In my previous job (at Andover), I created a list of a few books every term that we would offer to the faculty as “community reads” on what we called the Head of School’s Bookshelf. We set up a bookshelf in the HOS office and distributed as many copies as faculty would like to read. … Read more
We’re gearing up this week to host our first big Internet filtering conference this week, which is already oversubscribed. The event is taking place in Oxford, England, hosted by our partners at the Oxford Internet Institute, in cooperation with our other partners at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab and the University of Cambridge’s Advanced … Read more
As part of our first-ever OpenNet Initiative conference in May, we are participating in a debate at the Oxford Union. The resolution is: “This House believes that the Internet is the greatest force for Democratisation in the World.”
Yale Law School Prof. Yochai Benkler is here at Berkman for the day as part of his book tour for The Wealth of Networks. At Fellows’ hour, this discussion is prompted by a back-and-forth about whether Cass Sunstein was right in his famous Republic.com argument (about the Daily Me). David Weinberger took issue with the … Read more
The report of the hearing, for which I’ve submitted written testimony for the record today, in the United States House of Representatives Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations and Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, is here.
Today in “Internet, Law and Politics,” a course at HLS, students are debating whether or not the Howard Dean Campaign’s online campaigning activities changed campaigning for ever. The basic question: has a new frontier been opened in American politics — that a campaign must have a digital strategy in order to succeed? One side has posted here and … Read more
We at the OpenNet Initiative have built a search-compare tool to show what results you get on google.cn as compared to google.com. Be sure to try out “human rights” and some of the other sample searches we’ve got up there. (Special credits to Nart Villeneuve and Boris Anthony.)
We’ve got David Berlind, executive editor of ZDNet here as part of our Tuesday luncheon series at the Berkman Center today. We’re hoping to rope him into JZ’s cyberlaw class (to talk ODF, SCO, and the like) and also for the fellows’ meeting this afternoon, too. His 75-minute tour-de-force on a range of issues from … Read more
Live blogged notes of a lecture and discussion with Brad Smith, Microsoft’s General Counsel, at the Berkman Center at HLS.
A generally good, clear piece by Fortune senior writer Marc Gunther tackling the important question of the ethics of companies and their involvement in the world’s most repressive regimes from an informational policy standpoint. There are many subtleties between the types of involvement of the companies named in the article, though. We need a reliable … Read more