BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
May 5, 2010 // Upcoming events and digital media

[1] [TODAY 5/5] Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group with Jeffrey Warren on "Grassroots Mapping Projects"; Nicholas Bramble on "A Diverse and Antagonistic Information Age?"; and David Abrams on "YouTube's Copyright Downfall" (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/cyberscholars/2010/05/berkman)

[2] [TUESDAY 5/11] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "Openness: How Increasing Accessibility and Responsiveness Can Transform Processes and Systems" with Elliot E. Maxwell, Fellow of the Communications Program at Johns Hopkins University and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the eBusiness Research Center of Pennsylvania State University (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/05/maxwell)

[SAVE THE DATE 6/28-30] You are invited to the COMMUNIA 2010 Conference on "University in Cyberspace", taking place in Torino, Italy. Visit http://www.communia2010.org/ to learn more and sign up for the announcement list.


[TODAY] CYBERSCHOLARS
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5/5/10, 6:00PM, Berkman Center Conference Room, 23 Everett St., 2nd Fl, Cambridge
Please RSVP to Herkko Hietanen at hietanen@cyber.law.harvard.edu before 5/3/10
Dinner provided

The "Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group" is a forum for fellows and affiliates of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT, Yale Law School Information Society Project, and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School to discuss their ongoing research. Each session is focused on the peer review and discussion of current projects submitted by a presenter. Meeting alternatively at Harvard, MIT, Yale, the working group aims to expand the shared knowledge of young scholars by bringing together these preeminent centers of thought on issues confronting the information age. Discussion sessions are designed to facilitate advancements in the individual research of presenters and in turn encourage exposure among the participants to the multi-disciplinary features of the issues addressed by their own work.

At this installment of cyberscholars, Jeffrey Warren will talk about "Grassroots Mapping Projects"; Nicholas Bramble will discuss "A Diverse and Antagonistic Information Age?"; and David Abrams will present on "YouTube's Copyright Downfall".

For more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/cyberscholars/2010/05/berkman


[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on OPENNESS
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5/11/10, 12:30 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room @ 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA
RSVP is required for those attending in person to Amar Ashar (ashar@cyber.law.harvard.edu)
This event will be webcast live

Topic: Openness: How Increasing Accessibility and Responsiveness Can Transform Processes and Systems
Guest: Elliot E. Maxwell, Fellow of the Communications Program at Johns Hopkins University and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the eBusiness Research Center of Pennsylvania State University

The term "open" has been used in many contexts: open source, open standards, open access, open architecture, open spectrum, open innovation, and open educational resources. Information, processes, and systems have become more accessible and therefore more open (Web 1,0), but the evolving Web allows users to contribute and collaborate in new ways, increasing openness by making information, processes, and systems not only more accessible but more responsive. What are the various characteristics of “openness”? How do open models differ from more traditional models? What is their appeal?

The Committee for Economic Development has published a series of reports on openness, examining the relationship between openness, digitization, and the Internet. Building upon economic, legal, and technical analyses, the reports address:

* the relationship between openness and efforts to control the unauthorized use of intellectual property;
* expanding the opportunity space for sequential and cumulative innovation;
* the potential for transforming the U.S. healthcare system through increased openness; and
* the implications of openness for institutions of higher education.

The presentation will address how greater openness has been enabled by IT and the Internet, the rise of a new theory of value based on use and sharing, the problems and pitfalls associated with greater openness, and how openness can serve as a lens to examine and a tool to reengineer different institutional and policy domains.

About Elliot:

Elliot E. Maxwell is an author and lecturer, as well as an advisor to public and private sector clients on strategic issues involving the intersection of business, technology, and public policy in the Internet, E-commerce and telecommunications domains.

Presently, he is a Fellow of the Communications Program at Johns Hopkins University and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the eBusiness Research Center of Pennsylvania State University.

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/05/maxwell


[SAVE THE DATE] COMMUNIA 2010 CONFERENCE: UNIVERSITY IN CYBERSPACE
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6/28-30/10, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

Universities are entrusted with the increasingly important responsibility of creating, sharing, and fostering use of knowledge on behalf of society, and to that end, are the recipients of tremendous investments of time, money, space, authority and freedom. Universities have embraced this role in diverse fashions, varying by tradition, period, and discipline, but we now ask them to go further. As we progress ever more deeply into a networked age, our knowledge institutions are faced with concomitant opportunities. They are challenged by society to become a driving force to create and disseminate knowledge - using innovative, effective, and dynamic approaches - derived from and for the networked world.

The COMMUNIA 2010 International Conference will provide a venue for exploring these points, with the twofold objective of defining a shared vision of the future of universities as knowledge institutions and of identifying the main steps leading from vision to reality.

To learn more and sign up for the announcements list, please visit http://www.communia2010.org/.


OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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[1] 5/5: The Potential of Open Development for Canada and Abroad — IDRC Public Panel and Live Webcast // featuring Berkman Faculty Member Yochai Benkler (http://www.idrc.ca/events-OpenDevelopment/)

[2] 5/6: The future of mobile technologies as a global force for change // MIT (http://mit.edu/misti/events/mobile.html)

[3] 5/6: Ed Tech '10 // Microsoft Research Center (http://microsoftcambridge.com/Events/EdTech2010/tabid/383/Default.aspx)

[4] 5/6-7: Global Voices Citizen Media Summit // Santiago, Chile (http://summit2010.globalvoicesonline.org/)

[5] 5/6-7: Politics of Open Source Conference // UMass (http://politicsofopensource.jitp.net/)

[6] 5/11: Free Press Summit // Washington, DC (http://summit.freepress.net/)

[7] 5/14: The Tethered Life: Technology Reshapes Intimacy and Solitude // Harvard Extension School (http://www.extension.harvard.edu/centennial/events/)

[8] 5/18: Music 2.0: Tools + Tech for Musicians, Marketers + Managers // MS NERD Center (http://music2.eventbrite.com/)

[9] 6/8: Intelligence Squared Debate: The Cyber War Threat Has Been Grossly Exaggerated (featuring Berkman Faculty Co-Director Jonathan Zittrain) (http://intelligencesquaredus.org/index.php/debates/cyber-war-threat-has-...)


DIGITAL MEDIA: Watch and Listen
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Did you miss this week's luncheon talk? Catch up with Berkman videos, podcasts, pictures, and dig in to our archive at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive.

-BETH NOVECK on Open and Transparent Government (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/2010/04/noveck)

-Berkman Luncheon Series: LUIS VON AHN on "Human Computation" (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheon/2010/04/vonahn)

-DAVID WEINBERGER'S Web of Ideas: JOHN HAGEL on the Power of Pull (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/2010/04/webofideas)

-Video Recap of "Journalism's Digital Transition" conference (http://www.citmedialaw.org/blog/2010/video-recap-cmlps-april-9th-confere...)


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BERKMAN CALENDAR & UPCOMING EVENTS PREVIEW
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See our events calendar if you're curious about future luncheons, discussions, lectures, conferences, and more: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events. All of our events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.

6/17: Law.gov: Massachusetts http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/06/lawdotgovMA

6/18: Law.gov: Putting it All Together http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/06/lawdotgov

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