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From: OII Events [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 06 October 2006 16:36
To: oii-news
Subject: OII News [2006.10.06]: OII News and Events for October
Importance: High
Dear friends and colleagues of the OII,
We hope you have found our regular Events updates useful over the last
couple of years. We are now moving towards a fortnightly newsletter,
bringing you the latest news and research activities at the OII, as well as
the familiar Events Diary. We hope you will welcome this change, and
continue to find these updates useful and interesting. As ever, feedback is
very welcome (email to: [log in to unmask] ).
William Dutton,
Director, OII
1. OII Events Diary
2. OII News
3. New Positions
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1. OII Events Diary
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The future of e-learning
Date: Mon 16 October
Speaker: Andrew Pinder, Chairman of the British Educational Communications
and Technology Agency (Becta)
Focus: What are the key challenges for building a technological and
institutional infrastructure for education in the 21st century?
Further information: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/details.cfm?id=72&pa=1
Downloading Democracy: Politics and the Internet
Date: Thurs 19 October
Speaker: Steve Schifferes, online journalist with BBC news
Focus: How do online audiences consume news? Can the web help overcome
concerns about declining political participation?
Further information: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/details.cfm?id=70&pa=1
Eros Unbound: Pornography and the Internet
Date: Thurs 26 October
Speaker: Blaise Cronin, Rudy Professor of Information Science at Indiana
University Bloomington
Focus: How has the Internet transformed the market for pornographic goods
and services, in terms of scale, scope and structure?
Further information: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/details.cfm?id=18&pa=1
To register for the above events, please RSVP to [log in to unmask]
Complete events listing and details: www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events
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2. OII News
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The OII continues to contribute to international debate on Internet
Governance, with a recent public discussion including contributions from
Markus Kummer (Executive Coordinator, Secretariat of the UN Working Group on
Internet Governance) and the Economist's Kenneth Cukier. Remarks by Kenneth
Cukier and a webcast of the discussion are available at:
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/details.cfm?id=20&pa=1
OII Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation, Jonathan Zittrain will
speak at 'The Road to Athens', a Nominet-organised event on the 9th October,
chaired by Nitin Desai (Chair of the Internet Governance Forum).
Further information: http://www.nominet.org.uk/news/latest/?contentId=3285
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3. New Positions
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The OII is looking for a full-time Survey Research Officer with training in
one or more of the social sciences and specialised experience and skill in
survey research and data analysis in an academic, government or business
setting. The Officer will work primarily on the conduct and analysis of the
Oxford Internet Surveys (OxIS). Closing date: 6th November.
Further information: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/newpositions.cfm?pa=1
OxIS project page: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/project.cfm?id=8&pa=1
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The StopBadware.org project is recruiting for two positions, both based at
the Berkman Center (Cambridge MA).
Project Coordinator/Online Organizer (StopBadware.org) Further information:
http://jobs.harvard.edu/jobs/summ_req?in_post_id=31511
Senior Software Engineer (StopBadware.org) Further information:
http://jobs.harvard.edu/jobs/summ_req?in_post_id=30552
Stopbadware project website: http://www.stopbadware.org/
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