2nd Review Meeting
Brussels, 4-5/2/2014
Leandros Tassiulas
(CERTH)
FP7-ICT-2011.1.6-288021 EINS
Network of
Excellence in
Internet Science

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Foster multidisciplinarity (inclusion of more social scientists)
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WP co-leaderships between one social and one computer scientist
WP restructuring
 Give priority to social scientists under the EINS open call
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Foster collaboration across and within WPs
 Manage allocated resources more efficiently
 Resolve the issue of non contributive partners (e.g. Technicolor)
 Provide a single list of publications by the network
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Foster gender diversity
 Promote women in leadership roles
 Through EINS open call
 Invite active women researchers in EINS events
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Improve Involvement and Role of External Advisory Committee
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Next EINS conference more inclusive, interactive, engaging, productive and better promoted on social media
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Individual WP comments
2nd EINS REVIEW Brussels, 4-5/2/2014

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WP multidisciplinary co-leaderships already on board: (social scientists in blue)
 JRA1: Kave Salamatian (computer scientist-UoS) and Tamas David-Barrett
(economist - OXF)
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JRA2: Clare Hooper (computer scientist-SOTON) and Jonathan Cave
(economist-WARW)
JRA3: Thanasis Tiropanis (computer scientist-SOTON) and Federico Morando
(economist with further studies on policy-NEXA)
JRA4: Chris Marsden (lawyer-SUSSEX) and Ziga Turk (computer scientist-LJU)
JRA5: Anne-Marie Oostveen (social scientist-OXF) and Ian Brown (computer scientist-OXF)
JRA7: Heiko Niedermayer (computer scientist-TUM) and Marc Rouncefield
(sociologist-ULANC)
JRA8: Bart Lannoo (computer scientist-iMinds) and Laura Sartori (sociologist-
UNIBO)
SEA2: Heiko Niedermayer (computer scientist-TUM) and Alison Powell (social scientist-LSE)
2nd EINS REVIEW Brussels, 4-5/2/2014

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In order to engage more social aspects and outreach to more disciplines :
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JRA2 and JRA3 have been restructured
 New leadership experienced in highly interdisciplinary collaborations, particularly those related to Internet Science.
 New content , engaging more social aspects
 New deliverables (many of them as online repositories to outreach external communities)
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For the sake of outreaching:
 3 JRA2 and 2 JRA3 deliverables will be online providing design methods and experimental and empirical evidence base for Internet Science
(datasets and tools) even after the end of the project and appropriate community engagement mechanisms will be used
 Preliminary version: http://www.internet-science.eu/tools
 2 JRA2 submitted deliverables, namely D2.1.1 and D2.4.1 have been resubmitted as improved versions involving more disciplines
 Connection with open call projects ( REVITAL, MORFEO, CONTROPEDIA )
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Open Call Evaluation Criteria fostered multidisciplinarity :
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Multidisciplinary considerations , i.e., involvement of different disciplines in the consortium (in case of mono-applicant submissions, involvement of different disciplines members of the same applicant organisation in the proposal)
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Involvement of new participants (outside EINS)
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Relevance to the call
 Be in line with the spirit of a NoE, aiming for instance at promoting
ICT/non-ICT research integration , explore new inter-disciplinary research areas , enhance research coordination and networking,
 Being at the intersection between humanistic and technological disciplines
 Improve and bring new knowledge to Internet Science areas that are not sufficiently covered at present
 Being beneficial to society
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8 successful proposals, all multidisciplinary
 14 new partners and 1 new department from LSE
 9 non-ICT partners:
• Max Planck Institute for Human Development
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London School of Economics and Political Sciences- Management Dpt
Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques
• University of Amsterdam, New Media & Digital Culture
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Politecnico di Milano, DensityDesign
University of Crete, Psychology Department
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School of Political Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
SARDEX
• International Network for Urban Research and Action
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New expertise brought on: Media, Design, Social networks
Policy and regulation, Mathematics, Psychology and
Cognition, Social Geography, Urban Planning, Political
Sciences, Technology Management
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Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT)
AIT
Energy
AIT
Mobility
AIT
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AIT
/Digital Preservation
AIT
Digital Memory Eng. Crisis & Disaster
Management
Smart Grid eMobility eHealth/ telemedicine
Open & Big Data Environmental
Management
Information- and communication infrastructure
ICT Infrastructure
Energy
Bring expertise in the fields of eHealth, eEnvironment, eMobility, eEnergy with a multi-disciplinary research focus
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WP leaders indicated non contributive partners
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Non contributive partners were contacted to respond
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Based on the responses several resources have been re-allocated to those partners that could commit to take over certain tasks and responsibilities
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The biggest part of Technicolor’s budget was reallocated to various JRAs to support co-leadership and specific tasks
2nd EINS REVIEW Brussels, 4-5/2/2014

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A list of EINS network publications from the beginning of the project is available online: http://www.internet-science.eu/biblio/papers
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Can be accessed:
 by author: http://www.internet-science.eu/biblio/authors
 by keywords: http://www.internet-science.eu/biblio/keywords
 by JRA: http://www.internet-science.eu/biblio/keywords?f[keyword]=J
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Can be sorted by year: http://www.internet-science.eu/biblio/papers?order=biblio_year&sort=asc
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Cooperation and co-organised events among WPs
 JRA2/JRA3/JRA4/JRA5: Internet Science and Web Science synergies workshop at WebSci ’13, Paris, May 2013
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 JRA4/JRA6/SEA2 : Workshop at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) titled
“From Mantra to Metrics: Measuring Multi-Stakeholderism?”, October 2013
 JRA4/SEA2 : Internet Governance Month, London, October 2013
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Planned:
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Cross-JRA workshop, Bologna, 11-13 June, 2014
JRA4/5/SEA2 seminar on “Protecting Internet communications from pervasive monitoring”, 27 Feb. 2014
JRA5/6 event related to ‘Being There: Humans and Robots in Public Space’ project
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JRA4/JRA5/JRA6/SEA2: Internet Design and Governance seminar, LSE,
London, November 2013
JRA7/8 workshop at DRCN 2014 on Understanding the inter-play between sustainability, resilience, and robustness in networks, Ghent, April 2014
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Mobility program provided not only members but also affiliates the opportunity to:
 Collaborate with members from other departments and disciplines
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During 17 complete mobility positions, participants have:
 collaborated on papers, talks and JRA tasks
 initiated long-term collaboration (e.g. Horizon
2020)
 co-supervised PhD students
 disseminated their research
2nd EINS REVIEW Brussels, 4-5/2/2014

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Women in EINS Leadership Roles:
 Clare Hooper (JRA2 co-leader)
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Anne-Marie Oostveen (JRA5 co-leader)
Laura Sartori (JRA8 co-leader)
Sorana Cimpan (IA2 co-leader)
Alison Powell (SEA2 co-leader)
Stephanie Albiero (SEA3 co-leader)
Anna Satsiou (SEA4 & MA co-leader)
 Stavroula Maglavera (MA co-leader)
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Through EINS open call:
 Athena Vakali (REVITAL co-ordinator)
 Wifak Gueddana (CPiOSC co-ordinator)
 Ileana Apostol (task leader of COMPARE)
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Chairing EINS Workshops and Sessions:
 Meryem Marzouki (From Mantra to Metrics workshop)
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Wendy Hall (Internet Science and Web Science synergies workshop)
Alison Powell (Internet Governance Seminar)
Karmen Guevara (Poster Session in Internet Science Conference)
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JRAs/organisers make sure that at workshops and events there is a good representation of female speakers (both keynote and other presentations)
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EINS has good links with the Women in Science
EU association EPWS
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We will ask EPWS and other associations, like
ECWT and WiTEC to endorse EINS next conference and events and promote them
2nd EINS REVIEW Brussels, 4-5/2/2014

Barry Wellman
Motohiro Tsuchiya
David Clark
Ronaldo Lemos
Marcelo Thompson
Andrea Matwyshyn
 6 confirmed members with following role:
 Act as general global ambassadors helping to spread the word on EINS
 Attend plenary meetings or Annual Conferences and provide feedback
 Participate as keynote speakers in EINS conferences/workshops
 Act as instructors to next EINS summer schools
 Review and provide preliminary feedback on important internet science deliverables
 Join programme committee for 2015 conference http://internet-science.eu/advisory-committee
3 rd EINS PLENARY Brussels, 4-5/2/2014

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Andrea Matwyshyn, keynote speaker at 1st International
Conference on Internet Science
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Wellman, Clark and Thompson present in 3rd EINS plenary
(25-26 November 2013, Munich)
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Valuable feedback has been received, and have been processed by
EINS consortium
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Planned cross-JRA intellectual workshop and intedisciplinary workshop on “Decision Making” as a result of this feedback
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Clark present in Internet Design and Governance
JRA4/SEA2 co-organised seminar at LSE in London, 22
November 2013
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EAC will be involved in next EINS cross-JRA event
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EINS decided based on EAC feedback and in agreement with our PO to :
 organize an intellectual workshop (inclusive, interactive and engaging) of all
JRAs with main target to facilitate dialogue between different disciplines
 proceed with a three days event in Summer in Bologna that will include:
 an all-JRA intellectual workshop; a call for papers will be distributed
 invited keynotes by advisory board members
 parallel sessions with affiliate members to add to the mix with joint JRAs discussions
 plenary meeting to check the progress of the project and discuss the internet science curriculum, Internet Science Roadmap, the Cross-Disciplinary EINS Multiple-Journal
Special Issue etc.
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Through this event we will gather feedback and maturity for the organization of the second EINS Conference that is planned for the 2nd quarter of 2015
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 Cooperation with JRA3
 Participation in WebSci’13 and WebSci’14
 Work with DERI (Galway) to identify make-up of disciplines in areas related to Internet Science
 Cross-disciplinary work to seed methods repository e.g. Comp Sci, Social Sci, economics, psychology
 Change in JRA2 leadership to incorporate social sciences
 Committed to cross-JRA workshop and connecting with Open Call projects and JRA4
JRA2 (C) 2014 University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre and other EINS partners Brussels, 4-5/2/2014

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 results incorporated into revised deliverables
 see D2.4.1
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 due to timing of review (M12 before any JRA2 deliverables due)
 tangible results now available
• repository populated (27 methods so far)
 http://www.internet-science.eu/tools
• recommendations provided to standards bodies and funding agencies
JRA2 (C) 2014 University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre and other EINS partners Brussels, 4-5/2/2014

