Research Areas
ONGOING PROJECTS
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Responsible AI: from principles to practice
A study that aims to develop practical techniques and industrial practices for accountable Artificial Intelligence (AI) decision-making.
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FAIR
An italian project, submitted under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan funded by the European Union, that seeks to advance the development of AI systems that interact with humans, adapt to changing contexts, prioritize safety, and consider ethical and legal impacts.
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CLIKC: Content and Language Integrated learning for Key Competences
An Erasmus+ project that developed an innovative AI-powered platform to effectively train unemployed individuals
ALL PROJECTS
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Generative AI and liability of developers, providers and users
A TIM-financed project which aims to address modern challenges related to the liability of different subjects in regards to the use and development of AI systems.
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Internet of Things and Circular Economy
Studying the impact of the Internet of Things on our society
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#socialUniversity
A quali-quantitative analysis of the presence of Italian universities on social networks, focusing on Facebook and Twitter.
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The New European Data Strategy: a comparison with the USA
An explanation of the upcoming European rules regarding data exchange and processing, and a comparison between those and the current American system.
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Responsible AI: from principles to practice
A study that aims to develop practical techniques and industrial practices for accountable Artificial Intelligence (AI) decision-making.
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FAIR
An italian project, submitted under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan funded by the European Union, that seeks to advance the development of AI systems that interact with humans, adapt to changing contexts, prioritize safety, and consider ethical and legal impacts.
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DIGITAL PLATFORMS AND ONLINE CENSORSHIP
Content moderation between freedom of thought and policies against disinformation and hate speech online
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The Metaverse and its opportunities
A critical analysis of the current concept of “metaverse”, analysing its origins, its current discipline and its future.
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CLIKC: Content and Language Integrated learning for Key Competences
An Erasmus+ project that developed an innovative AI-powered platform to effectively train unemployed individuals
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STRATEGYHACK – Hacking Institutional Strategy for Rapidly Deployed Digital Education (EU Project)
Hacking Education through eLearning and Open Education
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Biennale Tecnologia
A series of wide-ranging national and international appointments aimed at proposing a broad reflection on technology and society
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Data and Algorithm Ethics
Data and Algorithm Ethics is a Ph.D. research project started at the Nexa Center in collaboration with Fondazione Bruno Kessler.
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SIFIS-HOME
A secure-by-design and consistent software framework to improve the resilience of Interconnected Smart Home Systems at all stack levels.
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Distributed architectures for private and efficient data management
Distributed data management architectures for telecommunications companies.
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Data Bias: Identification of Mitigation and Remediation Strategies, Techniques and Tools
Data Bias is a Ph.D. research project developed by Politecnico di Torino, Softeng research group and Nexa Center
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Festival della Tecnologia
A series of wide-ranging national and international appointments aimed at proposing a broad reflection on technology and society
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Assessment of Open Source Software for Public Administrations
A procedure for assessing and comparing open source software for Public Administrations
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The laws of Connected Drones controlled by the Network
The project focuses on the legal framework for Unmanned Aircraft Systems operations
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Scienza Nuova – Italian Institute for Advanced Studies in Torino “Umberto Eco”
Scienza Nuova, the Italian Institute for Advanced Studies in Torino “Umberto Eco”, is a newly established research institute
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Geranium
Empowering Open Access of Polito publications using Semantics and Deep Learning
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Ethics and Politics of Algorithms
A truly interdisciplinary project that keeps together the engineers and the philosophers of the Nexa Center and the University of Turin
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SUSST – Scienze Umane e Sociali per le Scienze e la Tecnologia
A project that aims at (re)opening a fruitful dialogue between the engineering sciences and the humanities
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Artificial intelligence in TLC: ethical and privacy issues and guidance on the concept of fairness
Artificial intelligence in TLC is a project funded by TIM S.p.A. and developed by the Nexa Center.
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White Paper on Artificial Intelligence
The first Italian document with recommendations and guidelines on how to properly use Artificial Intelligence in the Public Administration.
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Observatory on fake news
Technical table to guarantee pluralism and information correctness on digital platforms
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Punto Zero – Laboratory on critical innovation
Nexa Center has conducted the first research on the role of digital platforms in political electoral campaigns.
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EDU-HACK – Hacking Education through eLearning and Open Education (EU Project)
Hacking Education through eLearning and Open Education
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Power Aware
Lights off, brains on
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Virt-EU – Values and ethics in Innovation for Responsible Technology in Europe (EU Project)
A project to affect the design and development processes of IoT
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DECODE – Decentralised Citizens Owned Data Ecosystem (EU Project)
DECODE is a research & innovation project that won the Horizon 2020 ICT Call 2016
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Knowledge Graphs and Deep Learning
Modeling the semantics of Data Sources with Graph Neural Networks
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CINI – Laboratory for Informatics and Society
Laboratory of the Italian National Inter-University Consortium for Informatics.
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Payment Channel Networks for Blockchain Scalability
Payment Channel Networks for Blockchain Scalability is a research project conducted at the Nexa Center for Internet & Society.
