The Request for Technical Submissions asks companies, non-profits, and individuals with technologies relevant to child safety online to submit a detailed description that will enable a thorough review by the Task Force’s Technical Advisory Board.
'''One thing about the Internet is that most ideas are developed collaboratively in the Internet space...' said John Palfrey, executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard..."
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. Everyone at the center welcomes him home!
''Berkman Center for Internet & Society co-founder Jonathan Zittrain will become a tenured professor at Harvard Law School and return to the Berkman Center as one of four faculty co-directors...''
''Some of the most important issues in technology are being debated — and defined — in a yellow wood-frame house on the edge of Harvard Law School's campus.''
'''Wikipedia resolves the postmodern dilemma of truth by ultimately relying on process,' says Gene Koo of Harvard Law School's Berkman Centre for Internet and Society.''
''...Rob Faris, research director at the Berkman Center at Harvard, invited questions from the audience after his presentation on the state of internet freedom...''
''Created by the OpenNet Initiative (ONI)...this week's Tuesday Map plots the top 6,000 Persian language blogs according to the links among them, showing both those blocked (left) and visible (right) inside Iran.''
''Maxim Weinstein, manager of StopBadware.org at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, told SCMagazineUS.com Monday that Apple should have all along considered this a serious threat that needs a patch...''
'''The notion that companies chartered in the United States do things in other countries they would never dream of doing in the United States is discomforting, obviously,'' says John Palfrey, executive director of the Berkman Center..."
''The broadcast model of branding - the traditional push - distilled a brand into its simplest form, while reaching the most consumers possible and offending the fewest, says David Weinberger, a fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet &
''A Web site must merely act in 'bad faith' — no financial profit need be involved, according to Sam Bayard, assistant director of Harvard University's Citizen Media Law Project.''
The Harvard Gazette carries the news, which was announced last Thursday morning during opening remarks at the Berkman@10 conference...
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.
''One fan is Harvard Law School professor John Palfrey, who runs the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. 'A key aspect of the Internet and politics is the ability of young people to be more involved in public discourse.'''
The Berkman Center has been tremendously successful in building its institutional capacity and, in support of its mission to serve the public good, pursuing its ambitious research agenda. We’re now seeking a dynamic new Executive Director to join our incredible team and play a vital role in building on Berkman’s past, extending our success into the next decade.
''I don't want to see a two-tier world where only the experts can survive ... and the non-experts are stuck between something they don't understand and something that limits them,'' Zittrain told Reuters in an interview.
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.
''Jonathan Zittrain claims that the very thing that makes the Internet great--its "generative" or innovative nature--is being locked down in a new wave of closed devices like the iPhone, Xbox, TiVo and the OnStar system.''
''The Internet allows the masses to wrest control of fame from traditional media, creating micro-celebrities with the click of a mouse, says David Weinberger of the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society.''
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.
'''This conference was an idea waiting to happen,' said David Weinberger, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. He kicked off the confab with a keynote speech examining the Web's new brand of celebrity, where popul
''In his writings, Zittrain has raised a red flag over the hidden price paid by consumers who willingly adopted so-called closed devices in return for a promise of stability.''
'''The number of potential cultural memes goes up in a straight line with the increase of internet population,' said David Weinberger, a fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society and author of Clueless Manifesto, a book on the economy
''Stopbadware.org -- an organization that includes tech thought leaders from Harvard, Oxford as well as sponsors like Google and Sun Microsystems - threatened last week to slap a "badware" label on Apple's updater.''
''China has the world's "most sophisticated" Internet filtering system, according to the OpenNet Initiative, an academic cooperative that tracks censorship issues.''
''The Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society is about to celebrate its 10th anniversary. What, you don't know about the Berkman Center...''
''According to Ethan Zuckerman, a fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, some nations like Zimbabwe even deploy security agents—or people who act like them—to wander the aisles at cafés, glancing at<sep/>
''Wendy M. Seltzer, a fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society who is familiar with Mr. Galloway's case, believes the Debord estate is overreaching.''
''Is the iPhone killing the 'Net? That's the question posed by Oxford University Professor Jonathan Zittrain in his new book, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It.''
