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THE VOX INTERNET RESEARCH PROGRAM
Vox Internet is a scientific pr ogram of the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris,
with support in 2004-05 from the French Ministry of Research. This program is part of a set of works
dedicated to the relations between technologies and society, grouped togeth er within TEMATIC, one of the
programs of MSH-DEVAR (Diffusion, Expérime ntation, Valorisation de la recherche).
Vox Internet took on the objective of providing support for and increasing the visibility of French
and European research on the role of Internet in the building of "knowledge societie s," a plural reality that
encompasses and goes beyond the notions of info rmation society and communication society.
A first seminar was dedicated to Internet governa nce, a subject brought to light by the current
World Summit on the Information Society.
The present document constitutes the report established at the end of a series of sessions held from
September 2004 to January 2005. It makes no claim to exhaustiveness on this co mplex research topic,
often approached with bias due to the lack of a common interface for the applied disciplinary approaches
and due to the abundant non-academic remarks made on the considered theme.
This document corresponds to a first experimental step in a work of identifying, deepening and
discussing the issue. This work will continue in 2005 and beyond.
A web portal has been online sin ce 30 June 2005 at the address www.voxinternet.fr . This portal
will accompany and encourage the continued scientific studies.
During the first half of 2006, a second series of seminars will be held. The organization of an
international colloquium is also being planned.