[Air-l] Oxford Internet Institute Announces First Senior Fellow

[Vicki Nash]

Paul A. David, a Professor of Economics and Senior Fellow for Economic 
Policy Research at Stanford University, has joined the Oxford Internet 
Institute (OII) as its first Senior Fellow, where he will lead research 
on the social and institutional dynamics of e-Science. The Director of 
the OII, Bill Dutton, said: "Professor David is a mentor to some of the 
world's leading economists. He will be a major force in OII research on 
such critical issues of policy and practice as standards and 
intellectual property rights."

Professor David, a former chair of the Department of Economics at 
Stanford, will be a principal investigator on a new OII project which 
aims to identify key areas for social and policy research on e-Science. 
Professor David, also an Emeritus Senior Research Fellow of All Souls 
College, Oxford, sees his appointment as an opportunity to continue his 
collaboration with collegaues at the University of Oxford while building 
a new area of social and economic research. According to Professor 
David, " There is huge scope for a systematic study of the institutional 
  and organisational environments round the world that would be 
conducive to effectively utilizing the technical capabilities being 
created by the UK's e-Science programme."

Professor Paul Jeffreys, Director of the Oxford University Computing 
Services and Director of the Oxford University e-Science Centre, sees 
Paul David's appointment as a "wonderful opportunity to help build an 
'e-Science Social Science Virtual Centre' anchored at the University of 
Oxford in the OII and the Said Business School."

Notes.
1. The Oxford Internet Institute is one of the world's first truly 
multi-disciplnary Internet institutes based in a major university. 
Exclusively devoted to the study of the impact of the Internet on 
society, the OII aims to put Oxford, the Uk and Europe at the centre of 
debates about how the Internet could and should develop. For further 
information about the OII see http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk	
2. e-Science is a new area of technical research on the electronic and 
other technological infrastructures to support global netwroks that will 
enable scientists to collaborate and share equipment, data and other 
knowledge resources from anywhere in the world. See: 
http://www.research-councils.ac.uk/escience/
3. Information about the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) can 
be found at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/
4. For further information about Paul David, see 
http:www-econ.stanford.edu/faculty/david.html


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Dr Victoria Nash
Policy and Research Officer
Oxford Internet Institute
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