Ellen Goodman of Rutgers University School of Law & Jake Shapiro, Executive Director, Public Radio Exchange (PRX)
Ellen and Jake Shapiro lead a discussion on how within the broader story of media transformation generally, there’s an important role played by public broadcasting as it also…
Jeff will introduce describes Aura, a family of programing languages, which integrate functional programming, access control via authorization logic, automatic audit logging, and…
Elizabeth Goodman, UC Berkeley School of Information
Elizabeth Goodman proposes that discussing how urban gardeners build, maintain, and understand their relationships to each other and to their walls will help us rethink this often…
Experiments in Estrangement at the Intersection of Social Science, Art, Design, Public Media and the Digital Humanities
Mapping Main Street is a collaborative documentary media project that creates a new map of the country through a dynamic visualization of stories, data, photos and videos recorded…
The Berkman Center at Harvard University, in coordination with the Center for Research on Computation and Society, is putting together a Ruby on Rails workshop for women on…
As with earlier Vendor Relationship Management (VRM) workshops, this is a free unconference, organized on the open space model. Participants choose the topics, move those topics…
a book talk with Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
By now the perils of posting indiscreet photographs or information on social networking sites like Facebook or MySpace are well known -- jobs are lost or denied, reputations…
David Weinberger will present an informal sketch of a direction for understanding the dominance of information as concept, metaphor, etc., suggesting that we leaped into …
John Clippinger, Urs Gasser, and Oliver Goodenough
The Berkman Center Law Lab is a project devoted to investigating and harness the varied forces — evolutionary, social, psychological, neurological and economic — that shape the…
Television recorders are going online. Device manufacturers are starting to produce consumer devices and software that can be connected to Internet at consumers' homes. New models…
Amartya Sen, Michael Spence, Yochai Benkler, Clotilde Fonseca
Nobel Laureates Amartya Sen and Michael Spence joined Information and Communication Technology (ICT) experts Yochai Benkler and Clotilde Fonseca in a public discussion of the role…
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.
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,…
Professor Calestous Juma, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
The launching of Seacom’s fiber optic cable in July was the single most important infrastructure investment in eastern Africa since the construction of the Uganda Railway, then…
This workshop seeks to bring a fresh perspective to the complex and widely debated topic of the Google Book Search Settlement. It will examine the idea of possible alternative…
Alexander Macgillivray, Deputy General Counsel for Products and Intellectual Property at Google (and soon to be General Counsel of Twitter), will discuss the Google Book Search…
Where in the world are people using Creative Commons licenses? How much content is licensed under Creative Commons and what are the individual, social and cultural factors that…
Aaron Shaw will discuss who's using Amazon's Mechanical Turk, its implications for social scientists, the future of labor markets, and life on the Internet as we know it.
Ben Wikler from Avaaz.org will discuss Avvaz.org's approach to online political organizing by nimbly aggregating small actions by individuals around the world into focused…
