William H. Dutton

I worked with several colleagues at the OII (Victoria Nash, Monica Bulger, and Alissa Cooper) to pen responses to Jeremy Hunt’s Open Letter, requesting feedback of relevance to the new communications bill. They were submitted under my name as director of the OII, but also as a Co-Principal Investigator of the ESRC Seminar Series, entitled [...]

Digital Policy Issues for the New Communications Bill A Meeting to be held as part of an ESRC Seminar Series entitled ‘Digital Policy: Connectivity, Creativity and Rights‘ Location: Oxford Internet Institute (OII) Seminar Room, 1 St Giles’, Oxford Time: 10.00-16.00 on 24 June 2011 An invited group of academics and practitioners will meet at the [...]

A new ESRC Research Seminar Series on Digital Policy: Connectivity, Creativity and Rights will be launched at University of Wales, Newport, on April 1 2011. This event ‘Digital Wales: Inclusive Creativity and Economy’ is hosted by the School of Art, Media and Design. The main project Web site is at: http://idl.newport.ac.uk/digitalpolicy/ The day features speakers [...]

My paper on ‘Networking Distributed Public Expertise: Strategies for Citizen Sourcing Advice to Government’ is one of a series of Occasional Papers in Science and Technology Policy, Science and Technology Policy Institute (TPI), Institute for Defense Analyses, Washington DC. I will post the abstract below and would welcome comments, directly or to this blog. Abstract [...]

The ESRC has awarded my colleagues and I support for a seminar series on ‘Digital Policy: Connectivity, Creativity, and Rights’. This will involve: me and colleagues at the OII, University of Oxford; Dr Gillian Youngs, the principal applicant, recently appointed to a professorship at the Newport School of Art, Media and Design at University of [...]

I will be on a panel at an Internet Society ‘INET’ event on the 29th of September 2010, entitled ‘The Internet Revolution: Opportunities, Threats and Challenges to your Business’. (I think ‘INET’ is simply a catchy phrase for an Internet meeting enabling colleagues to network. The Internet Society (ISOC) has been sponsoring INET conferences around [...]

Fifth Internet Governance Forum Vilnius, Lithuania, 14-17 September 2010 UNESCO Workshop 81 “Freedom of Connection – Freedom of Expression: The Changing Legal and Regulatory Ecology Shaping the Internet” Room 6,  Lithuanian Exhibition Centre LITEXPO, Vilnius 11:30-13:30, 14 September, 2010 Organizer: UNESCO This workshop is a follow-up of the well-attended discussion on Internet Censorship and Filtering [...]

The diffusion of so-called ‘three-strikes’ initiatives adopted by the copyright provisions of the UK’s Digital Economy Bill, and policies of other European nations, is going to be a serious set-back for privacy and freedom of expression. This is not the intention of lawmakers. To their credit, politicians of all parties in Britain, for example, believe [...]

This year’s Guardian Activate Summit (2010) will be entitled ‘Technology, Society and the Future: Changing the World through the Internet’, and be held on Thursday 1 July 2010, in London. It is not purely an academic conference, but some key academics are among the key speakers, such as our Web Science colleague, Professor Nigel Shadbolt. [...]

Anna Bradley, Chair of Ofcom’s Communications Consumer Panel, is visiting the OII on 6 May 2010. She will give an informal talk, from 16:30-17:30, in the OII Seminar Room at 1 St Giles. The panel has been active in a variety of issues, such as in focusing attention on actual versus advertised broadband speeds. Anna [...]