Weekly Events and Digital Media Roundup

BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
September 16, 2009 // Upcoming events and digital media

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[1] [FRIDAY 9/18] Transforming Scholarly Communication with Lee Dirks, Director, Education & Scholarly Communication / Microsoft External Research (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2009/09/dirks)

[2] [TUESDAY 9/22] OneWebDay: Working Space Mash-up brainstorming session, Party, and More (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2009/09/onewebday)

[3] [WEDNESDAY 9/23/09] Communication and Human Development: The Freedom Connection? with Nobel Laureates Amartya Sen and Michael Spence, Yochai Benkler, and Clotilde Fonseca; sponsored by Canada's International Development Research Centre (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2009/09/idrc?utm_source=Berkman&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=WklyEvents3)

[FRIDAY 9/18] TRANSFORMING SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION
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9/18/09, 1:15 PM ET, Pound Hall Room 100, Harvard Law School
RSVP requested via: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dDJKcl9fM3lqY2xlcWI2cW1FVWZyenc6MA..
This event is co-sponsored by the Harvard Business School Knowledge and Library Services, Harvard Law School Library, and the Office for Scholarly Communication.
This event will be webcast live.

Topic: Transforming Scholarly Communication
Guest: 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, data resources and support for remote access to expensive, multi-national specialized facilities such as telescopes and accelerators or specialist data archives. There is also a general belief that an important road to innovation will be provided by multi-disciplinary and collaborative research – from bio-informatics and earth systems science to social science and archeology. There will also be an explosion in the amount of research data collected in the next decade - petabytes will be common in many fields. These future research requirements constitute the 'eResearch' agenda. Powerful software services will be widely deployed on top of the academic research networks to form the necessary 'Cyberinfrastructure' to provide a collaborative research environment for the global academic community.

This talk will review the elements of this vision and explain the need for semantic-oriented computing by exploring eResearch projects that have successfully applied relevant technologies—and anticipated impact on scholarly communication as we know it today. It will also suggest that a software + service model with scientific services delivered from the cloud will become an increasingly accepted model for research.

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2009/09/dirks

[TUESDAY 9/22/09] CELEBRATE ONE WEB DAY
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Tuesday, 9/22/09, 1:30-4:00 PM
Harvard Law School, Lewis International Law Center, Room 202.

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.

Ideas, brainstorming - anyone interested is welcome. Please RSVP to our Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/editevent.php?picture&eid=131944597611&created&new&m=1#/event.php?eid=131944597611) or by emailing the Berkman Center at cwhite@cyber.harvard.edu with OWD in the subject header.

September 22, 6 pm OneWebDay party!

Celebrate the Internet. We'll be gathering for some post-brainstorming informal drinks at John Harvard's Brew House at 33 Dunster Street, Cambrdge, MA. No need to RSVP - just show up and have fun!

More information: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2009/09/onewebday

[WEDNESDAY 9/23/09] COMMUNICATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: THE FREEDOM CONNECTION?
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Wednesday, 9/23/09, 7:00PM ET, Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School
Sponsored by Canada's International Development Research Centre
Free and open to the public; live video and audio-only streams will also be available.
http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2009/09/idrc?utm_source=Berkman&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=WklyEvents3

Topic: Communication and Human Development: The Freedom Connection?
Guests: Amartya Sen, Michael Spence, Yochai Benkler, Clotilde Fonseca

Nobel Laureates Amartya Sen and Michael Spence will join leading Information and Communication Technology (ICT) experts Yochai Benkler and Clotilde Fonseca in a public discussion of the role of communication and ICTs in human development, growth and poverty reduction. What has changed, been learned, not been learned, needs to be learned, needs to be done most urgently? Panelists and the in-person and online audiences will debate a range of topics, including:

* Communications and the technologies that enable them, like education, comprise a basic building block of human development at all levels of poverty/prosperity and freedoms.

* The “connectedness revolution” is a major dimension of globalization, with the expansions and contractions of prosperity and freedoms that globalization causes for different peoples.

* Communications, enabled by ICTs, are increasing informed public dialogue and debate in many countries and societies.

* Informed public debate at national and international levels will be essential in achieving solutions to global warming, and better management of the global economy.

* Crisis prevention and management – financial, economic, pandemic, natural disaster – are being improved by ICT-enabled communication and information delivery.

* Openness is always better than protection in principal; how far can it reach in practice?

Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, at Harvard University and was until recently the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He has served as President of the Econometric Society, the Indian Economic Association, the American Economic Association and the International Economic Association. In 1998, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

Michael Spence is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of Management in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He is the chairman of the independent Commission on Growth and Development, focusing on growth in developing countries. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001 and the John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economics Association in 1981.

Yochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Before joining the faculty at Harvard Law School, he was Joseph M. Field '55 Professor of Law at Yale. He writes about the Internet and the emergence of networked economy and society, as well as the organization of infrastructure, such as wireless communications.

Clotilde Fonseca is a Founding Director of the Costa Rican Program of Educational Informatics created in 1988 in Costa Rica by the Omar Dengo Foundation and the Ministry of Public Education, a program that has reached over one and half million children and teachers during its more than two decades of work. She has been Executive Director of the Omar Dengo Foundation from its founding in 1987 to 1994 and from 1996 to present.

Michael L. Best will moderate the session. Dr. Best is an assistant professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology where he is a researcher with the GVU Center.

Optional RSVP via Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/editevent.php?picture&eid=124927576447&new&m=3#/event.php?eid=124927576447) or Upcoming (http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4405330/?ps=5)

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2009/09/idrc?utm_source=Berkman&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=WklyEvents3

OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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[1] 9/19: Software Freedom Day (http://softwarefreedomday.org/about)

[2] 9/22-24: EmTech 2009 // MIT (http://www.technologyreview.com/emtech/09/index.aspx)

[3] 9/25-27: The 37th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy // Arlington, VA (http://www.tprcweb.com/)

[4] 9/27: Open Government Hack Day // Cambridge, MA (http://opengovhackday.pbworks.com/)

[5] 10/4-6: Future of Music Coalition: Policy Summit // Washington, DC (http://futureofmusic.org/events/future-music-policy-summit-2009)

[6] 10/7: Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age with Professor Viktor Mayer Schonberger (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2009/10/schonberger)

[7] 10/8: MIT Communications Forum: Race, Politics, and American Media (http://civic.mit.edu/event/communications-forum-race-politics-and-american-media)

[8] 10/12-13: Engaging Data: First International Forum on the Application and Management of Personal Electronic Information // MIT (http://senseable.mit.edu/engagingdata/)

[9] 10/14: The Democratization of Innovation: A conversation with Ray Kurzweil // MIT Enterprise Forum (http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/iseries/oct09.html)

[10] 10/17: PublicMediaCamp // Washington, DC (http://www.npr.org/blogs/inside/2009/08/publicmediacamp_strengthening.html)

[11] 10/19-23: Open Access Week (http://www.openaccessweek.org/)

DIGITAL MEDIA: Watch and Listen
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Did you miss this week's luncheon talk? Catch up with Berkman videos, podcasts, pictures, and dig in to our archive at http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive.

-BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES with CALESTOUS JUMA on Broadband Internet for Eastern Africa (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheon/2009/09/juma)

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