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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
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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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