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In response to the review, the JRA3 leader opened a call for contributions
 on the basis of these answers, it was possible to verify that
● some partners where completely unresponsive
● some new entrants could substitute them
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...significant redrafting of DoW
 making it easier to focus on tangible projects/issues to foster participation
● platform for datasets, tools, methodologies
 cases/pilots to have real discussions with stakeholders and contribute to populating the platform
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...all that was also connected with the issue of co-leadership
 Thanassis Tiropanis (SOTON): computer science background (computer engineering and informatics)
 Federico Morando (NEXA): social science background (economics and law)
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Critical issue: slow progress:
 some resources re-allocated
 the new pace of progress is higher, also thanks to hands-on workshops
(using Skype + GoogleDoc or similar tools to collaboratively edit documents) and periodical calls;
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Critical issue: lack of synergies between other JRAs (in particular 2) and JRA3; need to outreach to different disciplines:
 quickly going public with a beta-version of the platform (as described in the previous slides) also aims at addressing these issues;
 co-leadership with multidisciplinary backgrounds;
 during 2014, Task R3.3 (setting-up a multidisciplinary dialogue) will organize at least a public workshop reaching out to the open data or network neutrality multidisciplinary communities.
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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
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Integration and cooperation with JRA6
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JRA4/JRA5/JRA6/SEA2: Internet Design and Governance seminar,
LSE, November 2013
JRA4/5/SEA2 seminar on “Protecting Internet communications from pervasive monitoring”, February 2014
 JRA5/6 workshop at Society for Computers and Law (SCL) Policy
Forum ,June 2014
 JRA5/6 event related to ‘Being There: Humans and Robots in Public
Space’ project , 2014
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Cooperation with other WPs:
 JRA2/JRA3/JRA4/JRA5: Internet Science and Web Science synergies workshop at WebSci ’13, May 2013
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Significant progress on draft case studies
 Note especially UNIBO & NEXA multiple case studies
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Very constructive working relationships
 Notable inputs OXF (David-Barrett) to UN IGF/JRA4 workshop; hosting drafting workshop April’13
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Collaboration with other WPs:
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JRA4/JRA5/JRA6/SEA2: Internet Design and Governance seminar,
LSE, November 2013
JRA4/5/SEA2 seminar on “Protecting Internet communications from pervasive monitoring”, February 2014
 JRA5/6 workshop at Society for Computers and Law (SCL) Policy
Forum ,June 2014
 JRA4/JRA6/SEA2: Workshop at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) titled “From Mantra to Metrics: Measuring Multi-Stakeholderism?”,
October 2013
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Progress Made
 2 Deliverables due in 2013 made work of JRA7 partners public
 JRA7 position paper in progress
 Better social science inclusion via co-leadership
 New partner AIT was added
• Close to stakeholders, broader view than pure-ICT
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Events:
 Workshop proposal submitted at interdisciplinary (more social) conference COOP 2014
 Raise Internet Science awareness at more technical conference with
JRA8 at DRCN 2014 (confirmed)
 Aim for additional events
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More multi-scale integrated focus may be helpful:
 Initiated the work about user behaviour with an intensive discussion during the plenary meeting in Munich
 Assigned the JRA8 co-leadership to Laura Sartori, affiliated to the social sciences department of UniBo
 Formalized the merger of Tasks R8.3/R8.4 to increase the discussion forum and the impact of both tasks
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Due to overlapping themes, JRA7 and JRA8 could be combined to form one team
 Still two separate teams, but with an increased collaboration
• Some JRA7 partners attended the JRA8 session at
SustainIT2013
• Joint JRA7/8 workshop at the DRCN2014 conference confirmed, entitled “Understanding the inter-play between sustainability, resilience, and robustness in networks”
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 Reviewers’ comments
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Satisfactory progress on dissemination activities
The planning and organization of the 1 st EINS conference has not been completely satisfactory
 SEA1 and SEA3 should be a combined effort
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WP response
 Efforts on dissemination activities will remain important
 An all-JRA workshop organized in 2014 allowing to better prepare for the 2 nd EINS conference for the organization of which all reviewers comments will be taken in due consideration
 SEA1 and SEA3 will further increase their on-going cooperation (no merging: no clear benefits, a lot of non-productive efforts needed)
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According to the review recommendations, this year the technical report
 Is more concise on the theoretical background
 Include work and concrete progress of each WP during the period
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EINS management activities have been improved
 WP co-leaders facilitate the better coordination and integration of activities
 Re-allocation of effort from non-contributive to contributive partners
 EINS executive board discusses all problems
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Minimize deliverables to have only concrete ones presenting the results
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Audience, actors, related questions and importance of the questions should be defined for each JRA, instead of writing whitepapers
 Should put on the website for each JRA a paragraph “what is exciting in this JRA
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EAC members offered and suggested to:
 Review important deliverables prior to EU review
 Help us translate deliverables to exciting publications
 Get involved in pointed activities (e.g. participating in workshops)
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Connectivity with the rest of the world (through other existing social networks)
 Should have a workshop on “Intellectual Integration”
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We need concrete outcomes:
 JRA1: annotated bibliography for internet science
 JRA3: Datasets and catalogues
 Measure how the integration of different disciplines takes place
 Write a report on how we interact as a network
2nd EINS REVIEW Brussels, 4-5/2/2014