United Kingdom – Oxford Internet Institute

Overall scope

The Oxford Internet Institute (OII) is part of Oxford University and is devoted to the study of the societal impact of the Internet with a mission to influence research agendas, policy and business practices in the UK and beyond.

R&D Scope

Its research is organised around the broad themes of how the Internet impact everyday life, governance and democracy, science and learning and studying the Internet itself.

Current projects include Intelligent, Persistent, Personalised Multimodal Interfaces to the Internet, Cybertrust, the tension between privacy and security in an e-society, eTRUST: e-democracy technologies and the problem of public trust, Fair Tracing Project, Internet governance, OpenNet Initiative: state-sponsored filtering of the Internet, Privacy Value Networks, Towards a Future Internet.

Expected impact

The Institute aims to impact the future of internet and its usage in many ways.

Involved constituency

Oxford University, Higher Education Council, a large number of sponsors.

ceFIMS

ceFIMS (FP7-258542) is funded by the European Commission’s 7th Framework Information Sociey Technologies (IST) Programme, in Objective 1.1 The Network of the Future.

ceFIMS

The ceFIMS project addresses fragmentation of ICT research between European Member States. ceFIMS is gathering knowledge of Member State-funded research to work towards consensus on problems and approaches at the Member State level.

ceFIMS

ceFIMS will produce a research roadmap to maximise synergies between EU and Member State investments in Future Internet research, establishing the basis for an ERA-NET+ on the Future Internet.

ceFIMS

© 2010 ceFIMs