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IEEE 802 Plenary
Berlin, 9-14 July
Participant Names:
Imir
Rashid (Associate Research Fellow, University of Exeter,
UK)
Seamus
Simpson (Professor of Media Policy, University of
Salford, UK)
Associated Research
Project: International
Professional Fora: A Study of Civil Society
Organisation Participation in
Internet Governance
We are
academic researchers in the
social sciences (politics, communication policy) engaged
in a three year UK
Economic and Social Research Council funded research
project. Our over-arching research
question is: Does civil
society participation in self-regulatory fora promote
public interest goals in
Internet governance at the international level?
The project aims
to understand better
standard-setting at the international level with a focus
on three key areas,
one of which is spectrum. The other two areas of the
project are privacy (led
by Prof George Christou, University of Warwick) and open
standards (led by Prof
Alison Harcourt, University of Exeter).
As social
scientists, we aim to provide detailed
insight into the standards making world which, although
highly technical of
course, very much affects the way in which citizens and
consumers live and work
on a daily basis. For further information on the
project, visit: http://internetpolicystreams.com/
Purpose
of Attendance at
the IEEE 802 Plenary
Dr
Rashid and Professor Simpson have registered for the
IEEE 802 Plenary.
Our
aim is to:
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Contribute,
as appropriate, to the discussions being held at the
event
·
Undertake
a range of interviews with attendees at the event as
part of our research
project
The
part of the research project focused on spectrum (led by
Seamus Simpson) has
currently two core concerns:
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The
development of co-existence standards for use of
unlicensed wireless spectrum
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The
development of wireless technical standards for the
Internet of Things
At
IEEE 802 Plenary, we hope to talk to attendees who could
help us understand
better the development process of wireless co-existence
standards for local
area network environments. We are particularly
interested in gaining an
understanding of how solutions to the challenges of
co-existence emerge and the
role of key parties in securing them. We are also
interested in talking to
experts who might be able to discuss the state of play
with wireless LAN
standards development for the Internet of Things, though
we realise that this
may not be a core concern of attendees at the Plenary.
The
Outcomes of Our Research Project
Our
research is a publicly funded academic project. The
information we would hope to
gather on the above
topics through one to one interview engagement with
attendees at the IEEE 802
Plenary would adhere to strict ethical procedures for
academic research in the
social sciences. It is our intention that the
information would be used as part
of a series of future academic outputs. Rashid and
Simpson will give a paper on
co-existence standards at the 2017 European Consortium
for Political Research
General conference, Oslo, 6-9 September. It is our
intention to present the
results of the project at dissemination events in
London (October 2017) and
Brussels (March 2018). We expect the project to
produce a further conference
paper, as well as three academic articles and a
co-authored research monograph,
over the course of 2018 and 2019. The information
gathered at IEEE 802 Plenary
in Berlin, we hope, would assist in the production of
this work.
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