Social Shaping
The OeSS node, based at the University of Oxford aims to help give the UK research community a lead in advancing understanding of the social shaping and impacts of e-infrastructures by identifying ways forward for the appropriate design of e-sciences technologies, institutions and practices.
The OeSS research node is focused on gaining a better understanding of issues such as:
Confidentiality
Privacy
Data protection
Intellectual property rights (IPR)
Accountability and trust and
Risk in distributed collaborations.

