This website is archived and is not maintained.
For up to date information on eResearch, go to our NEW Manchester e-Research Centre Site, MeRC http://www.merc.ac.uk

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.