Berkman Center

BadwareBusters.org now in beta

Fight back against viruses, spyware, and other badware!

StopBadware.org has teamed up with the good people of Consumer Reports WebWatch to create BadwareBusters.org, a new online community for people looking for help removing viruses, spyware, and other bad and malicious software from their computers...

21 nov 2008

Global Voices: Special Coverage from Thailand and Mumbai

Global Voices Online brings us special coverage from Thailand and Mumbai...

1 dec 2008

Digital Natives: civic engagement + US presidential election via camphone

For the Thanksgiving holiday in the US this week, many of us are traveling to visit friends and family or are preparing to receive guests. The Digital Natives blog, too, hosted some friends this week -- from Seattle and Paris: Tyler Goulet asks "Can the Internet Save the World?" and Gaby David bases an analysis of the US presidential election on camphone-video broadcasts...

26 nov 2008

Call for papers for the 7th Chinese Internet Research Conference...

Berkman Luncheon Series

The Blogging Revolution: Going online in repressive regimes25 nov 2008

Antony Loewenstein

In 2007, Australian journalist, author and blogger Antony Loewenstein traveled to Egypt, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Cuba and China to investigate how the net was challenging authoritarian regimes, the role of Western multinationals such as Google in the assistance of web filtering and how misinformed we are in the West towards states considered "enemies" or "allies."

Participatory Governance: In open source communities, companies and government 24 nov 2008

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

Irving Wladawsky-Berger is a Visiting Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT, where he is involved in multi-disciplinary research and teaching activities focused on how information technologies are helping transform business organizations and the institutions of society.

PRX 3.0 Launched

Our friends over at Public Radio Exchange launched PRX 3.0--a fancy new version of their website--over the weekend...

24 nov 2008

Berkman Buzz: Week of November 17, 2008

Digital Youth, Hossein Derakshan, the ISTTF, and more...in this week's BUZZ!

21 nov 2008

Upcoming Berkman Events: 11/24 and 11/25

Before you join your family around the turkey next Thursday, join the Berkman family for two great events next Monday and Tuesday.

21 nov 2008

There is no privacy?

This week, over on the newly started "An Eye on Surveillance" blog, the first in a series of posts about egregious privacy intrusions -- "Snooping Browsing History through HTML"...

21 nov 2008