NEXA Center for Internet and Society

The NEXA Center for Internet & Society is a research center founded at the Polytechnic University of Turin. It is an academic research center which studies the Internet with a multidisciplinary approach: technical, juridical and economical.

History, mission and projects

The NEXA Center for Internet & Society was founded on 26 November 2006 by prof. Juan Carlos De Martin and prof. Marco Ricolfi. Based in Turin (Italy), it coordinates, among other projects, COMMUNIA, the European Thematic Network on the digital public domain (2007-2011), LAPSI, the European Thematic Network on legal aspects of public sector information (2010-2012) and represents Creative Commons in Italy. The NEXA Center also coordinates SeLiLi (Servizio Licenze Libere), a service offering free advice on free licenses. A notable software project of the Center is NeuBot, the Network Neutrality Bot, a free software to monitor Internet quality in a distributed fashion.

The NEXA Center works with the European Commission, national and local governments, companies and other institutions. The aim of the center is to broaden the understanding of the main factors characterizing the Internet, their dynamics and their impact on society.

Members

The NEXA Center is run by two co-directors, a board of trustees, staff members and several fellows. Prof. Charles Nesson is a member of the NEXA Board of Trustees together with another Berkman Center for Internet and Society co-director, prof. Yochai Benkler, and also with other well known Italian and foreign personalities as prof. Stefano Rodotà, prof. Raffaele Meo and Michelangelo Pistoletto.

See also

• Communia
• Creative Commons

External links

• http://nexa.polito.it/
• http://communia-project.eu/
• http://lapsi-project.eu/
• http://www.creativecommons.it/
• Berkman Center for Internet and Society homepage
• Communia: University in Cyberspace 2010 conference site (co-produced with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and other partners