[Air-L] Fwd: Internet Society Internet data and research portal

[Joly MacFie]

This from the Internet Society Chapter Delegates list. That ISOC is making
a serious effort to aggregate research and data is a welcome development.

I am sure Michael would welcome all and any input on how to optimise his
task. I've cc'd him above.

j

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From: Michael Kende <kende at isoc.org>
Date: Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:17 AM
Subject: [Chapter-delegates] Internet data and research
To: "chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org" <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>


 As part of my new role at ISOC, we are launching a new portal on the ISOC
website that aggregates existing data sources and reports (ours and
third-party),  The purpose of it is threefold: first, as a public resource
to learn about the impact of new infrastructure on the Internet, and the
broader economic impact of the Internet; second, in order to help identify
gaps in data, and determine how best to fill those gaps; and third, to
promote new analysis and insights by everyone in the Internet community,
including ourselves, to further stimulate a better understanding of the
Internet and its Economy.

 The portal is at.

 https://www.internetsociety.org/internet-data-and-research

 One outstanding issue is whether, and if so how, to exclude bad research
and data from the list.  On the one hand is a strong desire to be open and
inclusive of all available data and reports, while on the other hand there
is a thought that we should review and exclude suspect or biased work. We
do not have the resources to perform such extensive review on each linked
item (as of today there are over 200 in the database), and I believe that
it would be difficult to determine the criteria for excluding work in any
case.  However, in order to be of most use as a public resource, it would
be useful to provide information that could help all of us make decisions
about what data and reports to use.  As a result, we are considering
including a review section, such as used in Amazon, to rate and provide
comments from all, including hopefully the authors.  For starters, there
are two feedback sections, one to send me comments on specific reports, and
the other to provide suggestions for work that has not yet been included.
 Thoughts on how to move this forward would be most appreciated.

 Best regards,

  Michael Kende
Chief Economist
Internet Society
Galerie Jean-Malbuisson 15
CH-1204 Geneva
Switzerland

Tel: +41 22 809 0367
E-mail: kende at isoc.org
Website: www.internetsociety.org

'The Internet is for Everyone!'



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