tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:/hub_feeds/2037/feed_itemsCurrent Berkman People and Projects2017-06-22T18:25:19-04:00TagTeam social RSS aggregratortag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22319682017-06-22T18:25:19-04:002017-06-22T18:25:19-04:00djonesJoin Our 2018 AI Assembly Cohort!<div><h3> Subtitle </h3> <h2> At the Berkman Klein Center and MIT Media Lab </h2> <h3> Teaser </h3> <p> </p><p>The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the MIT Media Lab seek technologists with diverse skill sets to confront the concrete and constantly emerging problems related to artificial intelligence and governance</p> <p></p><div><div>Thumbnail Image: </div><div><div><img alt="" height="120" src="http://cyber.harvard.edu/sites/cyber.harvard.edu/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/thumbnails/Assemblyv2.png?itok=v3Nye7ZU" width="120"></div></div></div> <div> <p>The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the MIT Media Lab are excited to announce the launch of the <strong><a href="http://bkmla.org">2018 Assembly program</a></strong>, a program that brings together 15 to 20 participants from various backgrounds to collaborate on one or more projects that address a specific tech problem.</p><p>After a successful run of the Assembly pilot program in <strong><a href="http://bkmla.org/2017/projects.html">2017</a></strong>, which focused on digital security, the Berkman Klein Center and the MIT Media Lab have combined forces, as part of our larger <strong><a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/research/ai">Ethics and Governance in Artificial Intelligence Initiative</a></strong>, to support a second iteration of the program with a new challenge;<strong> this year’s topic will be artificial intelligence and governance</strong>. </p><p><a href="http://bkmla.org/"><img alt="" src="http://cyber.harvard.edu/~tlin/assembly/images/assembly.png"></a></p><p><strong>We are looking for applicants with experience in one or more of the following areas who also have an interest in artificial intelligence and governance issues:</strong> </p><ul><li>Applied Machine Learning & Data Scientists</li><li>App Developers</li><li>Program and Product Managers</li><li>UX/UI Designers</li><li>Communications Strategists and PR experts</li></ul><p>This is a unique opportunity for participants to learn, connect, and collaborate with other skilled developers and tech professionals across industries and backgrounds, to step back from day-to-day goals, and to explore novel solutions to difficult problems at the Berkman Klein Center and the MIT Media Lab.</p><h3><a href="http://bkmla.org"><strong>Visit the Assembly site for more details and to apply!</strong></a></h3><h3><strong>Applications are now open and will be accepted until Friday, July 31, 2017 at 11:59PM ET. </strong></h3><h3> </h3> </div></div>tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22319702017-06-22T18:25:19-04:002017-06-22T18:25:19-04:00candersenExpanding Access to Medicines and Promoting Innovation: A Practical Approach<div><h3>
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<p><strong>Monday, June 26, 2017 at 12:00 pm
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<p><a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2017/06/Palfrey#RSVP">RSVP required to attend in person</a></p>
<p>Join the live webcast <a href="https://bluejeans.com/867108079/browser">here</a> on June 26 at 12pm (please mute your microphone)</p>
<p>Global Access in Action: Conversations in Global Health, Innovation, & the Digital World</p>
<p><em><strong>This event is being sponsored by the Harvard Global Health Institute and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.</strong></em></p>
<p>Following a rich discussion led by HLS Professor William Fisher this past Monday, we are excited to to announce the second event in our four-part series, "Conversations in Global Health, Innovation & the Digital World" in collaboration with the Harvard Global Health Institute.</p>
<p>Below is a press release on a recent journal article authored by our next speaker, Quentin Palfrey, on practical approaches to increasing global medicine accessibility and encouraging R&D on diseases burdened by the world's most vulnerable populations. The content of the article will be the basis for this upcoming event which is detailed below. We look forward to seeing you there.</p>
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<div><em><strong>Pharma companies can increase access to medicines and spur new R&D by replicating industry best practices, Harvard team argues in new paper</strong></em>
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<div>Cambridge, MA - In a newly-published paper in the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy, Quentin Palfrey highlights practical strategies for how pharmaceutical companies can have a profound impact on humanitarian outcomes without undermining profitability of their ventures. The paper, entitled <em>Expanding Access to Medicines and Promoting Innovation: A Practical Approach</em>,<em> </em>was produced in connection with the <em>Global Access in Action</em> project of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard.</div>
<div>“By adopting sensible approaches that have been used successfully by other companies, pharmaceutical firms can increase access to medicines, conduct critical research and development, and continue to be profitable,” Palfrey argues. “Under some circumstances, there are win-win approaches that can help the world’s poorest afford lifesaving medicines, allow philanthropic funders to have greater impact with limited budgets, and allow pharmaceutical programs to run corporate social responsibility programs that cost less – or even make a profit – while increasing impact,” says Palfrey.</div>
<div>The paper argues that pharmaceutical companies should consider expanding three approaches to increasing access to lifesaving medicines for the poor and incentivizing R&D into diseases that primarily affect the global poor. First, the paper explores non-exclusive voluntary licensing partnerships between branded and generic companies as a strategy for distributing lifesaving drugs in the world’s poorest markets. Second, the paper considers various pricing strategies and argues that intra-country price discrimination – charging different prices for similar products targeted at different populations in the same market – can be an effective way of distributing lifesaving drugs to poor communities in countries that have both rich and poor populations. Finally, the paper encourages private firms to take further steps to share the fruits of their research with research collaboratives that seek to develop cures for diseases that primarily affect poor populations, and for which there is often insufficient research funding.</div>
