We are currently engaged in a three-year research programme on The Internet, Public Policy and Political Science: Collective Action, Governance and Citizen-Government Interactions in the Digital Era, which started 1st April 2011.

More information about this project is available in the OII press release, and project description page.

This project opened the expert deliberation of costing digital exclusion by developing a Methodology for Costing the Impact of Digital Exclusion and then creating a digital exclusion project website to allow all Internet users to share their comments and critiques.

This UCL-based project forms part of the Communications Research Network
(CRN), a Knowledge Integration Community funded by the Cambridge-MIT
Institute and co-funded by British Telecom. It brings together researchers from Cambridge University, MIT and University College
London – economists, public policy experts, management analysts, engineers and computer scientists – who together provide a uniquely

A joint team from the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford have been awarded a grant from the Nuffield Foundation under their 'Access to Justice' research programme.