Tobias Escher at the OII

Just a quick note so say that the OII Summer Doctoral Programme is currently taking place at our partner institute over in the US at The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. For two weeks it gathers PhD students involved in Internet research together with academics from the Oxford Internet Institute [...]

Rooted in a belief that modern information technologies can be a force for good, there have been a number of projects that wired up local communities. Usually that means providing Internet access for its residents and community mailings lists and so on to enable communication among the people living there. The most famous projects I [...]

Today it is both with a sense of pride as well as relief that I announce the publication of our Value for Money study for the National Audit Office that evaluates the current state of UK government online services. It is with pride because this report assembles a range of data on government web services [...]

In a recent post about the legality of rating sites such as RateMyTeachers and PatientOpinion I concluded: “Last but not least, the subject under public scrutiny does matter as professors might well be made to face personal criticism in their role as public figures while teachers and nurses might have to be treated differently.” Well, [...]