I just received in the mail the hard-copy edition of the Sixteenth Annual Theodore H. White Lecture, hosted by the Joan Shorenstein Center at the Kennedy School at Harvard. Peter Beinart, editor-at-large of the New Republic gave the lecture on October 27, 2005. The full text is worth reading. (It is available online as a … Read more
The final day of our three-day swing through the UK, the second annual Global Voices conference, was invigorating. The team of 75+ who assembled — bloggers and editors from around the world, actor Richard Dreyfuss, academics like us, the executives from Reuters and foundations like MacArthur and Soros who are supporting it — comprise an … Read more
Today we’re 50 miles south of Oxford, in London, near Paddington, for a small-group session on Internet, filtering, blogging, and human rights. It’s amazing group that brings some of the global voices crowd — gathered here for GV II tomorrow — together with human rights activists and technologists from the OpenNet Initiative. The idea is … Read more
Today starts a three-day swing through the UK by those of us at the Berkman Center who work on issues related to Internet & democracy. * Today, we’re with our partners at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) with about 25 scholars and activists who work on e-Participation. The events officially kicked off with a public … Read more