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June 2, 2010 // Upcoming events and digital media

[1] [TUESDAY 6/8] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "Preliminary Conclusions from The Industrial Cooperation Project" with Berkman Fellow Carolina Rossini (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/06/rossini)

[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.


[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on the INDUSTRIAL COOPERATION PROJECT
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6/8/10, 12:30 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room @ 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA
RSVP is required for those attending in person to Amar Ashar (ashar@cyber.harvard.edu)
This event will be webcast live

Topic: Preliminary Conclusions from The Industrial Cooperation Project
Guest: Berkman Fellow Carolina Rossini

The Industrial Cooperation Project (ICP) was conceived to provide a broad understanding of industrial sectors and a possible map of commons-based production by industrial actors and industries as a whole, as opposed to commons-based production by individuals. The Wealth of Networks began the task of looking at various “verticals” or industry sectors that had a major impact on development, like educational materials, biological innovation around both health and food, and software and information technology, and outlined then-present practices aimed at provisioning these goods on commons-based models. The ICP extended that approach no new fields: alternative energy, biotechnology (genomics and diagnostic kits), educational materials and telecommunications. Understanding how Intellectual Property affects innovation in each of those sectors - and how external forces, such as public policies or "market interventions" shape that interference - was a central theme of the research.

We will publish our results in the fall of 2010. But an early analysis of the research finds evidence for commons-based production in industrial sectors where the knowledge products are more inherently digital, like in educational materials and genomics. So far we do not see large-scale, system-wide commons-based production in industrial sectors that reflect more traditional manufacturing practices, like alternative energy and diagnostic kits - although we do find very interesting sub-sectors that are undergoing transformation that looks very similar to commons-based production.

What is most interesting is the changes in institutions that are leading to commons based practices in industrial sectors. Because of the role of large, non-individual corporate bodies in governing the knowledge in industry, there is a real need to intervene in industrial practice and policy to create the basic conditions and incentives for corporations to engage in CBP.

The talk will explore some of the preliminary results from sectors, and pose some questions about how best to create the boundary settings that facilitate the emergence of CBP across different classes of industrial sectors.

About Carol:

Carolina Rossini is a Fellow with the Cooperation Research Group at the Berkman Center, coordinating the Industrial Cooperation Project. She is an attorney with experience in intellectual property, international development, innovation policy, internet policy, the digital commons, and the impact of technology on cultures. Carolina is a legal advisor of the Brazilian Embassy in Washington in Intellectual Property and Innovation International Negotiations.

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/06/rossini


[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] 6/7-8: The Ninth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2010) // Harvard University (http://weis2010.econinfosec.org/cfp.html)

[2] 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/)

[3] 6/3-4: Personal Democracy Forum 2010 // New York (http://personaldemocracy.com/technology-politics-social-media-conference-personal-democracy-forum-new-york-0)

[4] 6/11: Online Censorship – Implications of Content Filtering At Home and Abroad featuring Berkman Faculty Co-Director John Palfrey // Washington, DC (http://www.mediaaccess.org/2010/04/mapping-change-series/)

[5] 6/15-6/18: Computers, Freedom, and Privacy // San Jose (http://www.cfp2010.org/wiki/index.php/Program)

[6] 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.

-The FCC's Authority Over Broadband Access: The History and Context of the Debate (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/2010/05/FCCPanel1 / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddpfq_Bq-W8)

-The FCC's Authority Over Broadband Access: The Third Way - What Happens Next? (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/2010/05/FCCPanel2 / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sodqt_A6un4&feature=channel)

-Berkman Luncheon Series: MIRIAM MECKEL on Social Media Journalism and the Changing Roles of Journalists (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheon/2010/05/meckel)

-Radio Berkman 153: The Wonderful World of Spectrum (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/podcasts/radioberkman153)


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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.

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

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