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BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
December 2, 2009 // Upcoming events and digital media

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[1] [TODAY 12/2/09] Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group with Donnie Hao Dong, Berkman Fellow ; David Singh Grewal, Affiliated Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School; and Mackenzie Cowell, Berkman Center Research Assistant (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/cyberscholars/2009/12/harvard)

[2] [MONDAY 12/7/09] Berkman Book Talk: "Enterprise 2.0; The State of An Art" with Berkman Fellow Andrew McAfee (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2009/12/mcafee)


[TODAY] HARVARD-MIT-YALE CYBERSCHOLAR WORKING GROUP
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12/2/09, 6:00 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room @ 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA
RSVP is required for those attending in person (herkko.hietanen@hiit.fi).

Donnie Hao Dong is a Fellow at Berkman Center and a Lecturer at Yunnan University (PRC). His research interests cover copyright law, cyber law and law and social development in digital age. He got a JSD from China University of Politics and Law with his dissertation on the public domain in the context of Chinese copyright law. Now Donnie is a PhD Candidate in City University of Hong Kong closing his research on the lessons of Chinese copyright reform for digital age. His publications, short essays and nags can be accessed at http://www.BLawgDog.com.

David Singh Grewal is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, and an Affiliated Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. His first book, Network Power: The Social Dynamics of Globalization was published by Yale University Press in 2008. He holds a JD from Yale, and is currently completing his PhD in the Harvard Government department, where he is finishing his dissertation, "The Invention of the Economy." He is also on the board of the Biobricks Foundation, a non-profit working to develop an open-source platform for the emerging field of synthetic biology.

Mackenzie Cowell graduated from Davidson College with a BS in Biology in 2007 and currently works as a Research Assistant at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. He is booting up a public biotech lab in Boston (bosslab.org). He tweets: @100ideas.

Donnie Dong will discuss his research on the justification of copyright protection in China. He will review the Chinese legislative history of copyright protection during the past hundred years, and draw the conclusion that the Chinese copyright law has been, and still is, justified with the utilitarian approach. He thinks that this characteristic, rather than the difference between the respective legal systems, may be one of the reasons that cause the continuous collision between the US copyright law and its Chinese counterpart in future.

David will examine the question of: Is there a way to bring "free culture" into biotechnology? His talk will explore one recent effort to do so: the creation of the Biobricks Public Agreement, a legal mechanism meant to assist the development of an open, shared platform in the emerging area of synthetic biology.

Mackenzie Cowell co-founded DIYbio.org after witnessing hundreds of undergraduate teams successfully design and build standardized biological parts and devices while competing in the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition, which Cowell helped organize at MIT from 2006-08. DIYbio.org is now the center of a diverse and international community of people interested in amateur biotechnology, from artists to scientists to schoolchildren to garage entrepreneurs. In this presentation, Cowell will present some of the projects currently being developed by this community of non-institutional researchers.

For more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/cyberscholars/2009/12/harvard


[MONDAY] BERKMAN BOOK RELEASE on ENTERPRISE 2.0: THE STATE OF AN ART with ANDREW MCAFEE
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12/7/09, 6:00 PM ET, Pound Hall Room 102, Harvard Law School
Map: http://map.harvard.edu/level3.cfm?mapname=camb_allston&tile=F6&quadrant=C&series=N

Free and Open to the Public
RSVP required via the form on this page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2009/12/mcafee
This event will be webcast live

Berkman fellow, MIT Scientist (http://ebusiness.mit.edu/), blogger (http://andrewmcafee.org/blog/), and tweeter (http://twitter.com/amcafee) Andrew McAfee will talk about his new book "Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization's Toughest Challenges". He'll open with a few prepared remarks about the book's topic: how the tools and philosophies of Web 2.0 are making their way into organizations (even traditional ones). We'll then open up the session for discussion.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase.

About Andrew:

Andrew McAfee studies the ways that information technology (IT) affects businesses and business as a whole. His research investigates how IT changes the way companies perform, organize themselves, and compete. At a higher level, his work also investigates how computerization affects competition itself – the struggle among rivals for dominance and survival within an industry.

He coined the phrase “Enterprise 2.0” in a spring 2006 Sloan Management Review article to describe the use of Web 2.0 tools and approaches by businesses. He also began blogging at that time, both about Enterprise 2.0 and about his other research. McAfee’s blog is widely read, becoming at times one of the 10,000 most popular in the world (according to Technorati). He also maintains a Facebook profile and Twitter account.

McAfee is a principal research scientist at MIT's Center for Digital Business and is a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

For more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2009/12/mcafee


OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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[1] 12/2/09: Ignite Spatial Boston (http://isb09.eventbrite.com/)

[2] 12/5/09: The Future of the Forum: Internet Communities and the Public Interest // UC Berkeley (http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/fotf/)

[3] 12/7/09: Web Innovators Group (http://www.webinnovatorsgroup.com/)

[4] 12/8/09: The library is dead. Long live the library! The rebirth of libraries in the 21st century (with Berkman Faculty Co-Director John Palfrey) // Cambridge, MA (http://neasist.eventbrite.com/)


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.

-JONATHAN ZITTRAIN on "Minds for Sale" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw3h-rae3uo&feature=player_profilepage)

-Berkman Luncheon Series on BIG DATA, GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT, and COMPLEX SOCIAL SYSTEMS with NATHAN EAGLE (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheons/2009/11/eagle)

-Berkman Luncheon Series with SAM BOWLES on "Kudunomics: Information and Property Rights in the Weightless Economy" (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheons/2009/11/bowles)

-Berkman Luncheon Series with Cameran Ashraf on "#iranelection: The digital media response to the 2009 Iranian election" (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheons/2009/11/iranelection)

-RADIO BERKMAN 136: The Garden and the Net (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/podcasts/radioberkman136)


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