[Chapter-delegates] Internet data and research

[Michael Kende]

Hi Dave,

Thanks, and also thanks to Evan who made a related point about reviewing reports with which I agree.  I would very much appreciate if you elaborated on this.  My current thinking is to have an Amazon style review section, wherein we can rate the report (e.g. With stars) and then provide reviews, and as with Amazon the author is of course free to respond as well.  Editorial control, if any, in this case would be limited to ensuring that the posts are professional.

Would your idea be to review each paper or select papers, and then there would be an online journal?  Would it also be for new work?  I had thought it might be interesting to pick a theme and then have a seminar with the resulting papers.

Also, as I have been putting together the database I would divide things into four categories

  *   data sources, provided by governments or IGOs (e.g. ITU, UNCTAD)
  *   data sources, provided by companies often with accompanying reports (e.g. Cisco, Akamai)
  *   reports written by NGOs, consultancies, etc. (e.g. McKinsey, WEF)
  *   papers written by academics

Do you envision treating any of these categories differently for purposes of review and/or commentary?  I had not, at least for the Amazon style reviews, but perhaps for the editorial reviews?

Thanks
Michael

From: David Farber <farber at gmail.com<mailto:farber at gmail.com>>
Date: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 at 4:36 PM
To: Michael Kende <kende at isoc.org<mailto:kende at isoc.org>>
Cc: "chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org<mailto:chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>" <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org<mailto:chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>>
Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Internet data and research

I would recommend that we create a review website that will acccept abstracts of ideas and papers and will provide facility for online commentary and reviews. In order for this to be at all effective it will be necessary to have some editorial control. I recommend a small group of editors that would admit articles and reviews to the journal. The criteria for the editors should be quality of the abstracts and reviews rather than just whether they agree..

I can elaborate if desired.

Dave

On Nov 26, 2013, at 10:17 AM, Michael Kende <kende at isoc.org<mailto:kende at isoc.org>> wrote:

As part of my new role at ISOC, we are launching a new portal on the ISOC website that aggregates existing data sources and reports (ours and third-party),  The purpose of it is threefold: first, as a public resource to learn about the impact of new infrastructure on the Internet, and the broader economic impact of the Internet; second, in order to help identify gaps in data, and determine how best to fill those gaps; and third, to promote new analysis and insights by everyone in the Internet community, including ourselves, to further stimulate a better understanding of the Internet and its Economy.

The portal is at.

https://www.internetsociety.org/internet-data-and-research

One outstanding issue is whether, and if so how, to exclude bad research and data from the list.  On the one hand is a strong desire to be open and inclusive of all available data and reports, while on the other hand there is a thought that we should review and exclude suspect or biased work. We do not have the resources to perform such extensive review on each linked item (as of today there are over 200 in the database), and I believe that it would be difficult to determine the criteria for excluding work in any case.  However, in order to be of most use as a public resource, it would be useful to provide information that could help all of us make decisions about what data and reports to use.  As a result, we are considering including a review section, such as used in Amazon, to rate and provide comments from all, including hopefully the authors.  For starters, there are two feedback sections, one to send me comments on specific reports, and the other to provide suggestions for work that has not yet been included.  Thoughts on how to move this forward would be most appreciated.

Best regards,

Michael Kende
Chief Economist
Internet Society
Galerie Jean-Malbuisson 15
CH-1204 Geneva
Switzerland

Tel: +41 22 809 0367
E-mail: kende at isoc.org<mailto:kende at isoc.org>
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