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  Berkman Center for Internet & Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Berkman Center for Internet and Society is a department of Harvard Law School, which focuses on the legal study of cyberspace.
Members of the Center do research and write books, articles, weblogs with RSS 2.0 feeds, for which the Center holds the specification, and podcasts, of which the first series took place at the Berkman Center.
The Berkman Center is funding the Openlaw project.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Berkman_Center_for_Internet_and_Society   (198 words)

  
 Computers Internet Policy
Home--Berkman Center for Internet and Society - The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School is a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development.
Internet Democracy Project homepage - The Internet Democracy Project seeks to enhance the participation of Internet users worldwide in non-governmental bodies that are setting Internet policy and to advocate that these bodies adhere to principles of open participation, public accountability and human rights.
Internet Governance - The ACM is broadly interested in issues affecting the growth and development of the Internet, including the creation and activities of organizations that develop technical standards, set policies, and otherwise influence the future of the Net.
www.dmoz.org.pl /Computers/Internet/Policy   (835 words)

  
 iLaw México   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
At the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, our pioneering annual conference on Internet and the law explores the changing legal systems governing the Internet and the implications for a wide range of people and their organizations.
The Berkman Center is a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development.
The Center investigates the real and possible boundaries in cyberspace between open and closed systems of code, of commerce, of governance and of education, and the relationship of law to each.
www.ilaw.org.mx /home.php   (538 words)

  
 Berkman Center receives $600,000 digital media grant - The Record - News
The Berkman Center for Internet and Society received its largest research grant to date from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for $600,000 for its Digital Media Project.
As the largest grant that the six-year old Berkman Center has ever received, the Center plans to place this project on "top priority." To that end, the Berkman Center plans to hire two new research fellows, one to research the business repercussions of the five scenarios and one to research the economical aspects.
Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet Society is a research program founded to explore cyberspace, including numerous faculty members and approximately 20 students.
www.hlrecord.org /news/2003/11/06/News/Berkman.Center.Receives.600000.Digital.Media.Grant-551059.shtml   (1405 words)

  
 Lessig Named 1st Berkman Professor
The funding will support the Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professorship for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies, as well as the activities of the School's Center for Internet and Society, which will now be known as the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
He was chairman of The Associated Group, Inc., and its predecessor, Associated Communications Corp. Together with his son, Myles P. Berkman, JD '61, and his two grandsons, Jack Berkman and his family transformed their vision of the future of communications into significant operation businesses.
Berkman joined the Harvard Law School Visiting Committee in 1996 and is a charter member of the HLS Dean's Advisory Board.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/1998/03.05/LessigNamed1stB.html   (567 words)

  
 Center for Internet and Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Berkman Center for Internet and Society, at Harvard Law School
Stanford Center for Internet and Society, at Stanford Law School
This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Center_for_Internet_and_Society   (97 words)

  
 Berkman Center for Internet and Society : Innovation : HBS Working Knowledge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Established in 1995, the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School represents a diverse network of faculty, students, fellows, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and virtual architects collaborating on research, writing, and education about cyberlaw.
The Berkman Center's online education series offers lectures and discussions on topics ranging from free speech and online privacy to the digital distribution of music.
Descriptions of the Center's research projects and related courses can be found on the site.
hbswk.hbs.edu /web-review.jhtml?id=2466&t=innovation   (125 words)

  
 Symposium on Social Architectures at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School... | Digital ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Estee and I have been invited as Fellows to the Symposium on Social Architectures (http://www.corante.com/events/ssa/) at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/) in two weeks.
The event is a partnership between the Berkman Center and Corante (http://www.corante.com/about.php), the world's first blog media company.
The SSA, produced by Corante in partnership with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School, will host many of the movement’s leading developers, entrepreneurs, thinkers and analysts in a series of lively panels, interviews, talks, and informal events designed to dig deep into the issues driving the ‘social revolution’.
fellows.rdvp.org /teddyzmrhal/blog/syposiumonsocialarchitecturesattheberkmancenterforinternetandsocietyatharvardlawschool   (436 words)

  
 AT&T Worldnet Service - Directory
The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School is a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development.
The Internet Democracy Project seeks to enhance the participation of Internet users worldwide in non-governmental bodies that are setting Internet policy and to advocate that these bodies adhere to principles of open participation, public accountability and human rights.
People For Internet Responsibility (PFIR) is a global, grassroots, ad hoc network of individuals who are concerned about the current and future operations, development, management, and regulation of the Internet in responsible manners.
www.att.net /cgi-bin/webdrill?catkey=gwd/Top/Computers/Internet/Policy   (838 words)

  
 Project Page: The Berkman Center for Internet and Society
The Markle Foundation, in conjuction with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, helped organize the "Pressing Issues II: Understanding and Critiquing ICANN's Policy Agenda" conference on November 12th, 2000, which preceded the ICANN Board meeting.
The conference examined many of the new challenges and issues on ICANN's agenda, such as the intersection of intellectual property and privacy concerns in ICANN's policy-making process, the import of the process and outcome of the first at-large elections, and the application process and criteria for new Top Level Domain (TLD) name applications.
This project is part of Markle's Internet Governance Project, which promoted public interest in non-traditional, international Internet governing bodies.
www.markle.org /markle_programs/project_archives/1999/icann_berkman.php   (828 words)

  
 Swiss House: Event   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Internet & Society 2004 conference, entitled "Votes, Bits, and Bytes".
He is involved in the analysis of citizens' evaluation of the e-voting project in the Canton of Geneva at the E-Democracy Center of University of Geneva.
Jonathan Zittrain is a co-founder of HLS's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and served as its first executive director from 1997-2000.
www.creativeswitzerland.com /events/20041210_evoting/20041210_evoting_invite.html   (502 words)

  
 New tool sheds light on international Net governance: Stanford and Harvard offer model for transparency and public ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Today Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society and Stanford's Center for Internet and Society announced the launch of www.NetDialogue.org, a website that reports Internet-related decisions by international organizations, points to other useful resources, and provides a forum for discussion on individual initiatives.
The Berkman Center has a particular interest in projects that grapple with issues raised by the global nature of the Internet.
The Berkman Center investigates the real and possible boundaries in cyberspace between open and closed systems of code, of commerce, of governance, and of education, and the relationship of law to each.
www.law.stanford.edu /about/news/2005/02/008.html   (650 words)

  
 Internet Public Library: Pathfinders
Harvard's "Berkman Center for Internet & Society is a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development." The faculty and fellows of the Berkman Center also include extremely influential figures, like Lawrence Lessig and Jonathan Zittrain, on the law, policy, and technology front.
Digital technology and Internet communications have enabled almost cost-less duplication and dissemination of music, movies, text, or any other media that can be reduced to (and transmitted as) bits of computer code.
Issues of free expression and the Internet range from questions of the status and application of First Amendment concepts such as "obscenity" and "community standards" in cyberspace to the politically and technically difficult issues of internet 'filtering' technology.
www.ipl.org /div/pf/entry/48511   (2655 words)

  
 SSRN-The Accountable Net: Peer Production of Internet Governance by David Johnson, Susan Crawford, John Palfrey
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School Virginia Journal of Law and Technology, Vol.
There has been a great deal of loose talk about the need for "internet governance," particularly in the context most recently of the World Summit on the Information Society, but much less careful analysis of the question whether the online world really does pose special problems, or present special opportunities, for collective action.
There has been a general discussion as to whether the internet, as a general rule, lends itself to governance by traditional sovereigns or if something in the net's architecture resists such forms of control.
papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=529022   (517 words)

  
 U.S. Newswire : Releases : "Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet &..."   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
About the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University: The Berkman Center is a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development.
Berkman Center represents a network of faculty, students, fellows, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and virtual architects working to identify and engage with the challenges and opportunities of cyberspace.
Berkman Center also supports the traditional Harvard Law School curriculum, often in conjunction with other Harvard schools and MIT.
releases.usnewswire.com /GetRelease.asp?id=52968   (583 words)

  
 DaveNet : Berkman Hosts RSS 2.0 spec
On July 15, UserLand Software transferred ownership of its RSS 2.0 specification to the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.
Berkman then placed a Creative Commons license on the spec, allowing it to be customized, excerpted and republished.
An advisory board, independent of Berkman and Harvard, was formed to broaden the public understanding of the uses and benefits of RSS, and to guide developers who create RSS applications.
davenet.scripting.com /2003/07/28/harvardHostsKeyWeblogSpec   (595 words)

