Berkman Announcements

Berkman Center Announces Request for Technical Submissions Related to Child Safety on the Internet

lkoss — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:23:49 -0400

Cambridge, MA – The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University today formally announced a Request for Technical Submissions as part of the work of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force.

Homeward!

syoung — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:30:00 -0400

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Jonathan Zittrain has accepted an offer to become a tenured Professor of Law at Harvard Law School! He will continue to serve as a Berkman faculty co-director.

It's official!

syoung — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:01:00 -0400

The Harvard Gazette carries the news, which was announced last Thursday morning during opening remarks at the Berkman@10 conference (some wrap up to follow this week, here on the Berkman website).

Harvard elevates study of technology and society:
Berkman Center for Internet & Society becomes University-wide research center

Educators, Activists, Entrepreneurs, and Lawyers Win Berkman Awards for Internet Innovation

syoung — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:00:00 -0400

Cambridge, MA - Announced Friday, May 16, at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society’s tenth anniversary gala dinner, recipients of the Berkman Awards were chosen for their outstanding contributions to the Internet’s impact on society over the past decade.

The international group of winners was selected from an open nomination process and comes from a range of fields including human rights and global advocacy; academia; communications and media; and law. The five cash award winners received $10,000 with no conditions on how the funds must be spent.

Harvard Law votes Yes on open access

syoung — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:00:00 -0400

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. [full text of the motion for an opt-out open access policy]

Onward!

syoung — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:00:00 -0400

With more than a little bit of pride and enthusiasm, we celebrate the appointment of our dear friend and colleague John Palfrey as Harvard Law School's first Vice Dean of Library and Information Resources.

Berkman Center Internet & Democracy Project Releases Study Mapping Iran’s Blogosphere

syoung — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:13:00 -0400

Cambridge, MA - The Berkman Center for Internet & Society’s Internet & Democracy project has released a major study on “Mapping Iran’s Online Public: Politics and Culture in the Persian Blogosphere." Utilizing a unique methodology that blends computational analysis and human coding, the study investigates the contours and scope of the discussions taking place in the Persian blogosphere.

Berkman Center Accepting Nominations for First-Ever Berkman Awards

syoung — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:00:00 -0400

Cambridge, MA – The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School is accepting nominations for the first Berkman Awards. The awards will be presented to people or institutions that have made a significant contribution to the Internet and its impact on society over the past decade.

The Berkman Center Announces Formation of Internet Safety Task Force to Identify and Develop Online Safety Tools

rtabasky — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Cambridge, MA – The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School today announced that it will head a newly formed Internet Safety Technical Task Force. The Task Force, comprised of leading Internet businesses and organizations, will focus on identifying effective online safety tools and technologies that can be used by many companies across multiple platforms.

Berkman Center’s Citizen Media Law Project and Cyberlaw Clinic Challenge Injunctions Against Wikileaks and Dynadot

rtabasky — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500

CAMBRIDGE, MA. – The Berkman Center for Internet & Society’s Citizen Media Law Project (CMLP) and Cyberlaw Clinic have joined a coalition of media and public interest organizations in filing an amici curiae brief urging a federal district court judge to reconsider his orders shutting down Wikileaks.org, a site that is developing what it describes as an "uncensorable Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis."