Digital society

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About half the world’s population uses the internet. How do we take advantage of this digital connectivity and also protect society from risk?

Let’s get statted

03 Jun 2015

With more information than ever at our fingertips, statisticians are vital to innumerable fields and industries. Welcome to the world of the datarati...

What are you looking at, Credit: Andreas Levers

Opinion: How much is riding on having ‘nothing to hide’?

18 Mar 2015

We live in an age of near-total surveillance. In a talk given earlier this week, Professor Jon Crowcroft argued that total surveillance of society is...

Anyone for digital democracy?

02 Mar 2015

Dr Finbarr Livesey – ̽��ֱ�� lecturer and Deputy Director of the MPhil in Public Policy – submitted research to Parliament’s recent report on...

How can we protect our information in the era of cloud computing?

26 Jan 2015

Private information would be much more secure if individuals moved away from cloud-based storage towards peer-to-peer systems, where data is stored...

Classic OPTE project map of the internet 2005.

Future internet aims to sever links with servers

30 Oct 2013

A revolutionary new architecture aims to make the internet more “social” by eliminating the need to connect to servers and enabling all content to be...

Storica allows users to revisit any aspect of their lives in extreme detail, producing digital stories and an array of graphs and data which may help people to find out more about what is influencing their feelings and behaviour.

Dear digital diary…

12 Aug 2013

A powerful life-logging tool which captures and stores memorable moments in people’s lives is being developed by two researchers who argue that it...

̽��ֱ��Emotion Sense app asks users to record their feelings on a chart designed by psychologists, then surveys them further to assess their mood accurately. This is cross-referred with data about their behaviour, picked up by sensors within the phone itself

Mood-tracking app paves way for pocket therapy

08 May 2013

An Android app which keeps tabs on users’ mood swings and works out what might be causing them has been developed by researchers, with implications...