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Upcoming Events

Apr 24, 2024 @ 12:30 PM

Harvard x Creators: Making Evidence-Based Public Health Information Viral

RSM Speaker Series

Amanda Yarnell and Kate Speer discuss the Center for Health Communication‘s efforts with Jeff Hall...

May 2, 2024 @ 9:30 AM

Platforms and the Right to Information

Hybrid Workshop, May 2

One-day workshop examining what the right to information should look like in relation to platforms and how it can be implemented in a manner that protects user privacy...

May 8, 2024 @ 12:30 PM

Information Foraging in a Social Media World

RSM Speaker Series

Carl Bergstrom explores social media's impact on the scale of human communication...

Past Events

Apr 16, 2015 @ 2:30 PM

Cyberscholar Working Group at Yale University

The Cyberscholar Working Group is a forum for fellows and affiliates of MIT, Yale Law School Information Society Project, Columbia University, and the Berkman Center for Internet …

Apr 14, 2015 @ 12:00 PM

Taking Back Power in the Age of Networks

with filmmaker, writer, and political organizer, Astra Taylor

Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 12:00 pm

Apr 9, 2015 @ 4:00 PM

Deconstructing the 'Cuban Spring' Fantasy

A chat about Cuba and the Internet

What does the new chapter in US-Cuba relations mean for digital communities and journalists in Cuba?

Apr 7, 2015 @ 12:00 PM

The Black Box Society

With author Frank Pasquale. Moderated by Jonathan Zittrain.

Does the increasing velocity, variety, and volume of data make regulators' jobs harder or easier? Some say we are entering a "golden age of surveillance," enabling perfect…

Apr 2, 2015 @ 5:00 PM

Love the Processor, Hate the Process: The Temptations of Clever Algorithms and When to Resist Them

Harvard Law School Chair Lecture by Jonathan Zittrain, George Bemis Professor of International Law

“Love the Processor, Hate the Process: The Temptations of Clever Algorithms and When to Resist Them"

Mar 31, 2015 @ 12:00 PM

Data, Privacy & Navigating the Change from a (Relatively) Unrecorded to a Recorded World

Join us for a talk about "Data, Privacy & Navigating the Change from a (Relatively) Unrecorded to a Recorded World" with Chris Kelly, Harvard Law School Steven and Maureen Klinksy Professor of Practice for Leadership and Progress; Former Chief Privacy…

Data, Privacy & Navigating the Change from a (Relatively) Unrecorded to a Recorded World, A talk by Chris Kelly, Steven and Maureen Klinksy Professor of Practice for Leadership…

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Mar 25, 2015 @ 6:00 PM

Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

With Berkman Fellow, Bruce Schneier. Moderated by Jonathan Zittrain with special guests, Yochai Benkler, Joe Nye, Sara Watson and Melissa Hathaway.

In Data and Goliath, security expert Bruce Schneier offers another path, one that values both security and privacy. He shows us exactly what we can do to reform our government…

Mar 24, 2015 @ 12:00 PM

America's Complicated Relationship with Civic Duty: Understanding Everyday Americans at the Core of Civic Innovation

with Berkman Fellow, Kate Krontiris, joined by research colleagues John Webb (Google), Charlotte Krontiris, and moderator Eric Gordon

The research includes a joint qualitative and quantitative study for understanding “Interested Bystanders,” or that portion of the population that is paying attention to the world…

Mar 13, 2015 @ 12:00 PM

More Science Behind Shaping Behaviors in Online Games

We’ll start by using social network analysis to map out how player behavior (both positive and negative) spreads in League of Legends, an online game with over 67 million players…

Mar 11, 2015 @ 12:00 PM

National Security Cyber Operations and Policy Event

featuring Luke Dembosky

Please join Luke Dembosky, the newest Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department's National Security Division, for a discussion on economic espionage, protecting…

Mar 10, 2015 @ 12:00 PM

Distributed and Digital Disaster Response

Berkman Fellow, Willow Brugh

Berkman fellow Willow Brugh will discuss "Distributed and Digital Disaster Response."

Mar 3, 2015 @ 12:00 PM

Lawyering for Social Justice in the Age of Digital Media

Harvard Law School Lecturer on Law, Rebecca Richman Cohen

We teach lawyers to be media literate?

Feb 26, 2015 @ 6:00 PM

We Break Things...Hackers Fight for Freedom

Prerelease screening with filmmaker Rebecca Wexler

Prerelease screening with filmmaker Rebecca Wexler, We Break Things ... Hackers Fight for Freedom (2015).

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Feb 24, 2015 @ 12:00 PM

Workshopping Ideas: Presentations from the Digital Problem-Solving Initiative (DPSI) Teams

#DPSI teams will be workshopping their work @berkmancenter.

Feb 17, 2015 @ 12:00 PM

#StopEbola: What Nigeria did right

with Berkman Affiliate, Aimee Corrigan

On July 20, 2014 the Ebola outbreak landed in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country. Public health officials warned that an outbreak could be catastrophic in Lagos, a densely…

Feb 10, 2015 @ 12:00 PM

[Postponed] Can the State use information technology to police itself? A study of open governance in Andhra Pradesh, India

with Berkman Fellow, Rajesh Veeraraghavan

Berkman Fellow, Rajesh Veeraraghavan

Feb 3, 2015 @ 12:00 PM

Development in the Digital Age: The role of online platforms & payments in enabling entrepreneurship in emerging markets

featuring Usman Ahmed (ebay), Jake Colvin (Global Innovation Forum), and Althea Erickson (Etsy)

Join representatives from the Global Innovation Forum, eBay and Etsy to explore the opportunities for economic development that the Internet unlocks, and the specific challenges…

Jan 29, 2015 @ 3:30 PM

Innovating In The Open

with Matt Tucker, Emily Broad Leib, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf and Jeff Warren

Join experts for a conversation about open approaches to innovation

Jan 28, 2015 @ 8:00 AM

FinTech and Entrepreneurship:

Exploring the role of innovative financial services in advancing global entrepreneurship & development (Washington, DC)

FinTech and Entrepreneurship: Exploring the role of innovative financial services in advancing global entrepreneurship & development

Jan 20, 2015 @ 12:30 PM

Disconnected: Youth, New Media, and the Ethics Gap

with Carrie James

Carrie James will share insights from her book, Disconnected, an account of how youth approach ethical dilemmas in online life.