Ronald Deibert, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
Cyberspace is ours. It is what we make of it. We need to remember that before it slips through our grasp.
Artists once had the monopoly on image making. But In a world where mobile technology has made images ubiquitous, what does visual art have left to say?
hosted by metaLAB's Jeffrey Schnapp, Matthew Battles and Pablo Barría Urenda
Curarium is a collection of collections, an “animated archive,” designed to serve as a model for crowdsourcing annotation, curation, and augmentation of works within and beyond…
Come to the Berkman Center for Internet & Society’s Fall 2013 Open House to meet our faculty, fellows, and staff, and to learn about the many ways you can get involved in our…
Richard Blumenthal, United States Senator for Connecticut
Senator Richard Blumenthal will deliver an address about proposed legislation to reform the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Read more about the legislation >
Sophie Hood and Helen Nissenbaum, Information Law Institute at NYU
Helen Nissenbaum and Sophie Hood will explore whether new information technologies might be deployed to enhance both transparency and privacy for online court records.
Legal technology is reshaping practice. It needs to reshape law schools as well. In the current crisis in law, teaching legal technology must be part of curriculum reform.
Martin Eve and Caroline Edwards, Academic Directors, The Open Library of the Humanities
The greatest successes of the Open Access movement have taken place within the sciences where the tipping point was all but reached in 2012. In the humanities, however, there has…
Douglas Rushkoff, author of Present Shock, in conversation with David Weinberger
The always-on, simultaneous society in which we have found ourselves has altered our relationship to culture, media, news, politics, economics, and power. We are living in a…
Dr. Dorothea Kleine, Director of the ICT4D Centre, RHUL
In Technologies of Choice?, Dorothea Kleine uses Sen’s capabilities approach to development to ask which values are embedded in ICT policies and technologies. The book argues for…
Come hear a former Obama White House privacy official discuss cyber conflict, privacy and Internet freedom - what can we do to combat threats without giving up freedoms? This…
The Intersection of Technology, Free-Market Ideology, and Media Hype in U.S. Education Reform with Justin Reich, Berkman Center Fellow
Personalization, Backpacks of Cash, Rockstar Teachers, and #MOOC Madness: Free-Market Ideology, Media Hype, & ed reform. This event will be webcast live at 12:30pm ET.
The event will explore the quickly expanding world of citizen journalism: how technology is fueling its growth; how that growth is changing the way we see our world, enact change,…
The Centre for Spatial Law and Policy based in Washington, DC, the Center for Geographic Analysis, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Berkman Center…
On April 18-19, 2013, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) will bring together librarians, technologists, creators, publishers, innovators, students, government leaders,…
Are employees at the Googles and Facebooks of the world able to enforce that promise? with Berkman Fellow, Heather Whitney
Work here: have a voice and change the world. Are employees at the Googles and Facebooks of the world able to enforce that promise? This event will be webcast live at 12:30pm ET.