Niels ten Oever

Niels ten Oever (born 1 July 1983 in Meppel) is an Assistant Professor at the European Studies department at the University of Amsterdam. He is connected as a Visiting Professor to the Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro. Ten Oever is one of three Principal Investigators of the critical infrastructure lab.
Research
Ten Oever's research interests are mainly connected to telecommunication and internet infrastructure governance. His research mainly covers communication technologies that are standardized, governed, and coordinated in the Internet Engineering Taskforce, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, RIPE NCC, the International Telecommunications Union, and the 3GPP.
His research combines qualitative and quantitative methods. He has published over a dozen peer-reviewed academic publications in journals such as New Media and Society, Information, Communication & Society, Globalizations, Policy & Internet, Internet Policy Review, and others.
Internet governance
Ten Oever has been active in the Internet Research Taskforce (IRTF) where he co-authored several RFCs, mostly focusing on the relation between human rights and internet protocols. Niels is co-founder and former chair of both the Human Rights Protocol Considerations (hrpc) Research Group and the Research and Analysis of Standard-Setting Processes (rasp) Research Group in the IRTF, and a veteran of the Internet Research Steering group (IRSG). He served as Vice-Chair for the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (giga-net) and as the final editor of the Tao of the IETF. specifically as rapporteur for the CCWG-Accountability Work Stream 2 human rights subgroup that developed the Framework of Interpretation for ICANNs human rights bylaw.
Books
Ten Oever co-authored How the Internet Really Works, an illustrated book that seeks to explain the technical and governance underpinning of the internet infrastructure. The book was originally written in English and has been translated into Ukrainian, Polish, Korean, German, and French.
Ten Oever published his dissertation 'Wired Norms: Inscription, resistance, and subversion in the governance of the Internet infrastructure'.
Grants
For his research, Ten Oever has obtained grants from the Internet Society Foundation, the Open Technology Fund, and the Ford Foundation.

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