Upcoming Events and Digital Media Roundup

BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
April 7, 2009 // Upcoming events and digital media

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[1] [TODAY 4/8/09] "CouchSurfing: What one website reveals about the future of the net" with CouchSurfing Founder Daniel Hoffer and Harvard Law School Professor Jonathan Zittrain (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2009/04/hoffer)

[2] [MONDAY 4/13/09] Law Lab Speaker Series: "Law for a Flat World: Building Legal Infrastructure for the New Economy" with Gillian K Hadfield of USC (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/lawlab/2009/04/hadfield)

[3] [TUESDAY 4/14/09] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "The Internet Governance Model as Seen From an Eastern European Perspective" with Veni Markovski (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/04/markovski)

[TODAY] COUCHSURFING: WHAT ONE WEBSITE REVEALS ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET
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4/8/09, 2:00 PM ET, Pound Hall Room 100, Harvard Law School
Map: http://map.harvard.edu/level3.cfm?mapname=camb_allston&tile=F6&quadrant=C&series=N
Free and Open to the Public
RSVP Requested (rsvp@cyber.harvard.edu) or (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=59564797853&ref=mf)

Topic: CouchSurfing: What one website reveals about the future of the net

Guest: Daniel Hoffer, Founder of Couchsurfing & Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School

Daniel Hoffer, Founder and Chairman of CouchSurfing, will be interviewed by Berkman Faculty Co-Director and Professor of Law Jonathan Zittrain.

CouchSurfing is a worldwide network for making connections between travelers and the local communities they visit.

About Daniel

Daniel Hoffer has been working with online communities and the Internet since 1990, when he ran an online Bulletin Board System (BBS) and created a statewide educational program in Massachusetts to connect physically disabled patients with elementary and high school students online.

Daniel first worked closely with CouchSurfing co-founders Casey Fenton and Sebastien Letuan in 1999 at Fuxito Worldwide, a venture-backed international soccer website he co-founded. Since then, Daniel has worked full-time as a management consultant, in corporate strategy at NEC Corporation, and in sales and marketing at Siebel Systems, in marketing at Sibel Systems and in product management at Symantec.

Daniel has appeared on the cover of Inc. Magazine and been featured on the front page of the Boston Globe, as well as on ABC Nightline, NBC News, National Public Radio, and in the New York Times and Time Magazine. He has also been a guest lecturer at Columbia Business School, the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley, UCLA Anderson School of Business, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and MacWorld Expo. Daniel serves or has served on the Board of Directors of CouchSurfing International, the American Jewish Commitee, the Association for Strategic Planning, Chi Fountain, the Harvard Club of Silicon Valley, and on the Advisory Boards of Tangerine Wellness and Inner Circle Logistics.

Daniel received a BA from Harvard College in Philosophy and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2009/04/hoffer

[MONDAY] LAW LAB SPEAKER SERIES on LAW FOR A FLAT WORLD
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4/13/09, 12:30 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room
RSVP is required (rsvp@cyber.harvard.edu).

Topic: Law for a Flat World: Building Legal Infrastructure for the New Economy
Guest: Gillian K Hadfield of USC

While complaints about spiraling legal fees are widespread, general counsel in our most innovative firms are voicing a different, more troubling, complaint: they can’t buy the type of legal inputs they need in the current legal marketplace. The problem they are identifying is a deeply structural one. Adapted to the needs of the standardized mega-firm managerial economy of the past century, the legal infrastructure available to support innovative business models is badly out of step with the demands of a global web-based environment. In this presentation I’ll talk about how and why our legal infrastructure is outdated and ill-suited to the new economy, looking mostly to the non-market or protected-market mechanisms on which we rely for the production of legal inputs. These mechanisms leave us with legal solutions that are overly complex, slow to react, excessively costly and often misguided about the on-the-ground realities of the networked, high velocity, heterogeneous, risk-laden and fluid economic relationships that characterize the new economy. Opening up the mechanisms for producing law and legal inputs to a greater role for market-based solutions is a central challenge for legal infrastructure development in the 21st century.

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/lawlab/2009/04/hadfield

[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on THE EUROPEAN INTERNET GOVERNANCE MODEL
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4/14/09, 12:30 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room
RSVP is required (rsvp@cyber.harvard.edu).

Topic: The Internet Governance Model as Seen From an Eastern European Perspective
Guest: Veni Markovski

What is the Internet governance model as seen from an Eastern European perspective? Why does the US keep the button to 'shut down' the Internet?

About Veni

Veni Markovski was born 1968 in Skopie, Macedonia. He started working on the Internet in September 1990, by becoming one of the first system operators of a Bulletin Board System in Sofia, Bulgaria. By 1993 he has founded the second in history Internet Service Provider in Bulgaria - BOL.BG. In 1995 he founded the Bulgarian Internet Society. More: http://www.veni.com/cv.html

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/04/markovski

OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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[1] 4/8/09 "The 140-Character Mission: Social Media & Entrepreneurship" (http://www.tie-boston.org/TGS/EM/viewevent/viewEventPT?id_event=3173)

[2] 4/8/09 C4FCM Lecture Series: "Sam Gregory of Witness" (http://civic.mit.edu/event/c4fcm-lecture-series-sam-gregory-of-witness)

[3] 5/2/09 New Media Literacy's "Learning in a Participatory Culture"
(http://newmedialiteracies.org/)

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.harvard.edu/interactive.

-RADIO BERKMAN: What do you call a web-enabled political system? (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/podcasts/radioberkman116)

-BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES with TIM HWANG on "The LOLCat-hedral and the Bizarre: A Memescape Manifesto" (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/luncheons/2009/04/hwang)

-THE WIKIPEDIA REVOLUTION: A Web of Ideas Talk with ANDREW LIH and DAVID WEINBERGER (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/2009/03/lih)

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