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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:
· 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:
· The development of co-existence
standards for use of unlicensed wireless spectrum
· 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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