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Past Events

Jan 24, 2012 @ 12:30 PM

Hackademia: Leveraging the Conflict Between Expertise and Innovation to Create Disruptive Technologies

Beth Kolko, University of Washington

Hackademia: how to foster a hacker ethos within the university. Ways to foster invention when expertise and innovation conflict.

Jan 24, 2012 @ 6:00 PM

Too Big to Know

David Weinberger, Berkman Center and Harvard Law School Library Lab

David Weinberger discusses his new book, "Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is…

Jan 17, 2012 @ 6:00 PM

Ideas for a Better Internet Summit

at Stanford University

Stanford Law School, Harvard Law School, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and TEDxSF are pleased to invite you to a special event and reception on the Stanford campus,…

Jan 17, 2012 @ 12:30 PM

Will Free Benefit the Rich? How Free and Open Education Might Widen Digital Divides

Justin Reich, Berkman Center Fellow

The explosion of open education content resources and freely available collaboration and media production platforms represents one of the most exciting emerging trends in…

Jan 10, 2012 @ 12:30 PM

Searching for Context: Modeling the Information-Seeking Process of College Students in the Digital Age

Alison J. Head, Berkman Center & Library Innovation Lab Fellow

What is it like to be a college student in the digital age? In this talk, Alison Head presents a working typology of the undergraduate information-seeking process, including…

Dec 13, 2011 @ 12:30 PM

Celebrating the Online Media Legal Network's (OMLN) 2nd Anniversary

The staff of the Online Media Legal Network (OMLN) will discuss the history and growth of the project, the accumulated data regarding the nature and geographic distribution of…

Dec 7, 2011 @ 6:30 PM

Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group

at Yale Law School

This month's installment will include a presentation on "Murray Turoff and the Evolution of Computer Mediated Communication" from Ramesh Subramanian is the Gabriel Ferrucci…

Dec 6, 2011 @ 12:30 PM

Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live

Jeff Jarvis, blogger, professor, and best-selling author

Jeff Jarvis, a visionary and optimistic thinker, examines the tension between privacy and publicness that is transforming how we form communities, create identities, do business,…

Dec 5, 2011 @ 6:00 PM

The Fate of Civic Education in a Connected World

A "Fred Friendly" Seminar

Civic education is the cultivation of knowledge and traits that sustain democratic self-governance. The broad agreement that civic education is important disintegrates under close…

Nov 29, 2011 @ 12:30 PM

OpenCourt: Transparency in the Court

Tuesday, November 29, 12:30 pm Berkman Center, 23 Everett Street, Second Floor OpenCourt aims to create a model for judicial transparency in the U.S as envisioned by our…

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Nov 22, 2011 @ 12:30 PM

The Spanish Revolution & the Internet: From free culture to meta-politics

Mayo Fuster Morell, Berkman Center Fellow

In the context of multiple crises – ecological, political, financial and geopolitical restructuring – large mobilizations are taking place in several countries. In the Spanish…

Nov 21, 2011 @ 6:00 PM

Intellectual Property Strategy

John Palfrey, Berkman Center Faculty Co-Director and Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School + Special Guests

Entrepreneurs, corporate managers and nonprofit administrators should look at intellectual property as a key strategic asset. In his new book, “Intellectual Property Strategy” …

Nov 15, 2011 @ 12:30 PM

Program Your City: Legal and Governance Issues of an Urban Integrated Open Data API

Marcus Foth, Queensland University of Technology

The physical city is covered with an increasing number of layers of digital information. At the same time, there is a significant trend towards incorporating location data into…

Nov 10, 2011 @ 12:00 PM

Interweaving Strategy, Leadership, Web Entrepreneurship and Social Sector Impact

John Williams, The Bridgespan Group

As an established entrepreneur and social innovator, John Williams offers a number of lessons learned over the course of his 32+ year career. How do organizations – both for…

Nov 10, 2011 @ 6:30 PM

Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group

at Harvard

Berkman Fellow Jia Wang discusses opportunities for NGOs in China.

Nov 8, 2011 @ 12:30 PM

Preventing Societal Discrimination: Accessible Web Design for People with Disabilities

Jonathan Lazar, Towson University

When web-based interfaces aren’t accessible for people with disabilities, the result is pricing discrimination, employment discrimination, societal exclusion, and lawsuits…

Nov 1, 2011 @ 12:30 PM

Geopolitics of Internet Infrastructure

James Cowie, Renesys Corporation

The growth of the global Internet is still determined, in large part, by local factors: geography, politics, and the economics of interconnection and competition. We'll examine…

Nov 1, 2011 @ 5:00 PM

Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It

A conversation between Lawrence Lessig and David Gergen

Professor David Gergen, Director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership converses with Professor Lawrence Lessig about his new book, "Republic, Lost: How…

Oct 25, 2011 @ 12:30 PM

Doing Science in the Open

Michael Nielsen, author and an advocate of open science

Why have scientists been so conservative in how they use the net, what is society missing out on because of this conservativism, and how can we move to a more open scientific…

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Oct 22, 2011 @ 9:00 AM

Media Law in the Digital Age: The Rules Have Changed -- Again

Co-produced by the Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Kennesaw State's Center for Sustainable Journalism, Media Law in the Digital…