User:EGraeff

Resume:

Erhardt Graeff is a research assistant within the Institutional Cooperation Research Group project and a recent MPhil graduate from the University of Cambridge, where he focused on sociological theory and qualitative examination of rural internet use and social capital. In various forms/fora, he has researched and written on digital divides, e-government, networked public spheres, new media literacy, and Wikipedia. Occasionally, he flexes his web programming skills gained while an IT student at Rochester Institute of Technology, but right now he would rather work on his Russian than his Ruby.

Contact data:

• email - egraeff [at] cyber [dot] law [dot] harvard [dot] edu
• phone - 717.919.3145
• gtalk - erhardt [at] gmail [dot] com

Role in the team:

• Field study focus in Educational Materials

Recent activity on wiki:

• Special:Contributions/EGraeff

Weekly tasks and results:

week of 03/02/2009:

• task: Complete personal page on the wiki with contact information and this list of tasks
  • deadline: Monday, 03/02/2009 (Carol suggestion: check Brendan and Andrew personal page and follow same structure)
  • status: completed (03/02)
    • Carol feedback:

• task: Look at peer production list to see if we can utilize their research to help our research, mainly to identify Cases (Educational Materials#Cases of Study) that we will go deeper later--list cases, write link and a paragraph--submit them to Carol and decide with her which ones are relevant for later "dive"
  • deadline: Monday, 03/02/2009 (share work with Adam)
  • status: in progress (03/04)
    • Carol feedback:

• task: Make an initial bibliography for field study and insert under Educational Materials#Bibliography addressing research outline--submit them to Carol and decide with her which ones are relevant and need to be summarized in AcaWiki.org. This list of bibliography should fill the necessities of the research outline attached. (Organize bibliography in the same order as the research outline). (P.S. do not worry with economics of IP; just if you find something specific for the educational materials field; so focus from topic 1 in the outline)
  • deadline: Wednesday, 03/04/2009 (first results) / this will be an ongoing task
  • status: in progress (03/04)
    • Carol feedback:

• task: Define research schedule for the next several weeks, with specific attention to commitments to work on-site at Berkman Squared
  • deadline: Friday, 03/13/2009 (or ASAP)
  • status: in progress (03/04)
    • Carol feedback:

• task: Attend The future is in the margins, take notes, and share with the group
  • deadline: After the event
  • status: event postponed
    • Carol feedback:

• supplemental reading: David, Paul A., 1993, Intellectual property institutions and the panda's thumb: patents, copyrights, and trade secrets in economic theory and history, in: M. Wallerstein, M. Mogee and R. Schoen (eds.), Global Dimensions of Intellectual Property Protection in Science and Technology, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C
  • status: in progress (03/04)

• supplemental reading: IPR course materials from Carolina
  • status: unread (03/04)

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