<div><a href="http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/geojpovlp24&div=12&id=&page=">“<em>Expanding Access to Medicines and Promoting Innovation: A Practical Approach”,</em>Quentin A. Palfrey, Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy, Volume XXIV, Issue 2. Winter 2017.</a></div>
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<div>Quentin Palfrey is co-Director of the Global Access in Action projtag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22319712017-06-22T18:25:19-04:002017-06-22T18:25:19-04:00djonesExpanding Access to Medicines and Promoting Innovation: A Practical Approach<div><h3>
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<p>Cambridge, MA - In a newly-published paper in the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy, Quentin Palfrey highlights practical strategies for how pharmaceutical companies can have a profound impact on humanitarian outcomes without undermining profitability of their ventures. The paper, entitled Expanding Access to Medicines and Promoting Innovation: A Practical Approach, was produced in connection with the <a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/research/globalaccessinaction">Global Access in Action</a> project of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard.</p>
<p>“By adopting sensible approaches that have been used successfully by other companies, pharmaceutical firms can increase access to medicines, conduct critical research and development, and continue to be profitable,” Palfrey argues. “Under some circumstances, there are win-win approaches that can help the world’s poorest afford lifesaving medicines, allow philanthropic funders to have greater impact with limited budgets, and allow pharmaceutical programs to run corporate social responsibility programs that cost less – or even make a profit – while increasing impact,” says Palfrey.</p>
<p>The paper argues that pharmaceutical companies should consider expanding three approaches to increasing access to lifesaving medicines for the poor and incentivizing R&D into diseases that primarily affect the global poor. First, the paper explores non-exclusive voluntary licensing partnerships between branded and generic companies as a strategy for distributing lifesaving drugs in the world’s poorest markets. Second, the paper considers various pricing strategies and argues that intra-country price discrimination – charging different prices for similar products targeted at different populations in the same market – can be an effective way of distributing lifesaving drugs to poor communities in countries that have both rich and poor populations. Finally, the paper encourages private firms to take further steps to share the fruits of their research with research collaboratives that seek to develop cures for diseases that primarily affect poor populations, and for which there is often insufficient research funding.</p>
<p><a href="http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/geojpovlp24&div=12&id=&page=">“Expanding Access to Medicines and Promoting Innovation: A Practical Approach”,Quentin A. Palfrey, Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy, Volume XXIV, Issue 2. Winter 2017.</a></p>
<p><strong>About the Author</strong></p>
<p>Quentin Palfrey is co-Director of the Global Access in Action project at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, as well as the Executive Director of J-PAL North America, an anti-poverty research center at MIT. A lawyer by training, Palfrey served as Senior Advisor for Jobs & Competitiveness in the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy during President Obama’s first term, where he played a key role in the launch of the Patents for Humanity program and was the lead White House advisor on the America Invents Act, a major piece of patent reform legislation that was signed into law in 2011.</p>
<p><strong>About the Global Access in Action Project</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/research/globalaccessinaction">Global Access in Action</a>, a project of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, conducts action-oriented research into access to lifesaving medicines, and alternative incentives for the development of medical treatments for underserved populations. Improving access and promoting socially beneficial innovation are key strategies for combatting the communicable disease burden that disproportionately harms the world’s most vulnerable populations. Global Access in Action is led by Palfrey along with Professors William Fisher and Mark Wu of Harvard Law School.</p>
<p><strong>About the GAiA Brown Bag Series</strong></p>
<p>The GAiA brown bag series, "Conversations in Global Health, Innovation & the Digital World," is a collaboration with the Harvard Global Health Institute which will facilitate discussion among researchers, scholars, practitioners, and others engaged in the development of legal and policy frameworks that govern innovation and global commercialization of medicines.</p>
<p><strong>About the Berkman Klein Center</strong></p>
<p>The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is dedicated to exploring, understanding, and shaping the development of the digitally-networked environment. A diverse, interdisciplinary communitytag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22319722017-06-22T18:25:19-04:002017-06-22T18:25:19-04:00djonesSeeking a Project Coordinator to advance efforts on the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence at the Berkman Klein Center<div><h3>
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</p><p>Seeking a project coordinator to play a central role in building and enhancing research efforts in artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, and related technologies</p>
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<p>The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University seeks a project coordinator to perform diverse activities associated with <a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/research/ai">our work on artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, and related technologies</a>. They will join the Berkman Klein Center’s world-class community of scholars and digital architects, and work in close collaboration with Berkman Klein faculty, staff, and fellows to advance a range of interdisciplinary, cutting-edge research related to the study and development of Internet & Society.
