Jonathan Donner, Senior Director of Research at Caribou Digital, will join USC ARNIC to give a guest lecture, entitled “Happening Now: Encoding Participation in Global and Mobile Information Economies,” followed by Q&A. Lunch will be provided.
His presentation will draw on several current projects, in Digital Financial Services, in Digital Identity, and in New Internet Access models, to outline new tensions confronting the information and communications for development (ICT4D) research community as mobile technologies have become nearly ubiquitous…. Read More » “Happening Now: Encoding Participation in Global and Mobile Information Economies”

Sarah T. Roberts, Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA, will join ARNIC to give a guest lecture, entitled, “Commercial Content Moderation: Human Workers in the Platform World.”
The presentation will address issues in digital labor and knowledge work within a post-Industrial, globalized context, and be followed by Q&A. Lunch will be provided…. Read More » “Commercial Content Moderation: Human Workers in the Platform World”

David Kaye, UCI Professor and UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, will join us to give a guest lecture on international issues in digital governance and ethics, based on his professional experiences, followed by Q&A.  Lunch will be provided.
More details to come…. Read More » “David Kaye invited lecture”

Rodrigo de la Parra, ICANN Regional Vice President (of Latin America and the Caribbean), will join us on Thursday, February 2nd.  He will discuss “The Multistakeholder Model in the Management of Internet Unique Identifiers,” followed by Q&A.  Lunch will be provided.
Suggested readings for the discussion can be found here.
 
About Rodrigo de la Parra: 
A leading voice and advocate for the multistakeholder Internet governance model in Latin America and the Caribbean,… Read More » “The Multistakeholder Model in the Management of Internet Unique Identifiers”

Eleanor Marchant, Visiting Scholar at USC ARNIC this semester and a PhD Candidate at the Annenberg School for Communications at the University of Pennsylvania, will present work from her dissertation, a yearlong ethnography of the nascent technology startup community in Nairobi Kenya, widely lauded by international news as the “tech hub of Africa” and by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg as the “world leader in mobile money”. Eleanor spent all of 2016 embedded in the communications and research departments of an organization called iHub,… Read More » “Silicon Utopias: Preliminary findings from a year-long ethnography in the Silicon Savannah”

Donald Abelson, former chief of the FCC International Bureau, and now Principal at Sudbury International LLC, will visit in November to speak with ARNIC team members about a wide range of Internet governance policy and technical issues.  He will also discuss with the research group how academics can conduct relevant research and contribute toward national and international policy work.
 
About Sudbury International LLC: 
Sudbury International LLC provides policy and strategic advice to a global client base on a wide range of trade,… Read More » “Visit from Donald Abelson, Former FCC International Bureau Chief”

Frank Nagle is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at the Marshall School of Business at USC. He studies the economics of IT and digitization with a focus on free digital goods using large datasets from online social networks, financial market information, and surveys of enterprise IT usage. His research examines how the digital economy and crowdsourcing are weakening firm boundaries and causing mismeasurements of productivity measures like GDP.
Prior to academia, Frank worked in information security where he responded to corporate hackings and developed a bootcamp that all FBI cyber agents must pass before entering the field…. Read More » “Guest talk by Professor Nagle”

Dr. Lily Irani of the University of California, San Diego, will visit on April 19th, 2016, to present a working paper, entitled, “Building a Nation through Entrepreneurial Citizenship.”… Read More » “Building a Nation through Entrepreneurial Citizenship”

Dr. Joyjeet Pal of the University of Michigan, School of Information, will visit and present on “Twitter and the Rebranding of Narendra Modi.”… Read More » “Twitter and the Rebranding of Narendra Modi”