JRA4: Regulation, Governance,
and Standards
Network of Excellence in Internet Science (EINS)
2nd Review
Brussels, 4-5 February 2014
Žiga Turk, LJU, with inputs from partners
FP7-ICT-2011.1.6-288021 EINS
Network of
Excellence in
Internet Science
JRA4 Vision
 „To expose the regulatory and governance
mechanisms that have enabled the development
of Internet standards, and to draw lessons from
social scientific analysis in order to ensure the
continued relevance of the standards process as
the Internet becomes a multilingual mass market
artefact.“
 translation:
 "to understand regulatory process and its impact"
 "to contribute to its relevance and quality"
JRA4: Regulation, Governance, and Standards
2nd EINS Review, Brussels, 4-5 February, 2014
Presentation Contents
1. Networking, dissemination, impact
2. Deliverables, books and other results
3. Further work and conclusions
JRA4: Regulation, Governance, and Standards
2nd EINS Review, Brussels, 4-5 February, 2014
PART 1)
Networking, disseminarion, impact
 mobility of scientists
 engagement with the professional communities
and fora
 engagement in policymaking
 engagement in strategic thinking
JRA4: Regulation, Governance, and Standards
2nd EINS Review, Brussels, 4-5 February, 2014
Mobility
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Marsden to MIT/Wharton/Harvard June 2013
Guadamuz to US 2014 (BitCoin case study)
Antoniadis to CAM 2013
Upcoming:
 Bygrave (Oslo) to NEXA Q4 2014
 Charo del Genio (Warwick) to Houston 2014
 Marsden to UNIBO June 2014
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Engagement with professional
community
 Delivered formal Workshop for JRA4 at United
Nations Internet Governance Forum 21/10/2013
 Co-chairs Marsden/Marzouki,
 Cross-WP involvement: JRA6 David-Barrett, SEA2
Powell
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Engagement in policymaking
 Marsden paper presented to Director General’s Code
of Practice Agora on co-regulation 10 Dec 2013
 Marsden contributions towards ‘ConnectedContinent’
policy making with MEPs
 Turk's contribution to MEP's Digital Europe report
 Regular European Parliament requests to give
speeches and attend panels on e.g. Google anti-trust
settlement
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Engagement in strategic thinking
 because Internet is one of the major disruptions
 Turk contributing to ESPAS “The World in 2030”
study
 European Strategy and Policy Analysis System
 broader than JRA4, more on Internet Science and its
societal impact in general
 ESPAS has high level participation:
 EU: Comission (BEPA), Parliament, Council.
 USA: National Security Council.
 links to China, Russia.
 High inpact on EU and US policymaking
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2nd EINS Review, Brussels, 4-5 February, 2014
PART 2)
Achievements
 books
 blogs, conferences
 deliverables
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Achievements: Books
 Powell, Bygrave and Marsden each have chapters
relevant to their EINS work published
 in Brown, I. ed (2013) Research Handbook on Internet
Governance, announced on the EINS blog at
http://www.internet-science.eu/blogs/18-09-2012/399
 Marsden published with Ian Brown (JRA5 leader),
their book 'Regulating Code' (MIT Press, March
2013).
 Reference is made in the book to Internet science in the
concluding chapter on regulation and governance, and a
book tour of major universities and conferences is
scheduled for late spring 2013.
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Achievements: Blogs and conferences
 8 blog posts to EINS in 2013
 IGF 2013 - From Mantra to Metrics: Measuring MultiStakeholderism?
 Internet Design and Governance: LSE Seminar 22/11
On Friday, November 22
 ACM Web Science 2013 EINS organised a workshop on
"Internet Science and Web Science Synergies" with Serge
Fdida, Kavé Salamatian, Thanassis Tiropanis, Chris
Marsden, and Ian Brown.
 iGov2 Symposium 2013, Lee Bygrave organised the third
symposium of the iGov2 project in Oslo.
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Achievements:
D4.2 defined as "drafts of …
 catalogues and
 regulation governance taxonomy typologies
 developed from the tentative hypotheses presented
in DR4.1
 including case studies drawn from Tasks R4.4-4.5,
 examining multi-stakeholder governance, civil
society involvement, and the wider beta-user
communities".
