The World Internet Project (WIP) is a collaborative intellectual endeavor among a number of academic institutions to study the social, economic and political impact of the Internet.
The World Internet Project was founded in 1999 at the UCLA Center for Communication Policy (now the USC Annenberg School Center for the Digital Future) and was founded with the NTU School of Communication Studies in Singapore and the Osservatorio Internet Italia at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Its purpose was to study the impact of the Internet in national and international communities.
Based at universities and research institutes around the world, the WIP conducts detailed research, generates a wealth of publications and holds annual conferences looking at the impact of these new technologies. The WIP carries out detailed panel surveys that aim to study how the Internet is used in people's everyday lives and what implications this has. Each member institution conducts regular sample surveys of internet use and non-use in the its country, including a series of core questions agreed-upon by the WIP. The critical defining characteristics of this research are that it is longitudinal, enables cross-country comparison and includes both internet users and non-users.
The WIP publishes international and national reports on Internet usage and behaviors based on these survey results. The reports are available on the WIP website and on each member institution's website.
List updated March 17, 2014
Australia - ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI), Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology
Austria - Commission for Comparative Media and Communication Studies (CMC)
Brazil - Instituto Brasileiro de Economia e Tecnologia (Brazilian Economics and Technology Institute)
Canada - Canadian Internet Project (CIP). Recherche Internet Canada (RIC)
Cape Verde - Inove Research
Chile - School of Communications, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile (UC)
China - China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC)
Colombia - CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN DE LAS TELECOMUNICACIONES (CINTEL)
Croatia - Innovation Institute
Cyprus - Cyprus University of Technology Faculty of Applied Arts and Communication, Department of Communication and Internet Studies
Czech Republic - Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague
Ecuador - Universidad de los Hemisferios (University of the Hemispheres)
France - Center for Political Research
Georgia - Ilia State University (ISU)
Germany - Wissenschaftliches Institut für Infrastruktur und Kommunikationsdienste (Research Institute for Infrastructure and Communication Services)
Hungary - ITHAKA- Information Society and Network Research Center
India - School of Journalism and New Media Studies, IGNOU
Iran - Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics, University of Alzahra
Israel - The Research Center for Internet Psychology (CIP) Sammy Ofer School of Communications, The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC)
Italy - SDA Bocconi, Bocconi University
Japan - Department of Media and Communications, Toyo University
Macao - University of Macao
Mexico - Tecnológico de Monterrey
New Zealand - Institute of Culture, Discourse & Communication, Auckland University of Technology
Poland - Gazeta.pl Research and Analyses Unit
Portugal - Lisbon Internet and Networks International Research Programme (LINI)
Qatar - Northwestern University in Qatar
Russia - Sholokhov Moscow State University for Humanities
Singapore - Singapore Internet Research Centre (SiRC), Nanyang Technological University
South Africa - South African Network Society Survey, Wits Journalism, University of Witwatersrand
South Korea - Yonsei University
Spain - Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3 - Open University of Catalonia (UOC)
Sweden - The Internet Foundation In Sweden, IIS
Switzerland - Division on Media Change & Innovation, IPMZ – Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich
Taiwan - Taiwan e-Governance Research Center, Department of Public Administration, National Chengchi University
United Arab Emirates - Mass Communication Department- American University of Sharjah
United Kingdom - Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
United States - Center for the Digital Future, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Uruguay - Universidad Catolica del Uruguay
