Category: Governance & Security
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Crowdsourcing ideas as an emerging form of multistakeholder participation in Internet governance
Assessing the extent to which crowdsourcing represents an emerging opportunity of participation in global public…
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Using Wikipedia as PR is a problem, but our lack of a critical eye is worse
That Wikipedia is used for less-than scrupulously neutral purposes shouldn’t surprise us – our lack…
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Uber and Airbnb make the rules now — but to whose benefit?
Outlining a more nuanced theory of institutional change that suggests that platforms’ effects on society…
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Why are citizens migrating to Uber and Airbnb, and what should governments do about it?
What if we dug into existing social science theory to see what it has to…
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Iris scanners can now identify us from 40 feet away
Public anxiety and legal protections currently pose a major challenge to anyone wanting to introduce…
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Should we use old or new rules to regulate warfare in the information age?
Information has now acquired a pivotal role in contemporary warfare, for it has become both…
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Does a market-approach to online privacy protection result in better protection for users?
Examining the voluntary provision by commercial sites of information privacy protection and control under the…
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Will digital innovation disintermediate banking—and can regulatory frameworks keep up?
The role of finance in enabling the development and implementation of new ideas is vital—an…
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Designing Internet technologies for the public good
People are very often unaware of how much data is gathered about them—let alone the…
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Young people are the most likely to take action to protect their privacy on social networking sites
So are young people completely unconcerned about their privacy online, gaily granting access to everything…
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Monitoring Internet openness and rights: report from the Citizen Lab Summer Institute 2014
Informing the global discussions on information control research and practice in the fields of censorship,…
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Evidence on the extent of harms experienced by children as a result of online risks: implications for policy and research
If we only undertake research on the nature or extent of risk, then it’s difficult…