Berkman Center for Internet and Society: Video Fishbowl

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Peek inside the Berkman Center's Video Fishbowl: Conversations with leading cyber-scholars, entrepreneurs, activists, and policymakers as they explore the bleeding edge of the internet and technology, democracy, law, and society. (Also available as audio) From the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University

  1. 05/31/2016 · VIDEO

    Dalia Topelson Ritvo and Kira Hessekiel: Exploring Corporate Structures and Governance Models for the Open-Source Community

    Organizations that develop open source software are often inherently fragmented and loosely-networked, which can make governance and decision-making a challenge. In addition, as the open source community grows and becomes more global, so too has the need to establish strong governance models and corporate structures that allow an organization to achieve its mission, and foster […]

  2. 05/24/2016 · VIDEO

    Michel Bauwens: Are We Shifting to a New Post-Capitalist Value Regime?

    Every 500 years or so, European civilization and now world civilization, has been rocked by fundamental shifts in its value regime, in which the rules of the game for acquiring wealth and livelihoods have dramatically changed. Following Benkler’s seminal Wealth of Networks, which first identifies peer production, the P2P Foundation has collated a vast amount […]

  3. 05/17/2016 · VIDEO

    Vikki S. Katz on How Lower-Income Families Respond to Digital Equity Challenges

    While 94% of parents raising school-age children below the U.S. median household income have an Internet connection, more than half are “under-connected,” in that their Internet connection is too slow, has been interrupted in the past year due to non-payment, and/or they share their Internet-connected devices with too many people. In this talk, Vikki Katz […]

  4. 05/11/2016 · VIDEO

    Ellery Biddle on The Internetish Things of Cuba: Open Source and ‘in the Clear’

    What is it like to use the Internet in fits and starts? How do communities with limited access to the global Internet use digital tools? Beyond sensational media narratives about Havana’s WiFi hotspots and the paquete semanal, there is a complex landscape of Internet access, digital media use and open source software development in Cuba. […]

  5. 05/10/2016 · VIDEO

    Brittany Seymour on Social Communication Strategies for Public Health

    The social nature of today’s Internet is creating new public health and policy challenges. For example, the US in 2014 experienced the largest measles outbreak in nearly a generation, which led to the passing of the nation’s most conservative vaccine legislation, eliminating the personal belief exemption in California. Research has identified online misinformation about vaccines […]

  6. 05/04/2016 · VIDEO

    Dr. Michel Reymond on Finding Common Standards for the Right to be Forgotten

    Following the 2014 Google Spain decision rendered by the European Court of Justice of the European Union, search engines – and, first among them, Google – are tasked with the delisting of search results leading to outdated or inaccurate information about European citizens. This ‘right to be delisted’ has since then revealed itself as a […]

  7. 05/03/2016 · VIDEO

    Carl Williams on Black 2.0: the New Liberation Movement

    Carl Williams joins us to speak about the current Black Liberation movement. What and who it is, how it started, and how Twitter, Facebook (yes, Facebook) and other social media played a part. About Carl Carl joined the ACLU of Massachusetts as staff attorney in September 2013. He was previously a criminal defense attorney with […]

  8. 04/28/2016 · VIDEO

    Susan Crawford on Why the Right Digital Decisions Will Make America Strong

    The U.S. still lags behind much of the developed world in terms of the speed and density of its internet infrastructure. In the 21st Century this disparity in access to high speed internet could stand as a critical challenge to competitiveness in many areas, from industry and commerce, to healthcare and education, to civic life […]

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Peek inside the Berkman Center's Video Fishbowl: Conversations with leading cyber-scholars, entrepreneurs, activists, and policymakers as they explore the bleeding edge of the internet and technology, democracy, law, and society. (Also available as audio) From the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University

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