The MOD’s Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE) is seeking applications that explore human and social behavior in the virtual worlds of cyberspace. 

There is growing interest in defence activities that draw upon human behaviour and attitudes and how they are revealed. Whilst capabilities to analyse and understand human behaviours and attitudes do exist, these have focused on people in the physical world; there has been relatively little emphasis on how behaviours and attitudes are shown, and can be shaped by, online activity within the 'new media' of cyberspace. 
                                                                                                                  
Cyberspace thus represents a new and challenging area of research and a domain within which Influence can be exerted.

The CDE will host a seminar on 22nd April 2010 to further describe this area of investigation. The competition will open on this date and applications are to be made through the CDE portal.  A competition brief will be produced for the seminar and will be available on the website from this date.  

Companies are strongly advised to attend the seminar to hear firsthand the challenge