  
 Stanford Center for Internet and Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development.
The Chilling Effect Clearinghouse is a joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, and University of Maine law school clinics.
The Law, Science, and Technology Program at Stanford Law School is the umbrella program for the Center for Internet and Society.
cyberlaw.stanford.edu /links   (559 words)

  
 Project Page: ICANN-Related Work
The first initiative of Markle's Internet Governance Project, was a partnership with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
In conjucntion with this project, Markle also provided support for efforts and initiatives run by organizations such as The Carter Center, the Common Cause, American Library Association, Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and the Center for Democracy and Technology.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the unique organization responsible for coordinating certain key Internet resources, has devoted a significant part of its energy to change its structure and processes.
www.markle.org /markle_programs/project_archives/1999/icann.php   (989 words)

  
 IFWP and Berkman Center pointers FYI.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
One of these activities is a meeting to be hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.
The Berkman Center meeting will be of the "lock the major parties in the room" variety on the Harvard Law School campus Saturday and Sunday, September 12-13, with reports of progress and issues dispatched regularly over the Net.
Our meeting, your meeting, and for that matter the entire effort to create a viable "newco," depend on intense participation and work in a spirit of compromise by those stakeholders sufficiently invested to be able to effectively veto any newco proposal that does not answer their concerns.
www.cctec.com /maillists/ietf/msg02086.html   (429 words)

  
 Home - Berkman Center for Internet & Society
His main areas of research are new media and statehood, authentication media, political economy of the Internet and the European unification and its media.
Yesterday Kenneth Cukier, technology correspondent for the Economist, visited us at the Berkman Center to discuss his "Market of Ideas," a piece in which he argues that patents are good for both the industry and consumers (published Oct. 20 in The Economist).
That the room was filled with both lawyers and techies, as befits the Berkman Center, was particularly intimidating.
cyber.law.harvard.edu /home   (1980 words)

  
 FAQ - Berkman Center for Internet & Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Center on Law and Technology then changed its name to the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, and has steadily expanded ever since.
Our website is the most abundant and up-to-date source of information about the Berkman Center, its objectives, and its endeavors, but we also have some more general, printed informational materials available that you can request by sending an email to
There are innumerable (and overlapping) ways to get involved with the Berkman Center--as a financial supporter, a volunteer, an intern, a fellow, a conference participant, or an online lecture and discussion series participant, to name a few.
bcis.law.harvard.edu /home/faq   (714 words)

  
 Mental Health Organizations And Events HAR to HARZ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
It is known throughout the Former Soviet Union for its influence on the new Russian psychology, and is currently one of the primary coordinating and training centers in Russia for hotline and emergency services, as well as for practical training of psychotherapists and educators.
Today, as part of Hartford Hospital, it is one of America's leading not-for-profit centers for comprehensive patient care, research and education in the fields of behavioral, psychiatric, and addiction disorders.
The mission of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society is to explore and understand cyberspace, its development, dynamics, norms, standards, and need or lack thereof for laws and sanctions.
www.umdnj.edu /psyevnts/meetingsHARHARZ.html   (1356 words)

  
 Presentation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The discussion focused on the key recommendations of the Berkman Center’s latest report, “Roadmap to Open ICT Ecosystems,” and invited the audience feedback on how governments, industry, and civil society can collaborate to build and benefit from open ICT ecosystems.
Jeff Kaplan, cofounder and director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, offered the closing remarks in which he mentioned that the roadmap was designed to help policy makers and experts to determine ways of building, using, and promoting openness through the ICT ecosystem.
Berkman Center for Internet and Society: Roadmap to Open ICT Ecosystems (pdf document)
info.worldbank.org /etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1592&EID=778   (637 words)

  
 ISTE | Home | Dr. David Weinberger, Author and Harvard Fellow, is Keynote Speaker for NECC 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Washington, DC—Dr. David Weinberger, author and Fellow at Harvard’s prestigious Berkman Center for Internet and Society, will be the opening keynote speaker at the 26th Annual National Educational Computing Conference (NECC).
The world’s largest and most comprehensive educational technology event, NECC is presented by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE®) in cooperation this year with the Pennsylvania Association for Educational Communications and Technology (PAECT), and with additional support from the School District of Philadelphia.
The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) is the trusted source in education technology for professional development, knowledge generation, and advocacy.
www.iste.org /Template.cfm?Section=Home&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=4910   (547 words)

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