Traditional law school casebooks are expensive, bulky and stagnant. With the support of the HLS Library, Berkman has been updating our suite of classroom tools, H2O. In this…
Alvin Roth will discuss the history of organized kidney exchange in the last few years, and how the issues of market design have changed as kidney exchange has started to become…
Eric von Hippel, Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT and Berkman Center Faculty Associate
Both innovation by individual users and open collaborative innovation is increasingly competing with and may displace producer innovation in many parts of the economy. This…
The first VRM+CRM workshop will take place on 26-27 August, at Harvard Law School. It’s free. The purpose is to get VRM and CRM developers and other interested parties (such as…
Kate Crawford of the University of New South Wales will present at the Berkman Center's Tuesday Luncheon Series, on 'mobile social spheres' and demands on attention.
Nalini Kotamraju, University of Twente, Netherlands
E-government services throughout the world have been plagued by lower than expected rates of adoption by individuals and institutions. A lack of user centricity in e-government…
Vivek Wadhwa will discuss his research on the backgrounds and motivations of entrepreneurs; what makes them successful; what inhibits entrepreneurs; the characteristics of…
This symposium in Abuja, Nigeria will stimulate discussion of, engagement with, and reflection upon the role and uses of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in…
Patrick Meier, Director of Crisis Mapping and Strategic Partnerships at Ushahidi
Patrick Meier, Director of Crisis Mapping and Strategic Partnerships at Ushahidi, will present on his work on crowdsourcing crisis mapping. This event will be webcast live at 12…
The Summer Doctoral Programme brings together doctoral students engaged in dissertation research relating to the Internet and other information and communication technologies in…
Nancy Baym will argue entertainment industries are increasingly pushed toward models of engagement with audiences that integrate social and economic exchange.
The Harvard Law School Law.Gov workshop on June 18 is the last in a 6-month series of such workshops that have taken place throughout the country. In this final workshop,…
Do we have access to all primary legal materials in Massachusetts? What are the best practices for making information accessible? Join a Law.gov workshop focused on outlining the…
Lisa Nakamura, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Internet gameplay is becoming more socially and culturally diverse and ubiquitous than ever before. Yet at the same time, the culture of griefing or pranking that dominates these…
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania will bring together academics and policy analysts to…
Technologies of participation empower everyone to engage in producing content on the web but also change the roles of professional journalism. Berkman Fellow Miriam Meckel will…
