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.law.harvard.edu
• phone - 717.919.3145
• gtalk - erhardt@gmail.com

Role in the team:

• Field study focus in Educational Materials.

Weekly tasks and results:

week of 02/23/2009:

• Task - Complete personal page at the teamspace - with contact information and this list of tasks
  • deadline: Monday (Carol suggestion: check Brendan and Andrew personal page and follow same structure)
    • Carol feedback -
• Task - Look at peer production list to see if we can utilize their research to help our research - mainly to identify Cases 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 (share work with Adam)
    • Carol feedback -
• Task - Make an initial list of relevant bibliography for field study and insert under resources/bibliography - 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 bibliograpfy 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: This will be an ongoing task, but I want first results presented next Wednesday.
• task: Read 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
  • deadline: Friday, 7th of March - read and make summaries of this bibliography in a way that is useful for the research outline
• Task - Come to the event The future is in the margins, take notes and share with the group
  • deadline: after the event, report your notes to the group

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