Registration now open for AIT’s 2025 Forum on Norms for the Digital Age
Places are now available for AIT’s 2025 Forum on Norms of the Digital Age from Students to States. The Forum will take place from 10am-5pm on Tuesday 28 January 2025 in the Livery Hall of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists and online. Highlights include keynote speeches from Professor Rich Ling and journalist Bill Thompson as well as insights from distingushed guests such as Sir Ken Olisa.
Archives of IT inaugural Forum on the Histories of the Internet 2024
On 9 January 2024 AIT held the first of an annual series of forums on the histories of the internet and our networked digital society (read more button goes to highlights). On this page you can read all the talks by a multi-disciplinary set of academics, practitioners and leaders from civil society, business, industry, and government.
Stories of the Internet from the pioneers who made it happen
This feature, published in November 2023, charts some of the history and current developments of the internet and formed the backdrop to the AIT Forum on the Histories of the Internet. Looking through our archive we can map many of the significant developments from initial ideas to tests as well as its commercialisation, initial uses and benefits and risks to society.