Berkman Center for Internet & Society

Publius: more on "Tacit Governance"

As promised, we are pleased to announce the continuation of our Publius conversation on Rules and Governance with new pieces by David Johnson, JP Rangaswami, Wendy Seltzer, and Pierre de Vries...

Launching Publius: first essays now live!

As part of the lead up to our Berkman@10 conference and gala (this Thursday and Friday!), we are pleased to announce the launch of a new project: Publius. Publius brings together a distinguished collection of individuals to write short essays, foster a public dialogue, and create a durable record of how the rules of cyberspace are being formed -- with a view to affecting their future incarnations. The first essays -- by David Weinberger, Esther Dyson, and Kevin Werbach -- are now live! with a preface by John Palfrey...

Upward!

Phil Malone promoted to Clinical Professor at Harvard Law

The Berkman Center heartily congratulates Phil Malone on his promotion to Clinical Professor of Law. Phil is no stranger to the Center; he has been the director of our Cyberlaw Clinic for several years. We look forward to the many extraordinary things that Phil will do as Clinical Professor of Law well into the future.

Internet Filtering: 2007 Year in Review

In the thick of Berkman@10's uninterrupted series of major events, announcements, and releases, we feted and discussed the OpenNet Initiative's landmark book on global Internet filtering, Access Denied, published earlier this semester. In anticipation of the OpenNet Initiative's new, greatly expanded data set, which will be rolling out soon, we invite you to review some of the filtering that took place in 2007.

Berkman Buzz: Week of May 5, 2008

Myanmar, Open Access, the demise of newspapers, democracy in Kuwait and more...in this week's BUZZ.

Debating democratisation and the Internet

Dust off your British spelling guides. As part of the Berkman Center’s ongoing tenth anniversary celebration, Berkman@10 (conference and gala next week!), we’re retrieving some multimedia classics from our past, including, to date, six notable moments that were saved on tape. This week, for the last in our series, we step back one year, linking across the pond to debate whether "the Internet is the greatest force for democratisation in the world."

Good things in StopBadware's world

badware alert averted + positive sign from a hosting service

This week, two heartening tales of the good fight against badware graced the StopBadware.org blog: in dialogue with the SBW team, two companies made corrections to protect consumers...

Media Rules! book reading in Cambridge

Brian Reich will be reading from his new book, Media Rules: Mastering Today's Technology to Connect with and Keep Your Audience, at the Harvard Square Coop on the evening of Tuesday, May 13...

Yahoo! launches Business and Human Rights Program

As part of the Principles on Free Expression and Privacy effort, the Berkman Center has been participating in an ongoing dialogue among cross-sector stakeholders - including companies, NGOs, socially responsible investors, and academics - on the importance and complexity of offering ICT services in a wide range of national settings, with a focus on both collective and individual company action. The participants have shown great commitment to the effort, and we are thrilled to see the trailblazing approach that Yahoo! is taking by launching The Yahoo! Business & Human Rights Program, an integrated platform to advance this work in the near and far term.

Berkman@10 webcasts

Registration has been closed for the Berkman@10 conference May 15-16 (there's still time to register for the May 16 gala!), but, for those unable to attend in person, there will be webcasts of the plenary sessions and live videoblogging!

Berkman's Hiring a Gaggle of Geeks!

Systems administrators, web developers, support specialists, and more! We're looking to hire a handful of sharp and visionary techies to join our ever-growing community. As Jason Callina, Berkman’s longtime Senior Software Developer, writes, "...you will be working on projects that have bigger implications than your standard IT tasks. Berkman projects give people voices, shine lights on injustice and help shape policy..."

Harvard Law votes Yes on open access

The faculty of Harvard Law School has unanimously approved a motion for open access: articles will be made freely available in an online repository. With the success of this motion, Harvard Law becomes the first law school to make an institutional commitment of this sort to open access to its faculty's scholarly publications.

Homophily, serendipity, xenophilia

getting smart about birds of a feather

As ROFLCon descended on Cambridge, Fellow Ethan Zuckerman was essaying an argument for why homophily, serendipity, and xenophilia are "useful concepts" for thinking through media attention and the challenges of global understanding in today's media ecosystem. The conversation, as they say, has legs...