Working alongside the Center’s growing team of project managers and project coordinators, the project coordinator will be tasked with: integrating the efforts of multiple team members, including editing written materials to establish common voice; coordinating research activities; communicating with external partners; monitoring overall timelines and outputs including project and grant deliverables, events, and grant reports; and doing research and writing, including outputs such as blog posts, grant proposals, memos, newsletters, and reports.
Additionally, the coordinator will interface with the administrative and communications teams on relevant aspects of the projects; help to organize events; maintain online project management tools; and oversee web presence. The project coordinator will help to guide the work of interns and research assistants.
Based on the fast-paced and changing needs of the Center, the project coordinator may be called upon for other tasks at short notice. Occasional evening and weekend work will be required. Travel opportunities may arise.
The right candidate will thrive in a committed, collaborative, and tight-knit community that encourages creativity, supports deep inquiry, values novel approaches to solving problems, strives for transparency, continually builds upon best-practices and lessons learned, and supports its community members’ independent and collective goals.
As with all Berkman Klein appointments, this is a June 30, 2018 term-limited position; continuation anticipated but contingent upon funding and business needs.</p>
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<div>College degree preferred or an equivalent of education plus relevant experience in an office environment.</div>
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<div>Solid writing, editing and proofreading skills along with strong written and oral communications skills. The flexibility to work independently and also within teams is critical. Knowledge of current Internet issues.
Bachelor’s degree preferred, advanced degree in fields such as social science, media studies, communications, data science, library and information science, anthropology (ethnography), or law is helpful. Experience doing substantive and organizational work for non-governmental or academic organizations strongly preferred. Prior research on Internet related issues is preferred. Progressive research skills required, including proficient knowledge of research tools, both Internet- and non-Internet based. Candidate must pay great attention to detail and be highly organized. Ability to work under tight deadlines a must. Solid writing, editing and proofreading skills required. Fluency in Internet research and publishing tools are highly desirable. Candidate would thrive in dynamic, entrepreneurial, self-motivated environment.</div>
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<p><strong>About the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Initiative</strong></p>
<h5>Artificial intelligence and complex algorithms, fueled by the collection of big data and deep learning systems, are quickly changing how we live and work, from the news stories we see, to the loans for which we qualify, to the jobs we perform. Because of this pervasive impact, it is imperative that AI research and development be shaped by a broad rtag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22319732017-06-22T18:25:20-04:002017-06-22T18:25:20-04:00candersenLower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy<div><h3> Subtitle </h3> <h4> with the author, Berkman Klein Center Faculty Associate Tressie McMillan Cottom </h4> <h3> Teaser </h3> <p> A former insider discloses the story behind for-profit schools to explain the exorbitant price tags, the questionable credentials, and the lose-lose options for Americans seeking a better life. </p> <h3> Event Date </h3><div> <span> <span>Jun</span> <span>23</span> <span>2017</span> <span>12:00pm</span> </span> <span> to </span> <span> <span>Jun</span> <span>23</span> <span>2017</span> <span>12:00pm</span> </span></div><div><div>Thumbnail Image: </div><div><div><img alt="" height="120" src="http://cyber.harvard.edu/sites/cyber.harvard.edu/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/thumbnails/25159221.jpg?itok=IUwYbKFz" width="80"></div></div></div> <div> <p><strong>Friday, June 23, 2017 at 12:00 pm</strong> <strong>Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University</strong> <strong>Harvard Law School campus Wasserstein Hall, Room 1010</strong> <strong><a href="http://cyber.harvard.edu/news/feed#RSVP">RSVP required to attend in person</a> Event will be live webcast at 12:00 pm</strong></p><div><div><div><p><img alt="" src="https://rampages.us/tressiemcmillancottom/wp-content/uploads/sites/7827/2015/08/0050503-15BM-F039.jpg"></p></div></div></div><div><p><em><strong>This event is being co-sponsored by the Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.