Final Brussels workshop
August 28th, 2010
In June we held our final project workshop in Brussels. You can now read our report of the proceedings.
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MIT workshop report
June 14th, 2010
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Here is a short report on the expert workshop we held at MIT earlier this year. Many thanks to the participants for their time and for contributing their notes on the event.
Tokyo expert workshop
June 8th, 2010
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Image: Mac Funamizu
Our third and final expert workshop happened last month at Keio University in Tokyo. It followed the format of March’s event at MIT, with twenty invited experts from east Asia analysing our draft future scenarios and their implications for future Internet research. Thanks to team member Prof. Motohiro Tsuchiya and his Keio colleagues for putting this together. You can now read his report on the event.
Interim report published
May 17th, 2010
We have now completed our interim report. This contains a wealth of information on the project so far, including the results from the first round of our online Delphi survey and our nearly-finalised scenarios. We look forward to your comments!
MIT workshop slides
March 18th, 2010
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Our MIT expert workshop went very well earlier this week. Thanks again to our participants: David Clark, Karen Sollins, William Lehr (all MIT CSAIL), John Wroclawski (University of Southern California), Karmen Guevara, Chris Marsden (University of Essex), Andrea Matwyshyn (University of Pennsylvania), David Reed (MIT Media Lab), Atanu Ghosh, Ken Carlberg (SAIC), Michael Geist (University of Ottawa), Eddan Katz (EFF) and Andrew Odlyzko (University of Minnesota). (Jonathan Zittrain was unavoidably detained, but happily now seems to be on the mend!)
Here are the slides I used to introduce the event:
Towards a Future Internet workshop
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We will be posting a short summary of the event once it is written.
Talking net neutrality at EuroCPR
March 1st, 2010
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I’m looking forward to the 25th annual European Communications Policy Research Conference in Brussels later this month. My colleague Dr Alison Powell will be presenting the paper we have co-authored with Alissa Cooper on US and UK discourses of network neutrality. This is timely, since net neutrality is a key policy variable in our Future Internet scenarios. I will also be responding to a paper on identity as a concept for policy design.
MIT expert workshop
March 1st, 2010
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Later this month MIT are kindly hosting our second expert workshop. Twenty invited participants from across the Americas will be analysing future Internet trends and technology based on the draft scenarios we are developing around Europe’s future Internet needs.
Many thanks to Karen Sollins and Sue Perez for facilitating, and to all of our participants for sharing their expertise. It’s exciting to be running this Future Internet event at one of the birthplaces of the ARPANET.
You can read a draft report on our first expert workshop, held last September in Brussels with a similar number of European experts. In May we will be holding our third and final expert workshop in Tokyo.
Agenda
| 0900-0930 | Welcome and overview of project |
| 0930-1000 | In pairs/threes: review of four scenarios |
| 1000-1030 | Whole-group discussion (plenary room) |
| 1030-1045 | Coffee break |
| 1045-1230 | In three groups: isolating the key social, economic, technical scenario trends, and identifying their inter-relationship. How does the Internet need to develop to support positive trends and minimise negative trends? |
| 1230-1300 | Sandwich lunch |
| 1300-1315 | Groups report back |
| 1315-1400 | Plenary discussion |
| 1400-1415 | Overview of European Commission Future Internet actions |
| 1415-1530 | In three groups: identifying Internet-focused R&D and policy actions that promote positive trends and minimise negative trends identified earlier in day |
| 1530-1545 | Coffee break |
| 1545-1600 | Groups report back |
| 1600-1630 | Plenary discussion |
Workshop report
October 9th, 2009
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Last month we held a small workshop in Brussels to draw on the knowledge of a number of external experts for the project. Here is a short report of the event — all comments welcome!
State of the Art report
August 8th, 2009
As promised, here are the second and third parts of our state of the art report on Internet development. Almost done now, but still open to your thoughts and comments.
State of the Art report part 2
State of the Art report part 3
Internet Development across the Decades
July 23rd, 2009
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We’ve been making progress on our state-of-the-art report on the development of the Internet, and how we got here — as a means to help us understand where we are going next. Here is part 1 of the report. Parts 2 and 3 will be coming over the next week. All comments welcome!