We’ve revived the iLaw program after a five-year hiatus. This year, it’s an experiment in teaching at Harvard Law School: part class (for about 125 students) and part conference (with friends from around the world here for the week). And JZ has taken the baton from Terry Fisher as our iLaw Chair. An exciting day. … Read more
Roby Alampay nails some of the key issues related to Internet governance and international law in an editorial today in the Washington Post. It’s well worth a read, especially if you’ve been following the Myanmar crackdown. Alampay also makes a key link: the issue of Internet access should be perceived to be a human rights … Read more
A week or so ago, we at the Berkman Center joined our friends and colleagues at the Oxford Internet Institute in hosting an academic pre-briefing related to the Internet Governance Forum. The IGF, announced in July by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, is the process and institution that has grown out of the two … Read more
The unstoppable Wendy Seltzer has a post on the week in Internet & governance. In particular, she contextualizes two recent hearings related to open standards online.
Prof. Geist has released “In the Public Interest,” a compilation of 19 essays on Canada’s copyright struggles as a new round of copyright reform gets underway. “As Canada embarks on a new round of digital copyright reform, this collection of 19 essays from Canada’s leading copyright experts provides context and analysis of the latest reform … Read more
So, the United States is mad that the EU and others want to reduce the US control over the domain name system, as exercised through a contract between the US Department of Commerce and ICANN. I agree wholeheartedly that the system of management of the DNS, which has worked well at a technical level, is … Read more
NPR’s On the Media offers weekly podcasts of its shows. This week includes a segment on Internet governance. (Here’s the feed, for future reference. It belongs in your podcast aggregator.)
Today we launched the site of our Net Dialogue project, which we hope will shed some light on the perpetual question of “why should you care about internet governance?”. Amazing work over the course of a year by Mary Rundle, a fellow jointly at the Berkman Center and our sister Stanford Center for Internet & … Read more
I’ve just arrived in Seoul for an International Symposium on the role of the public in internet governance, hosted by NIDA, KRNIC, and APNG. The hotel, not surprisingly, has a blazing broadband connection (hooray for such good broadband penetration!). The city was bustling, even on a Sunday. I am hoping, while I’m here, also to … Read more