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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Wendy Hall
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<b>Sent:</b> 30 September 2015 06:49<br>
<b>To:</b> Thanassis Tiropanis <t.tiropanis@southampton.ac.uk>; Tinati R. <R.Tinati@soton.ac.uk>; Xin Wang <xinxinbird@gmail.com>; Siow B.L.E. <Eugene.Siow@soton.ac.uk>; Luczak-Roesch M. <M.Luczak-Rosch@soton.ac.uk>; Brown I.C. <Ian.Brown@soton.ac.uk><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Fwd: [report-release-list] Harvard's Berkman Center launches Internet Data Dashboard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Can you dig into this and see what they are really doing here? Are their synergies with what we are doing? How can we work with them? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Once we've got a better idea of what they are doing I can approach them about collaboration. John will help with that<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Wendy<o:p></o:p></p>
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Sent from my iPhone<o:p></o:p></p>
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Taysom.com</a> <<a href="mailto:john@taysom.com">john@taysom.com</a>><br>
<b>Date:</b> 28 September 2015 19:40:25 GMT+5:30<br>
<b>To:</b> Professor Wendy Hall <<a href="mailto:wh@ecs.soton.ac.uk">wh@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>>, Nigel Shadbolt <<a href="mailto:nrs@ecs.soton.ac.uk">nrs@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> <b>Fwd: [report-release-list] Harvard's Berkman Center launches Internet Data Dashboard</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b>From:</b> Berkman Center <<a href="mailto:cyber@law.harvard.edu">cyber@law.harvard.edu</a>><br>
<b>Date:</b> 28 September 2015 15:02:41 BST<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:report-release-and-press-list@eon.law.harvard.edu">report-release-and-press-list@eon.law.harvard.edu</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> <b>[report-release-list] Harvard's Berkman Center launches Internet Data Dashboard</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<i>Dashboard debuts at World Economic Forum meeting in Geneva</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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The <a href="https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/">Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University</a> is pleased to announce the launch of
<a href="https://dashboard.thenetmonitor.org/">the Internet Monitor dashboard</a>, a freely accessible tool that aims to improve information for policymakers, researchers, advocates, and user communities working to shape the future of the Internet by helping
them understand trends in Internet health and activity through data analysis and visualization.<br>
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“Over three billion people around the globe use the Internet—for communication, for education, for livelihood,” said Urs Gasser, Executive Director of the Berkman Center. “As the Internet becomes a vital part of more and more people’s lives and as we shape
its future, we need both data and analysis to help understand how it’s working. The Internet Monitor dashboard brings this data and analysis together in an easily shareable way.”<br>
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The dashboard lets users customize a collection of data visualization widgets—some offering real-time data—about Internet access and infrastructure, online content controls, and digital activity. Users can create multiple collections that enable easy comparisons
across countries and data sources, and are quick to configure, edit, and share. In addition to creating their own collections, visitors to the dashboard will be able to view a selection of featured collections based on topics such as online media and network
traffic around the world.<br>
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“I love what the Internet Monitor makes possible: a nuanced, informative view of what is really happening on the Internet all around the world,” said John Palfrey, a Director of the Berkman Center. “I couldn’t be more excited by what we can learn by virtue
of having this tool at the disposal of researchers, policymakers, journalists, and the public at large.”<br>
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The Internet Monitor dashboard launched on September 28 at the World Economic Forum's Future of the Internet Initiative (FII) core community meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. As a Knowledge Partner of the FII, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society is leading
and participating in a set of activities that aim to foster an open, interoperable, and affordable Internet, serving the global public interest.<br>
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“Internet Monitor is a key part of our effort to expand the evidence base for public and private decision making about the future of the Internet,” said Mark Spelman, Future of the Internet Initiative, World Economic Forum. “We are glad to be partnering with
the Berkman Center on such an important venture.”<br>
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Internet Monitor’s <a href="https://thenetmonitor.org/map">public data platform</a> and
<a href="https://thenetmonitor.org/faq/a-hackable-access-index">Access Index</a>, which launched in July 2014, offer free public access to an initial set of primary and secondary data and related analysis. The project’s
<a href="https://thenetmonitor.org/research">research series</a> focuses on key events and new developments in Internet controls and online activity. The new dashboard offers an interactive view of of the state of the Internet across a variety of dimensions.
By making data more available and approachable, the dashboard aims to inspire both greater use of the data that exists and greater efforts to collect and share that data that does not yet exist.<br>
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"Internet architecture relies on an extraordinary collective hallucination: there is no central authority or switching station,” said Jonathan Zittrain, Faculty Chair of the Berkman Center. “That has made measurement of even basic facts about the size and scope
of the Internet, and the flow of bits within it, difficult. We need those measurements to inform any number of debates about the state and future of the Internet. This project aims to get them.” Zittrain added that a key feature of the dashboard is that
its data comes from many sources, making important work from a variety of people and institutions around the world more accessible to people who can use it.<br>
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Internet Monitor continues to seek and integrate new sources of data in order to provide policymakers, digital activists, researchers, journalists, and user communities with an authoritative, independent, and multi-faceted set of quantitative data on the state
of the global Internet. Current data partners include organizations such as Akamai, which is contributing data on country-level Internet connection speeds, network attacks, and web traffic; Kaspersky, which is contributing data on spam, cyberattacks, and infections;
Media Cloud, which is contributing data on online media worldwide; and Herdict, which is contributing data on crowdsourced reports of website unavailability. The project will continue to add new data partners and sources on a rolling basis.<br>
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A short trailer video is at <a href="https://youtu.be/Rwld3EGMbKw">https://youtu.be/Rwld3EGMbKw</a>, and a video tutorial is at
<a href="https://youtu.be/PnjEXgJ1Ge0">https://youtu.be/PnjEXgJ1Ge0</a>.<br>
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<b>About Internet Monitor</b><br>
Internet Monitor is a research project based at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Internet Monitor's aim is to evaluate, describe, and summarize the means, mechanisms, and extent of Internet content controls and Internet activity around
the world. The project helps researchers, advocates, policymakers, and user communities understand trends in Internet health and activity through research, analysis, and data visualization. More information can be found at
<a href="https://thenetmonitor.org">https://thenetmonitor.org</a>.<br>
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<b>About the Berkman Center</b><br>
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. Founded in 1997, through a generous gift from Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman, the Center
is home to an ever-growing community of faculty, fellows, staff, and affiliates working on projects that span the broad range of intersections between cyberspace, technology, and society. More information can be found at
<a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu">http://cyber.law.harvard.edu</a>.<br>
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<b>About the World Economic Forum</b><br>
The World Economic Forum is a comprehensive and integrated platform to strategically shape global, regional, national and industry agendas. The Forum helps the foremost political, business and other leaders of society to improve the state of the world, serving
as an independent and impartial partner and acting as the officially recognized International Institution for Public-Private Cooperation. More information can be found at
<a href="http://www.weforum.org/">http://www.weforum.org/</a>.<br>
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Contact<br>
<a href="mailto:info@thenetmonitor.org">info@thenetmonitor.org</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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