[Air-L] ISOC Foundation 2022 Research Grantees

Fri Feb 3 08:49:07 PST 2023

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This is beautiful and very encouraging.
Congratulations to all the grantees.

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On Fri, 3 Feb 2023 at 11:05, Joly MacFie via Air-L <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
wrote:

>
> https://www.isocfoundation.org/2023/02/announcing-our-2022-research-grantee-cohort/
>
> We’re thrilled to announce the diverse group of researchers who joined the
> Internet Society Foundation’s Research Program
> <
> https://www.isocfoundation.org/2022/01/third-round-of-grant-funding-awarded-to-researchers-studying-the-future-of-the-internet/
> >
> in
> 2022. Established in 2020, this program awards funding to researchers
> around the world who are examining the future and sustainability of the
> Internet
>
> Representing 18 organizations and 12 countries, these researchers are
> collectively generating solutions today to meet the Internet challenges of
> tomorrow.
>
> Through these grants, the Internet Society Foundation continues to advance
> new research on the future of the Internet, research that will influence
> policy and industry decisions and ultimately help shape a more equitable
> and sustainable future for the Internet and the people it serves.
>
> Learn more about each awardee in the list below. Projects are grouped by
> the Research Program’s four themes: A Trustworthy Internet, Decolonizing
> the Internet, Greening the Internet, and the Internet Economy.
> Decolonizing the Internet
>
> *Awardee *– Francis Saa-Dittoh – Ghana – $99,950.00
>
> *Research Question* – How can decentralized digital information systems
> promote decolonizing of the Internet in developing countries?
>
> *Awardee* – Stichting Digital Freedom Fund <
> https://digitalfreedomfund.org/> —
> Netherlands – $100,000
>
> *Research Question* – How can a decolonizing program for the European
> digital rights field be designed and implemented?
> Greening the Internet
>
> *Awardee* – Chomora Mikeka – Malawi – $81,314.00
>
> *Research Question *– Can Internet of Things (IoT) be green powered using
> ambient radio frequency energy harvesting?
>
> *Awardee *– The Green Web Foundation
> <https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/> – Netherlands – $550,000
>
> *Research Question* – How do we accelerate the transition of the Internet
> off of fossil fuels?
>
> *Awardee* – ISOC Kyrgyzstan Chapter <https://isoc.kg/>  – Kyrgyzstan –
> $200,000
>
> *Research Question* – Can we use the Internet of Things in a rough
> environment to detect landslides and other threats while developing an open
> and secure infrastructure?
>
> *Awardee *– German Informatics Society <https://gi.de/> – Germany –
> $196,788.00
>
> *Research Question* – What concepts of programming software in an
> environmentally friendly way (“Green Coding”) exist for software
> development?
>
> *Awardee* – University of Amsterdam <https://www.uva.nl/> – Netherlands –
> $250,000
>
> *Research Question* – How does Internet infrastructure reconfigure power
> relationships and resource dependencies, and how could it better serve the
> public interest?
> An Internet Economy
>
> *Awardee *– Data & Society Research Institute <https://datasociety.net/>
>  –
>  US – $499,926.00
>
> *Research Question* – How is the work of mental health professionals
> changing as they increasingly provide services through online digital
> platforms, and how do such shifts impact therapeutic expertise, therapeutic
> labor, and professional practice?
>
> *Awardee* – David Johnson – South Africa – $200,000
>
> *Research Question* – Can a decentralized mutual credit-based community
> voucher combined with a community network and localized services
> incentivize (i) custodianship of commons infrastructure, (ii) creation of
> more locally generated digital content , and (iii) act as a catalyst to the
> stability and expansion of a local market?
>
> *Awardee *– Fradkin Foundation for Economic Research
> <https://andreyfradkin.com/> – US – $150,550.00
>
> *Research Question* – What is the economic impact of dark patterns on
> consumers?
>
> *Awardee* – World Data Lab <https://worlddata.io/> – Austria – $485,375.00
>
> *Research Question* – Who is most affected by Internet poverty and which
> countries are making the greatest progress in reducing it? How can we
> promote greater access and use of the Internet to benefit the poor?
> A Trustworthy Internet
>
> *Awardee* – Centro Latam Digital <https://centrolatam.digital/> – Mexico –
> $249,550.00
>
> *Research Question* – What kind of interactions do migrants in transit have
> with the Internet based on their perception of digital vulnerability? How
> does this perception impact their decision making and strategies in using
> the Internet along their transit?
>
> *Awardee* – DNS Research Foundation <https://dnsrf.org/> – UK – $250,000
>
> *Research Question* – To establish an Internet Standards Observatory, what
> innovative research methodologies and policy research questions should we
> explore relating to the development of Internet standards?
>
> *Awardee* – The Distributed AI Research Institute
> <https://www.dair-institute.org/> in partnership with Code for Science &
> Society <https://www.codeforsociety.org/> – US – $500,000
>
> *Research Question* – What is the impact of social media platforms in
> countries and diaspora communities that are not considered important by the
> companies who own these platforms?
>
> *Awardee* – Evidence and Methods Lab <https://evidenceandmethodslab.org/>
> in
> partnership with the Internet Society Uganda Chapter <https://isoc.ug/> –
> Uganda – $550,000
>
> *Research Question* – What are the capacity gaps hindering the utilization
> of the Internet by government agencies in the effort to improve
> transparency and accountability in service delivery?
>
> *Awardee* – Georgia Institute of Technology <http://gatech.edu/> – US –
> $149,945.00
>
> *Research Question *– How can we improve our understanding of the way
> private sector governance mechanisms interact with technology to produce
> trust and security on the Internet?
>
> *Awardee* – Internet Security Research Group
> <https://www.abetterinternet.org/> – US – $350,000
>
> *Research Question* – How can we enforce the promises made in a privacy
> policy through technology that is ubiquitous and affordable?
>
> *Awardee* – Reset Tech Australia <https://au.reset.tech/> – Australia –
> $140,130.00
>
> *Research Question* – What does trustworthy tech, from young people’s
> perspectives, look like in practice?
>
>
>
> If you’d like to know more, you can see full details of our Research Grant
> Program
> <https://www.isocfoundation.org/grant-programme/research-grant-programme/
> >.
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> https://www.isocfoundation.org/
>
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