We all want to make the world a better place, but we're discouraged from giving money and volunteer time to charities due to several layers of obstacles: transparency, efficacy,…
Organized by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society; Burton Blatt Institute; Disability Law and Policy Center at the University of Ireland, Galway; Global Partnership for Disability and Development, Harvard Project on Disability; and NOVA Nordic…
The purpose of the meeting was to have an open, free ranging, and collaborative discussion on how disability civil society can, should, or should be supported in developing their…
StorageTek v. CHE, a technical talk by Christian Hicks, Elysium Digital
Christian Hicks, founder of Elysium Digital, discussed the case StorageTek v. CHE. This talk was co-sponsored by the Berkman Cyberlaw Clinic, the Harvard Computer Society, and the…
We welcome you to our new real-space extension in Harvard Square to learn about the Berkman Center, our projects, our community, and ways to get involved as a paid research…
The Berkman Center celebrated the release of John Palfrey and Urs Gasser's "Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives" at Harvard Law School.
Ten years have passed since the U.S. Department of Justice and 20 states filed their landmark antitrust case against Microsoft and the trial of the lawsuit began in federal…
Ghanaian internet entrepreneur and researcher Eric Osiakwan and the Berkman Center's Ethan Zuckerman discussed the climate for innovation around information technology in Sub…
Hub2 uses Second Life to engage the Allston community in designing Honan Library Park. But the focus isn't on the technology; it's on building a common understanding of
and a…
Ryan Goodman and Andrew K. Woods of the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School
Goodman and Woods discussed their book project -- which collects social science insights and applies them to human rights policy -- and sought feedback for how (or whether) to…
"The Internet both attracts and repels art institutions. Curators wonder who could possibly ensure quality control in a world where 50,000 videos are added to YouTube each day."…
Shenja van der Graaf discussed her research on games as platforms for user creativity, the impact on gaming culture, and effects on the development of games.
The Media Summit 2008 brought together members of the Global Voices Online citizen media project, and its wider community with a diverse group of bloggers, activists,…
Ned Gulley and Karim R. Lakhani discussed their work on The Dynamics of Collaborative Innovation: Exploring the tension between knowledge novelty and reuse.
