JRA4: Governance, Regulation & Standards

Kick-off Meeting

Brussels, 21-22 December 2011

Chris Marsden (Essex)

FP7-ICT-2011.1.6-288021 EINS

Network of Excellence in Internet Science

Audience Participation!
While you watch this PPT:
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send a short email about your experience with:

1.Standards bodies
1. What you did, what the result was, other actors (note SEA2 work ongoing)

2.Standards case study

1. Any unusual/counter-intuitive example - hold-ups, forum shifting 2. Examples of civil society involvement (and multiple hat wearing)

3.Standards literature
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Different literatures in each discipline Legal, social science, economic, comp.sci. etc/

Email cmars@essex.ac.uk Thank you!

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WP Objectives
Regulatory and governance mechanisms behind development of Internet standards.
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to draw lessons from social scientific analysis to ensure the appropriateness of the standards as the Internet gets deeper into the social fabric.

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Partners in JRA4
Total Effort 26.5 months (530 days) Socio-legal studies/coordination/deliverables
 ESSEX 90 days

Economics and game theory

 WARW 40 days

Inter-disciplinary information studies drawing on socio-economic and political analysis

    Total 430 days = 63% of research effort NEXA 80days, LU 60days, IMDEA 50days 40days: IBBT, Savoie, UPMC, Institute of Informatics and Telematics of CNR, Stockholm 20days: UNIBO, Delft  LSE 100 days (note reallocation from JRA6)  UiO 20 days  Oslo contribution relies on compilation of existing research/analysis

Draws on inter-disciplinary approaches

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Tasks in JRA4
R4.1 Overview of regulatory and governance methodologies R4.2 Cataloguing governance tools for standards R4.3 Standards body case studies R.4.4 Map New Participants in Standards Task R4.5 Cross-Mapping governance

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R4.1 Overview of methodologies

Essex, UPMC, Savoie, Warw, Oslo, NEXA, UNIBO, CNR, Stockholm, LSE

Develop multi-disciplinary catalogue of methodologies

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To aid better understanding of challenges to better participative decision-making, including open-source governance approaches e.g. open-source standards for hardware as well as software

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Task R4.2 Cataloguing governance tools

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UESSEX, NEXA, UoS, CNR

Development of tools that help Scientifically designed legitimate governance Towards a better understanding
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of needs and requirements for Internet design based on broad socio-political buy-in (or at least better informed acquiescence) in the design process and outcomes.

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 Goal not only to present and understand the various methodologies,

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but also clarify their standing, specific policy needs they address, gap analysis to understand growing legitimacy problems and potential solution or bypass.
1.various methodologies classified and understood.

1.Leads to regulatory governance taxonomy 2.drive governance tool development JRA4.2 3.based on dedicated use cases in Task R4.3 4.cross-mapping in Task R4.4

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Task R4.3 Standards body case studies

NEXA, LSE, UiO Construct a living catalogue:
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standards bodies and their functions. both telecoms and Internet standards,

Complex interplays and trade-offs between the various institutions

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design choices relating to software and hardware, to privacy, security, and extensibility.

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Task R4.3: Legitimacy Gap Lessons

Cases studies can represent ability to
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Develop study of governance and regulation

 of the Internet as a whole,  other rapidly developing technology-led sectors  with a potential legitimacy gap between  best practice design and  socio-political trust in expert design.

Essential governance questions identified

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R.4.4 Map New Participants in Standards Making

Civil Society, Wider Participation
 UNIBO, NEXA, LSE, MLS, LJU

Identify potential new participants success factors of differing approaches

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including alternative or similar examples, to the well-known US examples

     Creative Commons, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Free Software Foundation, Centre for Democracy and Technology, Free Press

within the European standards sphere.

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Task R4.5 Cross-Mapping governance

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UESSEX, UPMC, UoS, WARW, UoP, MLS

cross-mapping governance methodologies and policies by crossing them with,

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categories of non/human actors defining and executing them the layer at which they operate.

3-dimensional matrix analysed/assessed o for compliance with democratic values,

 e.g. transparency, legitimacy, accountability, fundamental rights.

Gap analysis may identify lacunae

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WP Action List for the 1st Year

Task R4.1: series of events and workshops
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with the relevant JRAs with external communities both on- and off-line.

Milestone R4.1 (M12) Initial outline of catalogues plus full draft of methodologies; Hypotheses for governance & regulation taxonomy

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Deliverable R4.1 Outline overviews of Tasks R4.1R4.4 M12

Full first overview of
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regulatory and governance methodologies, test candidate case studies for examination

Tentative hypotheses as to a governance and regulation taxonomy presented

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strawman for further refinement and analysis moving from Task R4.1/4.3 to explore within Task 4.2.

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Interdependencies with other WPs

Outcomes include strong collaboration with SEA2 on ICT standard-setting institutions Also JRAs dealing with standards making

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WP Impact
Outreach to social science researchers via longestablished connections to the
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European (EuroCPR), United States (TPRC), and international academic communities

 E.g. GIGANET, IAMCR, International Telecommunications Society

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Ultimate objective of JRA4

To disseminate and collaborate research methodologies in new methods of regulation including stakeholder dialogues and choices that affect the present and future Internets considering concerns from various stakeholders and design communities.
 E.g. participation, democratic values, network growth and complexity, interoperability, security, privacy

Note importance of close collaboration with SEA2

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Issues to be discussed and decided

1. How do the various sub-tasks fit together
 i.e. methodology development, stakeholder mapping, case studies

2. How are the practical elements of these tasks divided

 does the same person/team contribute to all of these tasks related to a specific set of case studies, or are they more separate?

3. How will workflow be organized

 e.g. linking case studies with analytic activities that follow

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