RUI’s evidence-driven research holds government policymakers and self-regulated technologies and corporations, publicly accountable for reasonably protecting people from online harm.
RUI is pioneering new research tools to address the many unaddressed, Wild West Internet, macro questions and problems that warrant answers and solutions.
MacroInternetics Research: is the study of the Internet and its policies/designs’ unusual systemic dynamics — i.e., incentives/disincentives; causes/effects; scale/scope; and help/harm — to understand their impacts on humanity, values, society, government, technology, and the economy.
Help-Harm Analysis: complements static, quantitative, and economic, cost-benefit analysis, with dynamic, qualitative, and people-centric, Help-Harm analysis. Together they can assess if an Internet policy/design helps people via prevention, protection, service, improvements, remedies etc.; and/or if it harms via endangerment, injury, damage, impairment, corruption, suffering etc.