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Johnny Ryan
Senior Researcher
johnny.ryan@iiea.com
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Johnny's next book, A History of the Internet and the Digital Future, examines the history of the Internet and the new medium's implications for the future of business, politics, and society. It is due for publication by Reaktion Books in September 2010 - more info at www.theHistoryoftheInternet.net.
He has written on nerd norms, violent radicalisation, and digital policy in OpenDemocracy, Europe's World, the Irish Times, NATO Review, RUSI/Janes Defence Monitor, Studies in Conflict & Terror, and has contributed expert comment for BBC World, Reuters, and Associated Press and at expert workshops organized by various governments and organisations including at the UN, OSCE, and European Commission. In December 2008, the Tanaiste (deputy Prime Minister) launched his strategic report, The Next Leap: A competitive Ireland in the digital era.
Johnny Ryan is a Senior Researcher at the IIEA and an O'Reilly Foundation Scholar at Magdalene College, Cambridge.
Books & major reports:
A History of the Internet and the Digital Future (Reaktion Press, Autumn 2010)
The Next Leap: A Competitive Ireland in the Digital Era (IIEA strategic report, December 2008)
Countering Militant Islamist Radicalisation on the Internet: A User Driven Strategy to Recover the Web (IIEA, 2007).
Speeches/presentations:
Speaker: “The Internet, Intelligence, the Perpetual Beta, and the State: The Long View of The New Medium”, Study Group on Intelligence (SGI)@RUSI, 29 January 2010 [watch hi def video]
Speaker: "The Internet and the State", Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, 26 January 2010
Speaker: “Non-legislative measures against violent radical content on the Internet”, Public private dialogue to fight online illegal activities, European Commission, Brussels, 27 November 2009
Speaker: “The Internet & militant Islamist radicalisation: understanding the medium”, Club of Berne annual workshop, 5 June 2009
Speaker: “The Internet & militant Islamist radicalisation: Rethinking the medium (Metcalfe’s Law, the Long Tail and realistic, limited objectives)”, Corpus Christi Intelligence Seminar, University of Cambridge, 30 January 2009
Speaker: "The Internet & militant Islamist radicalisation”, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, 1 December 2008
Speaker: "An open Internet as a tool for countering violent extremism", UN Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force Working Group on Countering the Use of the Internet for Terrorist Purposes Stakeholders’ Meeting, New York, 11 November 2008
Speaker: “A strategy against online radicalisation: Respect the medium - challenge the message”, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, 21 July 2008
Speaker: “Internet governance - why openness is security!”, Swiss Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs Counter Terror Conference, Geneva, 28-29 April 2008
Speaker: Police Service of Northern Ireland C3 Special Branch Conference, Belfast, 39 March-1 April 2008
Speaker: “The Internet: empowering end users to seize the new high ground”, Pluscarden Conference, St. Anthony’s, Oxford, 15 March 2008
Keynote speaker: OSCE Action Against Terrorism Unit Seminar on Incitement to Terror, Vienna, November 2007 [read transcript of remarks at the OSCE Experts Workshop]
Participant: Netherlands’ Counter terrorism Coordinator’s Conference, the Hague, October 2007
Irish Government’s National Expert: Euromed conference on “preventing incitement to terrorism and radicalisation: what role for the media?”, 21 May 2007
Lecture: “Key issues in European Union external relations”, the European Commission Representation in Ireland, December 2006
Guest chair: “Identity: Ireland within Europe”, Trinity College Dublin Historical Society, October 2006
Speaker: “The new justice & home affairs policy architecture”, Law Society Conference, University of Cork, December 2005
Oral Brief: “Themes of Islamist militant internet discussion”, Cambridge Intelligence Seminar, 2005
Publications, chapters & papers:
“The Internet, the Perpetual Beta, and the State: The Long View of The New Medium”, Studies in Conflict and Terror, vol. 33, no. 8, August 2010
(with Stefan Halper) “Google vs China: capitalist model, virtual wall“, OpenDemocracy, 22 January 2010
"The Promise and Practice of Two Way Politics", IIEA final report to the European Parliament DG Info, January 2010
“The Internet: empowering end users to seize the new high ground”, in Steve Tsang (ed.), Combating Transnational Terrorism: Searching for a New Paradigm, Praeger, 2009
“The Next Leap: Competitive Ireland in the Digital Era”, IIEA report presented to An Tanaiste (deputy Irish Prime Minister), December 2008
(with Joseph Curtin), “The Lisbon treaty and the Irish voter: democratic deficits”, OpenDemocracy, 16 June 2008
“Norms on the Net: Governing the Internet and the perils of failure”, NthPosition online magazine, 21/5/2008
“iWar: pirates, states and the internet”, OpenDemocracy, 06/2/2008
“iWar: A new threat, its convenience, and our increasing vulnerability”, NATO Review, Winter 2007
“Ideas at war: militant Islamist rhetoric”, Journal of Information Warfare, vol 6, issue 3.
“Islamist militants’ calls to violence: four P-words (Persecution, Precedent, Piety and Perseverance) in common with Irish Republicanism”, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, vol. 30, issue 11, November 2007
“iWar”, Technology, Commerce, Society Daily TCSDaily, 13 August 2007
“Web filtering is flawed terror response”, Oxford Analytica Daily Brief Services, 10 August 2007
“Countering militant radicalisation on the Internet”, RUSI/Jane’s Defence Homeland Security & Resilience Monitor, 8 August 2007
“The militant Islamist call and its echo”, OpenDemocracy, 1 August 2007
“EU should take its anti-terrorism fight to the Internet”, Europe’s World policy dossier on security and defence (Summer, issue 6, 2007)