Niels ten Oever
Niels ten Oever (born 1 July 1983 in Meppel) is an Assistant Professor at the European Studies department at the University of Amsterdam.[1] He is connected as a Visiting Professor to the Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro. Ten Oever is one of three Principal Investigators of the critical infrastructure lab.[2]
Research
Ten Oever's research interests are mainly connected to telecommunication and internet infrastructure governance. His research mainly covers communication technologies that are standardized, governed, and coordinated in the Internet Engineering Taskforce, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, RIPE NCC, the International Telecommunications Union, and the 3GPP.
His research combines qualitative and quantitative methods. He has published over a dozen peer-reviewed academic publications in journals such as New Media and Society, Information, Communication & Society, Globalizations, Policy & Internet, Internet Policy Review, and others.
Internet governance
Ten Oever has been active in the Internet Research Taskforce (IRTF) where he co-authored several RFCs,[3][4][5] mostly focusing on the relation between human rights and internet protocols.[6][7] Niels is co-founder and former chair of both the Human Rights Protocol Considerations (hrpc) Research Group[8] and the Research and Analysis of Standard-Setting Processes (rasp) Research Group[9] in the IRTF, and a veteran of the Internet Research Steering group (IRSG). He served as Vice-Chair for the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (giga-net) and as the final editor of the Tao of the IETF.[4]
He also participated in the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, most notably during the IANA transition, where he participated in the work on incorporating a commitment to human rights into ICANN's bylaws [10] specifically as rapporteur for the CCWG-Accountability Work Stream 2 human rights subgroup that developed the Framework of Interpretation for ICANN's human rights bylaw.
Books
Ten Oever co-authored How the Internet Really Works,[11] an illustrated book that seeks to explain the technical and governance underpinning of the internet infrastructure. The book was originally written in English and has been translated into Ukrainian, Polish, Korean, German, and French.
Ten Oever published his dissertation 'Wired Norms: Inscription, resistance, and subversion in the governance of the Internet infrastructure'.[12]
Grants
For his research, Ten Oever has obtained grants from the Internet Society Foundation,[13] the Open Technology Fund,[14][15] and the Ford Foundation.[16][17]
External links
- Website of Niels ten Oever
- Employee profile at the University of Amsterdam
- Website of the critical infrastructure lab
- Google scholar profile
References
- ↑ "Dr. N. (Niels) ten Oever". University of Amsterdam. 2025-03-18. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
- ↑ "critical infrastructure lab". www.criticalinfralab.net. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
- ↑ ten Oever, Niels; Cath, Corinne; Kühlewind, Mirja; Perkins, Colin. Report from the IAB Workshop on Analyzing IETF Data (AID) 2021 (Report). Internet Engineering Task Force.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 ten Oever, Niels; Wood, Greg. Retiring the Tao of the IETF (Report). Internet Engineering Task Force.
- ↑ Establishing the Protocol Police (Report). Internet Engineering Task Force. 2021-04-01.
- ↑ ten Oever, Niels; Cath, Corinne. Research into Human Rights Protocol Considerations (Report). Internet Engineering Task Force.
- ↑ Grover, Gurshabad; ten Oever, Niels. Guidelines for Human Rights Protocol and Architecture Considerations (Report). Internet Engineering Task Force.
- ↑ "IRTF Human Rights Protocol Considerations Research Group (HRPC)". www.irtf.org. Retrieved 2025-05-08.
- ↑ "Research and Analysis of Standard-Setting Processes Research Group (rasprg)". datatracker.ietf.org. Retrieved 2025-05-08.
- ↑ "ICANN Human Rights". Retrieved 2025-05-05.
- ↑ "How the internet really works - An illustrated guide to protocols, privacy, censorship, and governance". How the internet really works. Retrieved 2025-05-07.
- ↑ ten Oever, Niels (28 October 2020). Wired Norms: Inscription, resistance, and subversion in the governance of the Internet infrastructure (PDF). Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam. hdl:11245.1/9dff56cd-0ec6-40fa-b136-105bed8ac243. Search this book on
- ↑ "The Critical Infrastructure Lab". Internet Society Foundation. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
- ↑ "5G and Human Rights". OTF. 2023-02-10. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
- ↑ "The Geopolitics of Communication Infrastructures – Conflict, (Dis)Connection, and Control". OTF. 2024-05-09. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
- ↑ "144895 - University of Amsterdam". Ford Foundation. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
- ↑ "149179 - University of Amsterdam". Ford Foundation. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
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