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Achievements: D4.2
 Took literature study of
D4.1 on regulation as input
 (law, social science
approach)
 Created a conceptual model
of regulations and
regulatory processes
 (computer science,
organisational science
approach)
 Developed an on-line
repository
 technology
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2nd EINS Review, Brussels, 4-5 February, 2014
Generic regulation process model and
main actors
higher level
legal doc.
ethics and
morals
idef0 legend
actor
interest
control
source of
ligitimacy
input
output
process
existing
regultation
identification of
need
requirements
mechanism
design and
drafting
regulation
as proposed
adoption
regulation
as adopted
product or service
conforming product or service
use and
enforcement
regulation
use experience
monitoring
actor
affected
actor
consulted
actor
regulating
actor
enforcing
modification
proposals
actor
regulated
actor (any)
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Model implementation
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Because one size does not fit all:
Case studies
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Open Hardware Licensing,
Internet Addressing Infrastructure,
Open data standards,
Implementation of Net Neutrality
BGP (Border Gatweay Protocol) Governance
 to be detailed in D4.3
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PART 3)
Further work and conclusions
 Contribution to EINS roadmap
 Towards D4.3
 Conclusions
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Roadmap:
JRA4 contribution
 (internet) science makes
impact on society through
three main knowledge
transfer channels
 JRA4 contributed to external stakeholder
discussions in 2013
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innovation in industry
education in schools and
universities
 regulation … this is JRA4
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 JRA4 integrates
more fundamental JRAs
(1-3)
 with policy areas (e.g.
JRA5-6)
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 Deliverables D4.1-4.2 and
JRA4 publications provide
intellectual underpinning
for public engagement.
Council of Europe; European Parliament;
9th IDP; 8th International Conference of
Information Commissioners; United
Nations Internet Governance Forum; UN
Economic Commission for Latin America;
DG CONNECT Co-regulatory Agora, ESPAS
…
 There is confirmed close interest in
Internet Science from government and
corporate stakeholders.
 Policy actors are becoming significantly
more aware of the benefits of using
holistic scientific advice to address their
policy concerns.
JRA4: Regulation, Governance, and Standards
2nd EINS Review, Brussels, 4-5 February, 2014
Future Steps
 populate the on-line
catalogue
 detailing the case
studies
 recomendations on
regulatory
policymaking &
multistakeholder
standard setting
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 Continued
dissemination,
publication, outreach
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blog
Conferences ICIC
Berlin; IEEE SIIT; UN
IGF; WEBIST …
REFIT,
JRA4/5 seminar OXF
27 Feb before IETF 89
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Conclusions
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progressing according to plan
highly interdisciplinary
high visibility
high impact on policymaking and regulating
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2nd EINS Review, Brussels, 4-5 February, 2014
THE END
JRA4: Regulation, Governance, and Standards
2nd EINS Review, Brussels, 4-5 February, 2014
Response to Review
Network of Excellence in Internet Science (EINS)
2nd Review
Brussels, 4-5 February 2014
Žiga Turk, LJU, with inputs from partners
FP7-ICT-2011.1.6-288021 EINS
Network of
Excellence in
Internet Science
Combining JRA4-SEA2
 Extremely close cooperation – notably over ‘Internet
Governance Month’ October 2013 (Marsden/Powell)
 Workshop 21 October/panel discussion 22 November
 Unnecessary to merge given excellent ties
JRA4: Regulation, Governance, and Standards
2nd EINS Review, Brussels, 4-5 February, 2014
Co-organised activities
addressing review
 Own-initiative ‘responses’ to review
 (and internal) concerns
 integrating female researchers
 working with other JRAs.
 Meryem Marzouki co-chair IGF workshop
 JRA6 involvement: Tamas (OXF) to Bali
 Alison Powell (LSE Media Policy Project)
 SEA2 involvement – Internet Governance Month
 16 blog posts on Internet governance – 100,000+ views
 JRA3 involvement:
 Co-chairing WebSci’14 Paris workshop
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2nd EINS Review, Brussels, 4-5 February, 2014
Other responses
 Co-leader Žiga Turk
 overseeing D4.2 and D4.3
 Solves ‘issue’ of Prof. Turk’s ministerial responsibilities
in M1-14 of EINS
 Co-leadership working very well
 JRA members making significant progress on draft
case studies
 LSE, NEXA, Oslo, Ljubljana, Savoie
 Very constructive working relationships
JRA4: Regulation, Governance, and Standards
2nd EINS Review, Brussels, 4-5 February, 2014