Tobias Escher at the OII

From 1 – 3 April Berlin is again hosting re:publica a social media cum activist conference which is now in its third year and that attracts well over 1,000 people. This year’s line-up includes among others Lawrence Lessig (Code is Law, Creative Commons), Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia) und Cory Doctorow (boingboing.net). There will be a specialised [...]

It is the time of year again where we (as doctoral students of the Oxford Internet Institute) have the sudden urge to get out from our dark, only LCD screen-lit cellars of the institute into the real world. To this end we have been organising an OII DPhil trip for the second time now whose [...]

The Internet & Democracy workshop here in Oxford has been filled with very valuable presentations and discussions. Corinna di Gennaro, who was instrumental in setting this up, has a good summary on her blog. I presented results from the recent evaluation of usage and users of WriteToThem.com, a website by mySociety that allows UK citizens [...]

Happening just now: A two day workshop on the Internet and Democracy “Lessons Learnt and Future Directions”, organised jointly by the Berkman Center, the Oxford Internet Institute and the Reuters Institute. Of course this is not the first workshop on this topic but it brings together a brilliant array of speakers who are distinguished in [...]