Oxford Internet Institute

Oxford Internet Institute

The Oxford Internet Institute was founded as a department of the University of Oxford in 2001, as an academic centre for the study of the societal implications of the Internet. The current home in a building owned by Balliol College was formally opened in July 2003.

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Title	Description	People	Date	Captions
The Real-Time City? Big Data and Smart Urbanism	Rob Kitchin discusses how cities are being instrumented with digital devices and infrastructure that produce ‘big data’.	Rob Kitchin	3 March, 2014
New Media, New Civics?	Ethan Zuckerman explores contemporary anxieties about "a crisis in civics" and look at the idea that civics is changing along with digital media.	Ethan Zuckerman	3 March, 2014
Thoughts Towards a History of ICT4D - And Its Future Role	David Souter uses the history and development of ICT4D as a framework to critique ICT4D approaches and consider the relevance of ICTs and ICT4D to the post-2015 development agenda.	David Souter	27 February, 2014
How best to communicate with communities affected by disaster? Case Studies from Typhoon Haiyan	This seminar will investigate how different technologies were used by CDAC Network Members in the immediate response to Typhoon Haiyan, focusing particularly on how needs assessment data was collected, shared and acted upon.	Nicki Bailey	27 February, 2014
The Internet in a post-PRISM world	Dan McQuillan examines the Internet in a post-PRISM world, and asks if its power to tackle global poverty will be lost.	Dan McQuillan	12 February, 2014
Crowdsourcing and Development of Activity Systems: the Case of Emergency Response	Gregory Asmolov suggests applying the notion of activity systems and zones of proximal development, as conceptualized in Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT), to the field of ICT4D.	Gregory Asmolov	12 February, 2014
The Post-2015 Development Agenda: Implications for ICT4D Research	Richard Heeks explores new post-2015 development agenda and its implications for ICT4D (information and communication technologies for development) research priorities.	Richard Heeks	12 February, 2014
The Information Society Agenda: Prospects and Problems	Discussion of dominant approaches by intergovernmental agencies to information society policy and the prospects for introducing critical perspectives that acknowledge the power relations which inform information society strategies and actions.	Robin Mansell	16 January, 2014
ICTs, Innovation and Regulation in the Somali Territories	A seminar exploring technology and regulation in the Somali territories of the Horn of Africa. Despite weak or non-existent government institutions, innovation has flourished with local solutions to local challenges.	Abdirashid Duale	16 January, 2014
Humanitarian campaigns in social media: network architectures and Kony 2012 as a polymedia event	An assessment of the optimism surrounding the opportunities that social media offer for humanitarian action, drawing on analysis of the phenomenally popular and controversial Kony 2012 campaign.	Mirca Madianou	16 January, 2014
Disjunctures and Connections: Case Studies of How Techno-politics Make and Cut Networks	In a development context, the ways in which new media objects (eg ICTs) are defined in relation to other objects, people and institutions map out new figurations of power and connection, that revalue and recombine political agency.	Don Slater	16 January, 2014
Development 2.0 and beyond: Challenges for ICT4D in 2013	Dr Thompson addresses some of the opportunities and contradictions presented by ICT4D and considers some emerging ways in which ICT4D researchers may contribute to the field.	Mark Thompson	16 January, 2014