Welcome to the BKC Open House 2020!
We encourage you to visit with as many of the projects that you are interested in via their respective links. You may move between them freely.
* Please note that the projects will be presenting a 10 minute overview of their work at the top of each half hour (3:30, 4:00, 4:30), followed by 20 minutes for open Q+A.
If you have more general questions or just need a little help navigating, please visit the BKC Information Booth.
We look forward to seeing you!
The BKC Policy Practice on Artificial Intelligence is a public interest-oriented program that helps governmental, nonprofit, and private sector organizations implement AI best practices and turn AI principles into operational realities.
The global Network of Internet & Society Centers (NoC) is a collaborative initiative among academic institutions with a focus on interdisciplinary research on the development, social impact, policy implications, and legal issues concerning the Internet.
Digital Pandemic Response (DPR)
Digital Pandemic Response is an interdisciplinary program that works with public and private decision makers on urgent questions and policy decisions around the use of digital tools and data to help attenuate the COVID-19 pandemic.
BKC Fellows Program and Student Research Assistant Program
Fellowship Program: Each year the Center welcomes a new class of fellows to join the Center’s community to come together to hone and share ideas, find camaraderie, and spawn new initiatives.
An idea foundry, knowledge-design lab, and production studio, metaLAB (at) Harvard explores the digital arts and humanities through research, teaching, publications, and exhibitions. Our work infuses traditional modes of academic inquiry with an enterprising spirit of hacking, making, and creative research.
The Youth and Media project (YaM)
The Youth and Media (YaM) project at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University takes a closer look at young people and the dynamics of their interaction with digital technologies. Working closely with international organizations, NGOs, governments, and colleagues in academia, our team seeks to make a significant contribution to the field of youth and digital media research and to provide decision-makers with guidance around these issues.
Lumen, the Berkman Klein Center’s longest-running project, is a rapidly growing database of almost fifteen million requests to remove material from the web or from search results. These requests are primarily grounded in copyright law, but also include court orders and requests predicated on violations of law in countries other than the US, as well as other types.
The Assembly Program brings together participants from academia, industry, government, and civil society from across disciplines to explore disinformation in the digital public sphere. The program is designed to bring together cohorts of experts, professionals, and students to better understand, and actively address, complex issues of disinformation.
Media Cloud is a consortium research project across multiple institutions, including the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Northeastern University. It is an open source, open data platform that allows researchers to answer complex quantitative and qualitative questions about the content of online media.
Harvard Law School‘s Cyberlaw Clinic, based at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, provides pro bono legal services at the intersection of technology and social justice. Participation in the Cyberlaw Clinic helps law students prepare for practice by working on real-world client counseling, advocacy, litigation, and transactional projects.
The Library Innovation Lab (LIL) at Harvard Law School Library. Here we'll share an overview of our lab and main projects: Caselaw Access Project (CAP), H2O and Perma
Nymity, learning to learn about self in community by exploring the domain between anonymity and public surveillance. This session will include an introduction to Threads.
The BKC Race+Tech+Media working group focuses on intersections of race, racism, and racial justice with technologies, media, and artificial intelligences.
The Web Integrity Project (WIP) monitors changes to government websites, holding the government accountable by revealing shifts in public information and access to web resources.
The Privacy Tools Project is a broad effort to advance a multidisciplinary understanding of data privacy issues and build computational, statistical, legal, and policy tools to help address these issues in a variety of contexts.
Global Access in Action (GAiA)
Global Access in Action (GAiA) is a dynamic global health non-profit organization that focuses on improving access to lifesaving medicines in low- and middle-income countries through the implementation of legal, policy, and regulatory reform.
The Algorithms and Justice research track is focused on the ways government institutions incorporate artificial intelligence, algorithms, and machine learning technologies into their decision-making.
