📋 Tender Overview
The Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society HIIG together with partner institutions from five continents is establishing a global research network with the aim of bringing scientific expertise more into the discussion and increasing the diversity of the debates which are often focused on Europe and the USA.Together with the Center for Media Technology and Democracy Montreal the Collaboration on International ICT Policy in East and Southern Africa CIPESA Kampala and seven other partners the HIIG would like to network research in this area more closely and make it more visible. This initiative emerged from several workshops including the event on Empirical Approaches in Platform Governance Research at the HIIG. The aim of the network is to establish a forum that promotes the exchange between the disciplines as well as between science and political debates. This should also create more visibility for perspectives beyond the often dominant US and European actors. Platforms and the underlying logics are being researched by different disciplines law and political science computer science and communication science are increasingly examining the emergence use significance and regulation of platforms and the consequences of their spread.At the official start in spring 2021 the network is organizing the transdisciplinary annual conference which is aimed at interested researchers from all disciplines as well as civil society and will take place online. For the conference at the end of March the HIIG will also open the new Platform Governance Archive PGA . While the debates about platform governance are becoming more and more intense and are at the top of the political and public agenda it is difficult and time-consuming for research and journalism to systematically monitor and investigate the handling of contentious content by platforms. A research team at HIIG has built and prepared a structured collection of thousands of these guidelines from terms and conditions to privacy policies to community guidelines . On this basis researchers and journalists will be able to deal with central questions in the current debate much more easily.
