Citizen video in Southeast Asia has exploded in recent times. Andrew Lowenthal, Executive Director of EngageMedia, will outline the approach and methodologies to their…
Kyle Parry, Researcher at metaLAB and PhD student in Film and Visual Studies and Critical Media Practice at Harvard
Say the idea is to re-awaken our feelings for plants even at our hyper-networked speed—do we want digital tools to do the re-wiring or are we convinced they divert us from the…
Meredith Whittaker, Google Research; Thomas Gideon, Open Technology Institute
What if Internet policy were based on scientifically-verifiable data? Come find out how M-Lab is making that happen, 600+ terabytes of open data at a time.
Join us for a discussion about the intersection of Hollywood and the Web and the opportunities and challenges filmmakers, actors, producers, and audience members face in an era…
Marc Abrahams -- publisher of the Annals of Improbable Research, host of the annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, and author of several books (including his latest, This is Improbable:…
DPLA Appfest is an informal, open call for both ideas and functional examples of creative and engaging ways to use the content and metadata in the DPLA back-end platform. The…
Is “open access” all there is? Julie Cohen on the networked self and the structural conditions for human flourishing in the networked information society.
Christopher Soghoian, Principal Technologist & Senior Policy Analyst, American Civil Liberties Union
What should be done, if anything, about this part of the security industry? Are researchers who sell exploits simply engaging in legitimate free speech that should be protected?…
How do you make your own work open access (OA)? The question comes up from researchers at schools with good OA policies (like Harvard and MIT) and at schools with no OA policies…
Hear Professor Madhavi Sunder talk about her new book, From Goods to a Good Life (Yale UP 2012), where she argues that the economic analysis of IP is not sufficient to address…
The study of human behavior as it relates to secure has raised numerous ethical dilemmas. Should researchers be allowed to analyze databases of stolen passwords made public…
Mr. Chang will discuss the labyrinth of Chinese regulations and bureaucracies governing the Internet in China, and recent developments in online music resulting from the US…
DPLA Midwest—taking place on October 11-12, 2012 in Chicago—is the third major public event bringing together librarians, technologists, creators, students, government leaders,…
Colin Agur will discuss "India's Mobile Phone Revolution: A Legislative History, 1994-present"; Bodó Balázs will discuss "Set the fox to watch the geese: voluntary, bottom-up IP…
By this Public Notice, the Federal Communications Commission announces the date, time, and agenda of the next meeting of the Open Internet Advisory Committee. This event will be…
Unlocking the sources of scientific research by authoring papers on the web. Alberto Pepe, Berkman Center Fellow
The system you use to write your research papers may be the first barrier to Open Science! Let's and unlock the sources of scientific research - figures, data, and tables - by…
In this talk Niva Elkin-Koren will share some insights based on the building of a coalition of higher education institutions in Israel and drafting a code of fair use best…
Frischmann will discuss his new book about the social value of infrastructure and the relationships between open infrastructures and user-generated public and social goods.
Nico A.N.M. van Eijk & Axel Arnbak, Institute for Information Law
Recent breaches and malpractices at several Certificate Authorities (CA’s) have led to a collapse of trust in these central mediators of Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS)…
Come to the Berkman Center for Internet & Society’s Open House to meet our faculty, fellows, and staff, and to learn about the many ways you can get involved in our dynamic,…
