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=='''Measurement of physical and functional access to digital infrastructure'''==


''Speed
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Advertised speeds (OECD, FCC)

Content delivery networks and web services

Download Speeds

Distributed client-side hardware: download and upload speed

Crowdsourcing


''Price''

Comparison of offers from all ISPs and countries

User-submitted information


''Infrastructure location, size and routing
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IP distribution

Domain allocation

Internet hosts

Number, size and relationships of autonomous systems (AS)

Network bandwidth estimates

Internet exchange location of traffic

Route identification and analysis

National network status

International pipe location, traffic and dependencies


'''''Suggested Sources:''
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Akamai

Netfilx

Government partnerships

Samknows

Ookla

M-Lab

Ne-Index

Speedtest

Renesys

Arbor Networks

=='''Qualitative and quantitative assessments of content control'''==

Take-downs

Filtering

DDOS

Malware and other attacks

Legal restrictions

Non-technical controls

Self-censorship

=='''Measurement of online activity (content and communities)'''==

Tracking internet activity of citizens, companies and public agencies in relation to human development and well-being

Number of people engaging

Types and quantity of information production, assessement and sharing

Formation of civic organizations, professional groups and new media entities

Growth and scale of e-commerce and online business

Use of online resources for health, education and science

Impact on governance

=='''Privation comparison to offline activities'''==

=Challenges=

Overproduction of data

Online activity attributes (technology affordance vs migration and mirroring of political, economic and social transactions)

Raw number of users real activity

Government restrictions 

Social practices constraints

Dept and dearth of content

Language locality

=Approach=

Consistent measures

Per case comparison of findings to non consistent measures

Measuring the incremental activity shift

Link between activity and impact measures

=Questions=

To what extend does access to the internet contribute to a better informed populace tha can effectively participate in public life and contribute to human development?

Do citizens have access to information that is accurate?

Do they know how to identify misinformation?

Does increasing engagement with digital media lead to better policy decisions?

= Theodor Kolovos =

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'''More'''
* [[Data sources for measuring online activity]]
* [[Schema for institutional ecology]]
* [[Locus of Control in Online Environments]]
* [[Adamic and Glance]]
* [[Predictability and Prediction for a Media-Experimental Cultural Market]]
* [[Network readiness index and web index]]
* [[Communication platform design characteristics (public sphere)]]
* [[Criteria for the measurement of the impact of the internet in society]]
* [[Shift on internet studies]]
* [[Direct measures of the internet (ISP/ICT)]]

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'''Participating @:'''
* [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2011/02/kleine ICTs for “development”]
* [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/cyberscholars/2011/03/mit Cyberscholar Working Group]
* [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2011/03/costanzachock Transmedia Mobilization]
* [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6640 CRCS]
* [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/designsforprivacy/Main_Page Designs for Privacy]

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'''Useful Links:'''
* [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2011/03/costanzachock Media Convergence]
* [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2011/03/costanzachock Data Journalism]
* [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2011/03/costanzachock Media Migration]
* [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2011/03/costanzachock Philosophy and Ethics of Information]

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'''My Info'''
* [mailto:email@synallagi.info Email]
* [http://www.nextissue.com/category/press Next Issue Media]
* [http://www.kantarmedia.com Kantar]
* [http://www.tkolovosconsulting.com Idependent Consulting]
* [http://comunisms.blogactiv.eu Euractiv ]
* [https://twitter.com/theodorkolovos Twitter]

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