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Sent: 07 May 2009 17:05
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Subject: OII News [2009.05.07]: New Fellows / NAO Report / Trust
Dear friends and colleagues,
We are pleased to be welcoming two new Research Fellows to the OII in October: Dr Mark Graham (Trinity College, Dublin) and Greg Taylor (University of Southampton). Mark's research centres on the economic, social and spatial effects of technology, and Greg's focuses on the microeconomics of marketplaces that exist on, or are mediated by the Internet. Both candidates complement our current faculty, building on and extending our existing research areas, such as into international development and the economics of information.
Forthcoming events at the OII will be covering a wide range of topics, including globalisation, urban planning, blogging, artificial Learning Companions, social networking and intellectual property rights (see Events Diary). The OII/SCL 'Internet, Law and Society' Lecture Series continues with Jonathan Zittrain (19 May) on 'The Future of the Internet: Private Sheriffs in Cyberspace' and Daniel J. Solove (25 June) on 'The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet' .. both to be held in London. Responses to these lectures will be invited from lawyers and social scientists in order to offer a broad range of perspectives. Audience discussions will follow.
We are also pleased to announce that renowned economist Hal Varian (UC Berkeley, but currently serving as Chief Economist at Google) will be giving a lecture at the OII on 23 June 2009: more details to follow.
Best wishes,
Bill Dutton
Director
1. Events Diary: May / June
2. New NAO Report: Communicating with Customers
3. Trust 2009 Conference Keynote Webcasts
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1. Events Diary: May / June
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Fri 8 May:
JP Singh: Negotiation and the Global Information Economy
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/details.cfm?id=256
Mon 11 May:
Delia Baldassarri: Social Networks, Interpersonal Influence and Political Polarization
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/details.cfm?id=257
Mon 18 May:
Wojciech Gryc: Political Blog Networks and the US Presidential Election
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/details.cfm?id=257
Tues 19 May:
Jonathan Zittrain: The Future of the Internet: Private Sheriffs in Cyberspace
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/details.cfm?id=252
Mon 25 May:
Robert Goudie: How Much Does an Infection Tree Tell Us About a Contact Network?
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/details.cfm?id=257
Thurs 28 May:
Learning Companions and Pedagogical Agents: Future Trends and Possibilities
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/details.cfm?id=258
Mon 1 June:
Martin Everett: Modelling Core-Periphery Networks
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/details.cfm?id=257
Thurs 4 June:
Marcus Foth: The Second Life of Urban Planning
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/details.cfm?id=245
Mon 8 June:
Liesbeth Mercken: Dynamics of Adolescent Friendship Networks and Smoking Behaviour
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/details.cfm?id=257
Mon 15 June:
Nick Harrigan: Why Isolates Cooperate and the Insiders Defect: Social Capital as an Incentive to Free Ride
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/details.cfm?id=257
Thurs 18 June:
Thomas Hoeren: The EU Database Protection Directive: Intellectual Property Rights and Public Access to Information
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/details.cfm?id=228
Thurs 18 June:
Jeremy Sutton: Chaos Versus Order: The Role of Entropy in Portraiture
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/details.cfm?id=232
Mon 22 June:
Launch of the 2009 OxIS Report
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/microsites/oxis/events/
Tues 23 June:
Hal Varian Lecture (details tbc)
Thurs 25 June:
Daniel J. Solove: The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/details.cfm?id=255
All the Events:
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/
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2. New NAO Report: Communicating with Customers
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The National Audit Office (NAO) has today published a report on information exchange in benefits delivery: Department for Work and Pensions: Communicating with Customers, produced by a joint OII-LSE research team led by Professors Helen Margetts (OII) and Patrick Dunleavy (LSE).
Dept for Work and Pensions: Communicating with Customers
http://www.nao.org.uk/publications/0809/communicating_with_customers.aspx
The report found that while the Department has significantly changed the way in which it provides information in recent years, with a growth in the use of telephone and the Internet, there is still progress to be made in moving services online.
Professor Helen Margetts said: "The Department could do more to capitalise on the potential of the Internet. It is not yet possible to apply for most benefits on-line and only 0.2 per cent of all citizen contacts are made electronically, even though 38 per cent of DWP customers are enthusiastic about online services. Benefits-related information is now provided via the Directgov website, but users taking part in experiments run at the Oxford Internet Institute found information in some areas difficult to find."
NAO Press Release [7 May 2009]
http://www.nao.org.uk/whats_new/0809/0809421.aspx
Press Association: Online form saves £9m a year [7 May 2009]
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5imgWL2JM9Ch6Y5kCgka_cLZ1WBbg
About Helen:
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/faculty.cfm?id=2
Government on the Web (Research):
http://www.governmentontheweb.org/
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3. Trust 2009 Conference Keynote Webcasts
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How do we build trustworthy hardware, and how can we use that to increase the trustworthiness of broader distributed computation? In two Keynote talks from the recent TRUST 2009 Conference, Professors Eugene H. Spafford and Sean Smith question some assumptions related to computer architecture, the definitions of security, and how best to build trusted systems:
TRUST 2009 Conference Keynote Webcasts
http://webcast.oii.ox.ac.uk/index.cfm?view=Webcast&ID=20090406_279
Conference co-organiser (and OII Senior Research Fellow) Dr Ian Brown has just had the following papers published on wider questions of security and the Internet:
Brown, I. and Korff, D. (2009) Terrorism and the proportionality of Internet surveillance. European Journal of Criminology 6(2) 119-134.
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1261194
Brown, I. (2009) Regulation of converged communications surveillance. In: B.J.Goold and D.Neyland (eds) New Directions in Surveillance and Privacy. Willan Publishing, pp. 39-73.
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1261192
He has also been interviewed by New Media Knowledge about data protection and identity online: Oxford Internet Institute Sets Out the Privacy Threats in 2009 [30 April 2009]
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/about/press/coverage.cfm
About Ian:
http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/brown/
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