Berkman Center Accepting Nominations for First-Ever Berkman Awards

Cambridge, MA – The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School is accepting nominations for the first Berkman Awards. The awards will be presented to people or institutions that have made a significant contribution to the Internet and its impact on society over the past decade.

The primary awardee will receive $50,000, and five smaller awards will be given in specific categories such as: human rights/global advocacy; academic and intellectual leadership; pro bono work; infrastructure/communications tools; arts/culture/media; and news/information/journalism.

There are no conditions placed on how the award money must be spent. Nominations for the award will be accepted from the public until April 11, 2008. To nominate someone for these awards, please visit our awards submission page at http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/berkmanat10/awards.

The finalists for the awards will be determined by the nominating committee, which includes:
Tod Cohen, eBay; Laura DeBonis, Google; Tim Ehrlich, Gunderson Dettmer; John Forry, donor, Berkman Center Faculty Library; Julius Genachowski, Rock Creek Ventures; and David Hornik, August Capital.

The winners will be determined by a committee headed by Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan.

The gala dinner and awards presentation will be the finale of the Berkman Center’s tenth anniversary celebration, Berkman@10, and mark the end of the Berkman@10 conference, a landmark event on "The Future of the Internet," in Cambridge, MA, May 15-16, 2008.

The Berkman Center launched Berkman@10 in September 2007 to celebrate the Center’s first decade of exploring cyberspace and pioneering its development. Events leading up to the landmark conference are being held over the course of the 2007-2008 academic year.

Information about Berkman@10, including conference registration and gala registration, can be found at http://www.berkmanat10.org. For more information about attending the gala dinner, please contact Catherine Bracy at cbracy@cyber.harvard.edu.

About the Berkman Center
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School is proud to celebrate its tenth anniversary as a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. Founded in 1997, through a generous gift from Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman, the center is now home to an ever-growing community of faculty, fellows, staff and affiliates working on projects that span the broad range of intersections between cyberspace, technology and society. More information can be found at http://cyber.harvard.edu.

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