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.
The EMPOWER project launches a consultation to create and update the advanced wireless 5G technology roadmap based on the analysis of trends for Beyond 5G in the respective research, standards, and spectrum communities.
The report from the 'Horizon 2020 Water Innovations for sustainable impacts in industries and utilities' workshop is online. The main conclusions consider the importance and opportunity of digitalisation of water solutions, demonstration of the water/energy/food/nutrients nexus, development of niche markets and overcoming legislative, regulatory and social acceptance barriers to deliver circular economy in the water […]
The European Commission is currently working together with stakeholders, supervisors and regulators to define standard contractual clauses for outsourcing agreements between financial institutions and cloud service providers.
The project OpenRiskNet developed an open e-Infrastructure providing resources and services to a variety of communities requiring risk assessment. This infrastructure offers an important alternative to produce chemicals, cosmetic ingredients or nanomaterials without using animal testing.
Only 15 % of people working in tech are women at the same time as the skills gap in technology remain high. To counter the imbalance the European Commission published a call for proposals for a pilot project “Girls 4 STEM in Europe” on 24 May 2019. The resulting pilot project GEM – Empower Girls […]
