic Area to promote the exchange of Good Practices and implementation strategies for building and exploiting a 21st Century Knowledge and Information Society (KIS).
This project is a partnership between Management Center for the Electronic Government Network (CEGER) – The Management Center for the Electronic Government Network in Portugal, CNEL/PT – Technology Plan, the University of Cardiff, the University of Toulouse II – Le Mirail, Fundación Universidad da Coruña – FUAC, and the Universidad de Cantabria. This initiative is under the strategy of the “Atlantic Area Operational Program” (AAOP) and is supported by the European Territorial Cooperation “Atlantic Area Programme”.
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
Eric T. Meyer is a Senior Fellow of the Oxford Internet Institute. His research looks at the changing nature of knowledge creation in science, medicine, social science, arts, and humanities as technology is embedded in everyday practices.
Former Research Fellow
Cristobal Cobo coordinates research on innovation, open knowledge initiatives and future of learning. Currently he works on Networks of Excellence on Internet Science and OportUnidad, both project founded by European Commission.