RESEARCH QUESTION The research aims to provide a comprehensive picture of the manner in which social media platforms are used by Eritreans in the country and diaspora communities, including an analysis of the role of social media platforms in the Tigray conflict. The main research question is: What is the impact of social media platforms…
Read MoreRESEARCH QUESTION The research objective is to measure the economic impacts of dark patterns in the context of consumer data sharing in the US. Companies often design digital interfaces that manipulate or coerce users into actions they may not take otherwise. These designs are called “dark patterns” when they create consumer harm. The “economic impact”…
Read MoreRESEARCH QUESTION The research aims to answer three research questions: (1) What concepts of programming software in an environmentally friendly way (“Green Coding”) exist for software development in general? (2) What concepts of environmentally friendly software engineering processes are already in place in the Internet industry? and (3) How can Green Coding concepts be implemented…
Read MoreRESEARCH QUESTION This research addresses the question of how private sector governance mechanisms interact with technology to produce trust and security on the Web. The project provides an independent assessment of Web PKI as a system of security governance. It explains and explores how it works, what actors are involved in it, how it is…
Read MoreRESEARCH QUESTION The research questions are: What are the opportunities for the Internet in service delivery? What are the capacity gaps hindering the utilization of the Internet by government agencies in the effort to improve transparency and accountability in service delivery? The research takes place in Uganda. WHY IS THIS RESEARCH IMPORTANT? Despite having Internet…
Read MoreRESEARCH QUESTION The research asks how the work of mental health professionals is changing as they increasingly provide services through online digital platforms, and how such shifts impact therapeutic expertise, therapeutic labor, and professional practice. The project aims to understand how the work of mental healthcare professionals is changing as it moves to teletherapy and…
Read MoreRESEARCH QUESTION In order to further support the equitable increase of global Internet usage, this research project leverages the current Internet Poverty Index (IPI) — developed by World Data Lab (WDL) with support from the Internet Society Foundation — and upgrades its features to analyze and model with greater granularity the segments of the population…
Read MoreRESEARCH QUESTION The question that is addressed in this research is: Can advanced AI methods (ML, NLP) be used to make the Internet more inclusive for communities in low-resource environments in the Global South such that local weather data combined with Internet-based global climate information become sharable beyond the Internet’s current boundaries and in people’s…
Read MoreRESEARCH QUESTION Divvi Up is a system developed to provide privacy-respecting metrics for COVID-19 exposure notification apps. This research focuses on discovering, designing, building, and testing to determine what is required in order to deliver Internet-scale privacy benefits across a wide range of use cases, with ease of use and accessibility as core attributes. The…
Read MoreRESEARCH QUESTION The main research question is: How does Internet infrastructure reconfigure power relationships and resource dependencies, and how could it better serve the public interest? In order to answer the question, the research develops three research streams: environment, geopolitics, and standards. (1) The research on the topic of environment explores the relationship between natural…
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