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Felipe Heusser on O...
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20:11:58 02/07/12

Felipe Heusser — Founder and Director of Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente, a Latin American NGO based in Chile that uses information technology to promote transpare...

Felipe Heusser on Open Government Data for Open Accountability

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Felipe Heusser on Open Government Data for Open Accountability

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Felipe Heusser — Founder and Director of Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente, a Latin American NGO based in Chile that uses information technology to promote transparency and active citizen participation, and a Berkman Fellow — gives an overview the spread of transparency policy through freedom of information regulation, and point out to the rise of ‘Open Government [...]

David Weinberger on...
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19:10:30 02/03/12

We used to know how to know. Get some experts, maybe a methodology, add some criteria and credentials, publish the results, and you get knowledge we can all rely o...

David Weinberger on Too Big To Know

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David Weinberger on Too Big To Know

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We used to know how to know. Get some experts, maybe a methodology, add some criteria and credentials, publish the results, and you get knowledge we can all rely on. But as knowledge is absorbed by our new digital medium, it’s becoming clear that the fundamentals of knowledge are not properties of knowledge but of [...]

Rebecca MacKinnon o...
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17:00:51 02/03/12

Many commentators have debated whether the Internet is ultimately a force for freedom of expression and political liberation, or for alienation, and repression. Re...

Rebecca MacKinnon on The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom

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Rebecca MacKinnon on The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom

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Many commentators have debated whether the Internet is ultimately a force for freedom of expression and political liberation, or for alienation, and repression. Rebecca MacKinnon — Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, cofounder of Global Voices, and a former CNN Bureau Chief for Beijing and Tokyo — discusses her new book, [...]

Andres Monroy-Herna...
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18:15:33 01/31/12

The Scratch Online Community allows young people to share and remix their own video games and animations, as well as those of their peers. In four years, the commu...

Andres Monroy-Hernandez on Designing for Remixing: Computer-su...

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Andres Monroy-Hernandez on Designing for Remixing: Computer-supported Social Creativity

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The Scratch Online Community allows young people to share and remix their own video games and animations, as well as those of their peers. In four years, the community has grown to close to a million registered members and more than two million user-contributed projects. Andrés Monroy-Hernández — the developer of Scratch, a post-doctoral researcher [...]

Beth Kolko on Hacka...
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21:35:09 01/24/12

How and why do nonexperts contribute to innovation? The conflict between expertise and innovation sits uneasily in academia, where the enterprise hinges on doling ...

Beth Kolko on Hackademia: Leveraging the Conflict Between Expe...

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Beth Kolko on Hackademia: Leveraging the Conflict Between Expertise and Innovation to Create Disruptive Technologies

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How and why do nonexperts contribute to innovation? The conflict between expertise and innovation sits uneasily in academia, where the enterprise hinges on doling out official credentials. But a lack of expertise can in fact drive people to create the kind of disruptive technologies that really are game-changers. In this presentation Beth Kolko — Professor [...]

Justin Reich on How...
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18:18:29 01/17/12

The explosion of open education content resources create unprecedented opportunities for teachers to design and personalize curriculum and to give students opportu...

Justin Reich on How Free and Open Education Might Widen Digita...

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Justin Reich on How Free and Open Education Might Widen Digital Divides

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The explosion of open education content resources create unprecedented opportunities for teachers to design and personalize curriculum and to give students opportunities to collaborate, publish, and take responsibility for their own learning, free of charge. Is it possible, however, that because affluent schools and students have a greater capacity to take up new innovations, that [...]

Alison J. Head on M...
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19:02:29 01/10/12

What is it like to be a college student in the digital age? Alison Head — lead researcher for the national study, Project Information Literacy, Berkman Fellow, and...

Alison J. Head on Modeling the Information-Seeking Process of ...

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Alison J. Head on Modeling the Information-Seeking Process of College Students in the Digital Age

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What is it like to be a college student in the digital age? Alison Head — lead researcher for the national study, Project Information Literacy, Berkman Fellow, and Research Scientist in University of Washington’s Information School — presents a working typology of the undergraduate information-seeking process, including students’ reliance on and use of Web sources. [...]

Celebrating Two Yea...
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20:20:41 12/13/11

As the OMLN nears the end of its second year, it has helped over 160 clients with more than 330 separate legal matters, and has more than 225 firms, clinics and in...

Celebrating Two Years with the Online Media Legal Network

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Celebrating Two Years with the Online Media Legal Network

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As the OMLN nears the end of its second year, it has helped over 160 clients with more than 330 separate legal matters, and has more than 225 firms, clinics and individual attorneys in its roster with coverage in all 50 U.S. states. Jeff Hermes, Andy Sellars, David Ardia, and others from the OMLN community [...]

The Fate of Civic E...
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15:46:14 12/09/11

Civic education is the cultivation of knowledge and traits that sustain democratic self-governance. As the social networks of individuals become less based on geog...

