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Computer Science Professor James Mickens brings transformative ideas about security and trust, mentoring leadership, and social impact advocacy to BKC board; HBS emeritus professor John Deighton leaves board after twelve years of far-reaching service More
BKC is pleased to announce incoming and returning fellows, faculty associates, and affiliates for the 2020-2021 academic year. More
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The tech field failed a 25-year challenge to achieve gender equality by 2020 – culture change is key to getting on track
Francine Berman shares her personal story in tech, and how the field can change
Are We Already Living in a Tech Dystopia?
Gizmodo asks experts, including Jonathan Zittrain, for their answers
Education monitoring tech soars as result of Covid-19
Leah Plunkett discusses privacy concerns about online education
The term ‘ethical AI’ is finally starting to mean something
VentureBeat cites paper from Elettra Bietti
How Zeynep Tufekci Keeps Getting the Big Things Right
Zeyenp Tufecki featured in The New York Times
Police Monitoring Of Social Media Sparks Concerns In Black And Brown Communities
Desmond Patton interviewed by NPR about police monitoring social media
UK Court Spurns Police in First Legal Test of Face Recognition
Nani Jansen Reventlow comments on legal challenge to the use of facial recognition
Beware of Apps Bearing Gifts in a Pandemic
Researchers share concerns about free services and public health interventions by tech companies
Featured Projects
See all Projects & ToolsNetwork of Interdisciplinary Internet & Society Research Centers
A collaborative initiative focused on interdisciplinary research on the development, social impact, policy implications… More
AI: Educational Activities
The Berkman Klein Center has worked to build a robust community and institutional activities leveraging… More
Youth and Media
Youth and Media (YaM) encompasses an array of research, advocacy, and development initiatives around youth (age 12-18)… More
The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is dedicated to exploring, understanding, and shaping the way we use technology
Featured Topics
See all TopicsEthics and Governance of AI
The rapidly growing capabilities and increasing presence of AI-based systems in our lives raise pressing questions about the impact, governance, ethics, and accountability of these technologi… More
Internet Health
Censorship, filtering, throttling, dead links, blockages. The health of the Internet can be measured by the ease with which its users can access and share information. We develop tools and research to… More
Governance of Technology & the Internet
Networked technologies are complex, multi-layered, interdependent, and subject to multiple competing interests. Through original research and by creating connections between stakeholders, we work to… More
Privacy & Security
Privacy violations are a serious threat to the health of the Internet and the effective use of technology. We study how people understand their privacy as users of technology, examine and document the… More
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Data Alliances
Christo Wilson and Rebecca Weiss present the state of online measurement platforms as they exist today, why they are… More
Contact Tracing and Technology: A Deep Dive
BKC co-hosts conversation on digital data and public health More
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[Virtual] The Pandemic As a Portal
Video & Podcast: Three projects dedicated to capturing and documenting the new possible will talk about their… More
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[Virtual] Data and COVID-19
Health data, contact tracing, and misinformation More