Welcome to the Internet & Communication Policy Center
The Internet and Communication Policy Center is an interdisciplinary research center of the Department of Political, Social and Communciation Sciences of the University of Salerno.
ICPC activities focus on the policy dimensions of Internet and Communication, addressing some of the most relevant and strategic transformative processes and issues of our time by different perspectives and research lines. Its goal is to collect and exchange theoretical approaches, methodologies, analyses and data concerning public policies and private practices impacting on Internet and on media governance ecosystem. ICPC is an interdisciplinary research center, gathering scholars from a wide range of academic disciplines: political science, social science, economics, law, linguistics, information sciences, communication and media studies.
Today the Commission published the eGovernment benchmark report, which assesses the use of information and communications technologies in public administrations, as well as the levels of cross-border interoperability and digital interaction between administrations and citizens or businesses in the EU Member States and 8 non-EU countries. This year’s study shows improvements in the level of […]
The Web Summit is the largest tech conference in the world. More than 70 000 attendees are expected to gather in Lisbon, with 1200 speakers and participants from 160 countries for 4 days of networking and business. The European Commission will have a corporate stand at the Web Summit and the Directorate-General for Communication Networks, […]
The European Commission’s Directorate‑General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (Connect) is organising a workshop exploring the synergies between cloud, extreme scale data & high performance computing infrastructure and machine-learning methodologies. The aim is to investigate options to underpin an efficient European Earth system modelling capability in the future and a coherent support to EU […]
The 2019 eGovernment Benchmark report shows remarkable improvements in the Transparency and Key enablers indicators. Even though there is still a significant gap between the leaders and laggards in eGovernment in all four Top-level benchmarks, it has been steadily narrowing in the last few years. The report also highlights how trust in government is increasingly […]
The purpose of this call for tenders is to review and update the International Digital Economy and Society Index (I-DESI), published in 2018. The contractor shall calculate the index for three to five years (covering data from 2015 to 2019, or as recent as possible when some of these years are not available) and to […]