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OpenMed
Building a shared roadmap and strategy concerning the Open Educational Resources with the countries of the MENA region
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MAPO
A project for enabling MAchine ProcessAble pOrtals for Public Administrations
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ContrattiPubblici.org
A tool for exploring public procurement data using Linked Data
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RRI-ICT Forum
Supporting and promoting responsible research and innovation in ICT
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3D Virtual Tour of the Collection of Historical Titles at the Central Library of Engineering
Improving the accessibility of collections of historical titles at the Central Library of Engineering of Politecnico di Torino
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Global Network of Internet & Society Research Centers
A collaborative initiative among academic institutions to the social impact and policy implications of their research agenda.
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Odino
Feasibility study in the context of Open Government Data for enabling collaborative processes to improve data quality and usability
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WikiTrasparenza
A Semantic tool for checking Italian Open Government Data quality in the context of the Transparency Decree (d.lgs33/2013)
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Declarations of Internet Rights
The ongoing work of the study commission established by the Italian Chamber of Deputies.
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MorFEO
A multidisciplinary research project addressing the impact of network discrimination on freedom of expression online
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PASTEUR4OA
Coordination Action encouraging the development of matching policies on Open Access (OA) and Open Data in the European Union
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Open Data Parlamento
A collaborative study to analyze the role of open data (published or reused by) the Italian Parliament, with an international benchmarking
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Legal Aspects of Service Robotics
Which are the prominent legal issues related to service robotics? How could service robots impact on society, including fundamental rights?
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Individual-centric data ecosystem
Exploring new models to empower citizens and users by granting them control on their ‘digital footprint’
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The reform of the EU data protection regulation
An analysis of the impact of the EU Proposal on online behavior and on business strategies.
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Global Network Initiative
A non-governmental organization with the dual goals of preventing Internet censorship and protecting privacy rights of individual.
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Public Domain: Supporting the Libraries and Museum Area of the Politecnico di Torino
Supporting the initiatives of the Libraries and Museum Area of the Politecnico di Torino to increase awareness on the Public Domain
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Share-PSI 2.0
A European Thematic Network to reach consensus on PSI technical standards.
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LAPSI 2.0: Legal Aspects of Public Sector Information 2.0
Consensus building and policy support at the European level, as a follow-up of the LAPSI network
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Internet Governance: IGF Italia 2012
The fifth edition of the Italian Internet Governance Forum has been held in Torino, co-organized by the Nexa Center
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Open Museum and Disability
Leveraging the potential of digital technologies and open data to allow disabled people to better enjoy the Italian cultural heritage
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HOMER
Harmonising Open data in the MEditerranean through better access and Reuse of public sector information
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TellMeFirst – A Knowledge Discovery Application
A tool designed for classifying and enriching textual documents using Linked Open Data
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Open-DAI
Innovating in the Public Sector, using cloud computing and Service-Oriented Architectures to make data available for useful applications
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Cloud Computing in the public sector
Studying legal and organisational implications of cloud computing in the public sector, with a pilot study in Piedmont
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EINS: the European Network of Excellence in Internet Science
Gathering more than 30 academic institutions across Europe and beyond, EINS aims at paving the way towards an integrated ‘Internet Science’
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The role of transparency and accountability online
Contributing the Italian bit to the overall picture of Internet and the role of transparency and accountability online
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Digital Cultural Heritage: from Public Sector to User Generated Content
Bringing the Free Culture and Open Data perspectives in the cultural heritage domain
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Open Government & Digital City
Toward an open, respectful, and smart city
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Opening Italian Data
Making Italian public sector information freely accessible and re-usable (using Piemonte as a pilot case)
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#socialPA
A quali-quantitative analysis of the activities by Municipalities, Provinces and Regions on Facebook and Twitter
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LAPSI – The European Thematic Network about the Legal Aspects of PSI
The first EU-funded thematic network on legal aspects of public sector information, coordinated by the Nexa Center between 2010 and 2012
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EVPSI: Extracting Value from Public Sector Information
A multidisciplinary research project funded by Regione Piemonte in support of Open Government Data policies
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Anonymity Online in Italy and Free WiFi
Making possible and monitoring the impact of anonymous wireless access to the Internet
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Internet & Democracy: Biennale Democrazia
Bringing an Internet & Democracy perspective within the “Biennial of Democracy”
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University in the Digital Age
Re-thinking the University’s role in Society in the Networked Age
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The Neubot Project
An Internet bot software designed to gather network performance data useful to quantify Internet protocol discrimination
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Privacy and teenagers’ online behavior
A review of the existing literature and an empirical research on teenagers’ behavior online, focused on the related legal implications
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Communia: the International Association on the Public Domain
An international association to foster, strengthen, and enrich the Public Domain
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Open Access
Performing research and policy support in the field of Open Access to scientific information at national and European level
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SeLiLi: the Free Licenses Service Clinic
Supporting the use of open licenses by providing ad-hoc information on legal issues
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Geography of the Web
Project for the development of techniques for the place-of-origin estimation of a Web page
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Creative Commons Italia
The Italian affiliate of Creative Commons, a non-profit organization that enables the spread of knowledge and creativity through free legal