OpenNet Initiative Events

Russia Online: the Russian-Language Blogosphere and Participatory Internet

ashar — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:38:44 -0400

Conference Wiki: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/russiaonline/Main_Page
User: russiaonline
PW: columbia

Berkman Book Release: Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering

ashar — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:01:55 -0500

The OpenNet Initiative’s new book, Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering, is now on bookshelves, and we invite you to celebrate with us.

Edited by the Principal Investigators of the OpenNet Initiative, Access Denied explores the landscape of censorship-oriented controls on Internet content, from the technology behind it to the policy that supports it and the social implications of it.

OpenNet Initiative Conference: The Future of Free Expression on the Internet

ashar — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:04:32 -0500

The OpenNet Initiative held its first public conference to discuss the current state of play of Internet filtering worldwide. The conference was hosted by the Oxford Internet Institute and held at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford on May 18, 2007.

The agenda and more information can be found on this page.

Multimedia from the conference can be found here.

Access Denied: the Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering

rfink — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:11:17 -0500

Rob Faris, the OpenNet Initiative’s Research Director, and John Palfrey, one of the project’s Principal Investigators, lead a discussion of Internet filtering and provided a glimpse of the results of ONI's first global survey of Internet censorship.

Securing Human Rights Online: Addressing Long-term Problems of Sustainability, Coordination, and Resources

rfink — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:56:49 -0500

Ron Deibert, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto.

Prof. Deibert, who is also a principal investigator in the OpenNet Initiative, discussed "Securing Human Rights Online: Addressing Long-term Problems of Sustainability, Coordination, and Resource." Prof. Deibert focused on the potential in Citizen Lab's new censorship circumvention software, psiphon.

Filtering

rfink — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:36:28 -0500

Richard Clayton presented "Failures in a Hybrid Content Blocking System" at the PET2005 workshop in Croatia, and spoke to the Berkman community tomorrow about the technical challenges to accurate filtering. Filtering has been an issue of great interest to the Berkman community, several members of which are involved with the university-based OpenNet Initiative.

Internet Law Colloquium: Internet filtering and censorship

rfink — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:45:15 -0500

Internet Law Colloquium: 20 April 2005: Following the release of the OpenNet Initiative's study on China's filtering, the ILC discussed Internet filtering and censorship. Please read the following:

Internet Filtering in Saudi Arabia

rfink — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:52:17 -0500

Berkman Luncheon Series: 9/14/04 - Berkman Center Student Fellow Jeffrey Engerman on Internet Filtering in Saudi Arabia