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BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
May 19, 2010 // Upcoming events and digital media

[1] [THURSDAY 5/27] "The FCC's Authority Over Broadband Access" in Washington, DC at the National Press Club. Co-hosted by the Berkman Center and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2010/05/broadband)

[REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN 6/28-30] You are invited to the COMMUNIA 2010 Conference on "University in Cyberspace", taking place in Torino, Italy. Visit http://www.communia2010.org/ to learn more and sign up for the announcement list.


[THURSDAY 5/27] THE FCC'S AUTHORITY OVER BROADBAND ACCESS
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Co-hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, May 27, 2010, 9:00am-12:30pm
National Press Club -- 529 14th Street, NW, Washington DC
Attendance is free, but space is limited. To register, visit http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2010/05/broadband

On what basis, if any, does the FCC exercise jurisdiction over broadband access in pursuit of national goals? FCC Chairman Genachowski announced on May 6 that he intended to pursue a "Third Way" between the current "ancillary authority" approach and full imposition of Title II "telecommunications service" obligations on Internet providers. Just what does this approach mean for the future of broadband competition, Internet-based innovation, and the National Broadband Plan? At this non-partisan event, legal experts and former senior policy-makers will analyze how the U.S. arrived at this point, and what steps the FCC and other branches of government should take now.

Session 1: The History and Context of the Debate
- Moderator Kevin Werbach (The Wharton School, Univ. of Pennsylvania)
- John Nakahata (Partner, Wiltshire & Grannis; former Chief of Staff, FCC)
- Jessica Rosenworcel (Sr. Counsel, Senate Commerce Committee)
- John Windhausen (Telopoly; former Sr. Counsel, Senate Commerce Committee)

Session 2: The Third Way - What Happens Next?
- Moderator Kevin Werbach (The Wharton School, Univ. of Pennsylvania)
- Yochai Benkler (Harvard Law School)
- Susan Crawford (Univ. of Michigan Law School)
- James Speta (Northwestern University Law School)
-Jon Nuechterlein (WilmerHale)

Register and learn more by visiting http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2010/05/broadband.


[REGISTER NOW] COMMUNIA 2010 CONFERENCE: UNIVERSITY IN CYBERSPACE
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6/28-30/10, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

Universities are entrusted with the increasingly important responsibility of creating, sharing, and fostering use of knowledge on behalf of society, and to that end, are the recipients of tremendous investments of time, money, space, authority and freedom. Universities have embraced this role in diverse fashions, varying by tradition, period, and discipline, but we now ask them to go further. As we progress ever more deeply into a networked age, our knowledge institutions are faced with concomitant opportunities. They are challenged by society to become a driving force to create and disseminate knowledge - using innovative, effective, and dynamic approaches - derived from and for the networked world.

The COMMUNIA 2010 International Conference will provide a venue for exploring these points, with the twofold objective of defining a shared vision of the future of universities as knowledge institutions and of identifying the main steps leading from vision to reality.

To learn more and sign up for the announcements list, please visit http://www.communia2010.org/.


OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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[1] 5/19: The GKEN Speaker Series: Alison Head and “How Today’s College Students Find Information and Conduct Research” (http://www.globalknowledgeexchange.net/upcoming-speaker-series-event-alison-head-and-how-todays-college-students-find-information-and-conduct-research-may-19-2010)

[2] 5/25: Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace // Washington, DC (http://www.ned.org/events/access-controlled-the-shaping-of-power-rights-and-rule-in-cyberspace)

[3] 6/8: Intelligence Squared Debate: The Cyber War Threat Has Been Grossly Exaggerated (featuring Berkman Faculty Co-Director Jonathan Zittrain) (http://intelligencesquaredus.org/index.php/debates/cyber-war-threat-has-been-grossly-exaggerated/)

[4] 6/17: Communication of Technical Knowledge Workshop // Boston University (https://sites.google.com/site/commtechbu/home)

Open Video Conference Call for Proposals (http://www.openvideoconference.org/proposals/)


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.

-BETH NOVECK on Open and Transparent Government (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/2010/04/noveck / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w6DTGhVHj0)

-Berkman Luncheon Series: AMIE SIEGAL on "Youtube Performance and Remaking" (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheon/2010/05/siegel)

-Berkman Luncheon Series: ELLIOT MAXWELL on "Openness — How Increasing Accessibility and Responsiveness Can Transform Processes and Systems" (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheon/2010/05/maxwell)

-Radio Berkman 152: A “Third Way” for the FCC and Broadband (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/podcasts/radioberkman152)


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BERKMAN CALENDAR & UPCOMING EVENTS PREVIEW
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See our events calendar if you're curious about future luncheons, discussions, lectures, conferences, and more: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events. All of our events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.

6/17: Law.gov: Massachusetts http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2010/06/lawdotgovMA

6/18: Law.gov: Putting it All Together http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2010/06/lawdotgov

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