The Fate of Civic Education in a Connected World

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The Fate of Civic Education in a Connected World

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Civic education is the cultivation of knowledge and traits that sustain democratic self-governance. As the social networks of individuals become less based on geography and more based on friendships and common interests, consensus on shared civic values seems harder to achieve. Charles Nesson joins Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Peter Levine, Harry Lewis, Elizabeth Lynn, and Juan [...]

Jeff Jarvis on Publ...
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21:13:08 12/06/11

Thanks to the internet, we now live — more and more — in public. Yet change brings fear, and many people—nostalgic for a more homogeneous mass culture and provoked...

Jeff Jarvis on Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Im...

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Jeff Jarvis on Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live

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Thanks to the internet, we now live — more and more — in public. Yet change brings fear, and many people—nostalgic for a more homogeneous mass culture and provoked by well-meaning advocates for privacy—despair that the internet and how we share there is making us dumber, crasser, distracted, and vulnerable to threats of all kinds. [...]

OpenCourt: Transpar...
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20:33:25 11/29/11

With the support of a Knight News Challenge grant OpenCourt streams and archives live daily coverage of court sessions. The project seeks to make courts more acces...

OpenCourt: Transparency in the Court

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OpenCourt: Transparency in the Court

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With the support of a Knight News Challenge grant OpenCourt streams and archives live daily coverage of court sessions. The project seeks to make courts more accessible to the public through technology while respecting legitimate concerns about privacy. John Davidow (Executive Producer), Joe Spurr (Director), and Val Wang (Producer) join the Berkman Center community to [...]

Mayo Fuster Morell ...
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03:06:30 11/23/11

In the context of multiple crises – ecological, political, financial and geopolitical restructuring – there are emerging forms of social cooperation. In the Spanis...

Mayo Fuster Morell on the Spanish Revolution & the Internet: F...

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Mayo Fuster Morell on the Spanish Revolution & the Internet: From Free Culture to Meta-Politics

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In the context of multiple crises – ecological, political, financial and geopolitical restructuring – there are emerging forms of social cooperation. In the Spanish case, we have seen some of the largest demonstrations since the country made its transition to democracy in the 70s with massive occupations of public squares, attempts to prevent parliaments’ functioning [...]

Book Talk: John Pal...
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21:39:51 11/22/11

Most entrepreneurs, corporate managers and nonprofit administrators leave intellectual property issues to the legal department, unaware that an organization’s inte...

Book Talk: John Palfrey on Intellectual Property Strategy

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Book Talk: John Palfrey on Intellectual Property Strategy

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Most entrepreneurs, corporate managers and nonprofit administrators leave intellectual property issues to the legal department, unaware that an organization’s intellectual property can help accomplish a range of management goals, from accessing new markets to improving existing products to generating new revenue streams. John Palfrey — Henry N. Ess Professor of Law and Vice Dean for [...]

John Williams on In...
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03:46:08 11/11/11

How do organizations — both for-profit and not-for-profit — achieve strategic clarity, and why does it matter? How does one go about re-positioning an iconic produ...

John Williams on Interweaving Strategy, Leadership, Web Entrep...

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John Williams on Interweaving Strategy, Leadership, Web Entrepreneurship and Social Sector Impact

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How do organizations — both for-profit and not-for-profit — achieve strategic clarity, and why does it matter? How does one go about re-positioning an iconic product or organization when the market changes? What did it take to launch the first Webby Award-winning online travel business? How do the most sophisticated not-for-profits and philanthropists think about [...]

Jonathan Lazar on A...
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18:31:00 11/08/11

Despite the existing resources, knowledge, and regulations, many categories of web sites continue to be inaccessible for people with perceptual and motor disabilit...

Jonathan Lazar on Accessible Web Design for People with Disabi...

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Jonathan Lazar on Accessible Web Design for People with Disabilities

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Despite the existing resources, knowledge, and regulations, many categories of web sites continue to be inaccessible for people with perceptual and motor disabilities. 90% of federal government web sites, many social media tools, many e-commerce web sites, and online employment applications are often inaccessible, denying people with disabilities access to the complete power of the [...]

Jonathan Lazar on A...
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18:31:00 11/08/11

Despite the existing resources, knowledge, and regulations, many categories of web sites continue to be inaccessible for people with perceptual and motor disabilit...

Jonathan Lazar on Accessible Web Design for People with Disabi...

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Jonathan Lazar on Accessible Web Design for People with Disabilities

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Despite the existing resources, knowledge, and regulations, many categories of web sites continue to be inaccessible for people with perceptual and motor disabilities. 90% of federal government web sites, many social media tools, many e-commerce web sites, and online employment applications are often inaccessible, denying people with disabilities access to the complete power of the [...]

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02/07/12

Felipe Heusser — Founder and Director of Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente, a Latin American NGO based in Chile that uses information technology to promote transparency and active citizen participation, and a Berkman Fellow — gives an overview the spread of transparency policy through freedom of information regulation, and point out to the rise of ‘Open Government [...]