Join Berkman Center Research Associate Tim Hwang and Research Assistant Catherine White for a session open to all to discuss this year's theme: One Web. For all.
Lee Dirks - Director, Education & Scholarly Communication / Microsoft External Research
In the future, frontier research in many fields will increasingly require the collaboration of globally distributed groups of researchers needing access to distributed computing,…
Professor Calestous Juma, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
The launching of Seacom’s fiber optic cable in July was the single most important infrastructure investment in eastern Africa since the construction of the Uganda Railway, then…
This workshop seeks to bring a fresh perspective to the complex and widely debated topic of the Google Book Search Settlement. It will examine the idea of possible alternative…
Alexander Macgillivray, Deputy General Counsel for Products and Intellectual Property at Google (and soon to be General Counsel of Twitter), will discuss the Google Book Search…
Where in the world are people using Creative Commons licenses? How much content is licensed under Creative Commons and what are the individual, social and cultural factors that…
Aaron Shaw will discuss who's using Amazon's Mechanical Turk, its implications for social scientists, the future of labor markets, and life on the Internet as we know it.
Ben Wikler from Avaaz.org will discuss Avvaz.org's approach to online political organizing by nimbly aggregating small actions by individuals around the world into focused…
Much enthusiasm surrounds the opportunities made available by digital media for people to express themselves and participate in the public sphere without having to go through…
The Open Video Conference will bring together video creators, technologists, academics, filmmakers, entrepreneurs, activists, remixers, and many others. to discuss the growing…
The Internet & Democracy presents the Berkman Center's new research on the Arabic blogosphere, which analyzes over 10,000 blogs from 18 countries and which follows last year's …
Beth Kolko will present an examination of what are essentially fictional definitions (what is "the Internet," "an Internet user," a "mobile phone") and discusses how the same…
with Berkman Fellows Doc Searls and David Weinberger, and Berkman faculty co-director Jonathan Zittrain
On the tenth anniversary of The Cluetrain Manifesto, how's all that freedom, that cyberutopianism, that Internet exceptionalism working out for you? Harvard Law professor and co…
In his lunchtime talk, Lewis Hyde will trace the roots of the second enclosure (it goes back at least to the invention of printing); he will describe traditional forms of…
Since 2006, the annual Beyond Broadcast conference has explored the evolution of participatory digital public media. This year's conference, titled "Public Service Media from…
Drawing on the Global Voices project as an exemplar, Lokman Tsui will argue that we need to move beyond objectivity towards "hospitality" in pursuing the potential of journalism…
Cloud computing leaves users vulnerable to significant invasions of privacy by the government, resulting in the evisceration of traditional Fourth Amendment protections. Chris…
Information Superhighway is Boston's monthly party gathering hackers, activists, artists, designers, nonprofits, startups, academics and general geekery to hang out and connect…
Aaron Shaw - Polanyi's Penguin? Commons-Based Industry in the Neoliberal Knowledge Economy; Colleen Kaman - The World in the Network; Rasmus Kleis Nielsen - Mundane Tools and…
