The World Internet Project (WIP) is an international collaborative research project involving institutions from more than 30 countries that are working to analyze the social, economic and political transformations associated with the evolution of digital uses. The main objective of the WIP is to agree on a set of common questions to be included in these national surveys, in order to have internationally comparable indicators.
The WIP regularly publishes a summary report, based on data collected in member countries. The last report, published in 2013 took into account the results of national surveys from 8 countries: Cyprus, Mexico, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Sweden , Taiwan and the United States.
Until 2014, France was represented by the Centre de recherches politiques de Sciences Po (CEVIPOF). In 2015, the Breton observatory of digital uses M@rsouin took over from CEVIPOF.
The WIP regularly publishes a summary report, based on data collected in member countries. The last report, published in 2013 took into account the results of national surveys from 8 countries: Cyprus, Mexico, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Sweden , Taiwan and the United States.
Countries represented in the World Internet Project
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Every year, the WIP network meets to define common questions to be included in national surveys, in order to obtain a set of indicators allowing international comparisons.
The annual meeting of the World Internet Project (WIP) took place this year in Taipei, Taiwan, from 1er to July 5. It was organized by the Taiwan E-Governance Research Center. Margot Beauchamps, who represented M@rsouin at this meeting, commented on the M@rsouin website the issues and highlights of this meeting.
[su_quote]The objective of the meeting was to reach agreement on the common issues that are at the heart of the WIP project [..] While the less relevant issues were easily dropped, there are still some issues or question wordings that need to be retained to ensure continuity in the measurement of digital uses, especially for the founding members of the WIP. [...]In terms of added questions, part of the discussion focused on the importance of measuring the digital skills of Internet users, one of the main determinants of many uses, according to members who had already included a component of questions on this topic in their survey. [...]The choice to add to the common questions a table of a few questions on the digital skills of Internet users has been made [...]. The indicators of digital skills were validated in several languages by cognitive interviews aimed at seeing how the respondents understood the questions on digital skills, how they answered them, answers that were partly compared with tests of skills in real life. [...]This WIP meeting was also an opportunity for a real international transfer of skills between research centers on digital uses. [/su_quote]The question of the public opening of survey data was also addressed. " If the data from the survey that M@rsouin will conduct by the end of the year with a sample of the French population (financed within the framework of the ANR Capacity project) will be made public, this will not be the case for all the data from the WIP, as each member of the network has its own constraints.