</strong></em></p><p>More than two million students are enrolled in for-profit colleges, from the small family-run operations to the behemoths brandished on billboards, subway ads, and late-night commercials. These schools have been around just as long as their bucolic not-for-profit counterparts, yet shockingly little is known about why they have expanded so rapidly in recent years—during the so-called Wall Street era of for-profit colleges.</p><p>In Lower Ed Tressie McMillan Cottom—a bold and rising public scholar, herself once a recruiter at two for-profit colleges—expertly parses the fraught dynamics of this big-money industry to show precisely how it is part and parcel of the growing inequality plaguing the country today. McMillan Cottom discloses the shrewd recruitment and marketing strategies that these schools deploy and explains how, despite the well-documented predatory practices of some and the campus closings of others, ending for-profit colleges won’t end the vulnerabilities that made them the fastest growing sector of higher education at the turn of the twenty-first century. And she doesn’t stop there.</p><p>With sharp insight and deliberate acumen, McMillan Cottom delivers a comprehensive view of postsecondary for-profit education by illuminating the experiences of the everyday people behind the shareholder earnings, congressional battles, and student debt disasters. The relatable human stories in Lower Ed—from mothers struggling to pay for beauty school to working class guys seeking “good jobs” to accomplished professionals pursuing doctoral degrees—illustrate that the growth of for-profit colleges is inextricably linked to larger questions of race, gender, work, and the promise of opportunity in America.</p><p>Drawing on more than one hundred interviews with students, employees, executives, and activists, Lower Ed tells the story of the benefits, pitfalls, and real costs of a for-profit education. It is a story about broken social contracts; about education transforming from a public interest to a private gain; and about all Americans and the challenges we face in our divided, unequal society.</p><h3><strong>About Tressie</strong></h3><p>Tressie McMillan Cottom, PhD, is an assistant professor of sociology and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center. She is co-editor of two volumes on technological change, inequality and institutions: "Digital Sociologies" (2016, UK Bristol Policy Press) and "For-Profit Universities: The Shifting Landscape of Marketized Higher Education" (2017, Palgrave MacMillan). Her book "Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy" (2017, The New Press) has received national and international acclaim. Professor Cottom serves on dozens of academic and philanthropic boards and publishes widely on issues of inequality, work, higher education and technology. You can read more at <a href="http://www.tressiemc.com.%C2%A0">www.tressiemc.com. </a></p><h3><strong>Links</strong></h3><ul><li><a href="http://thenewpress.com/books/lower-ed"><em>Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy</em> (The New Press)</a><ul><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/books/review/lower-ed-tressie-mcmillan-cottom.html">NYT book review</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://tressiemc.com/">Tressie's website</a></li><li>Some background on the </li></ul></div></div></div>tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22319752017-06-22T18:25:20-04:002017-06-22T18:25:20-04:00candersenJonny Sun and Jonathan Zittrain in conversation<div><h3> Subtitle </h3> <h4> Author of the Book “everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too” by jomny sun (the aliebn) </h4> <h3> Teaser </h3> <p> Join Jonny Sun, the author of the popular Twitter account @jonnysun, for a conversation in celebration of his new book “everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too” by jomny sun (the aliebn). </p> <h3> Event Date </h3><div> <span> <span>Jun</span> <span>28</span> <span>2017</span> <span>12:00pm</span> </span> <span> to </span> <span> <span>Jun</span> <span>28</span> <span>2017</span> <span>12:00pm</span> </span></div><div><div>Thumbnail Image: </div><div><div><img alt="" height="120" src="http://cyber.harvard.edu/sites/cyber.harvard.edu/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/thumbnails/71gn5SUrXLL.jpg?itok=7QLfyQv2" width="80"></div></div></div> <div> <p><strong>Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at 12:00 pm</strong> <strong>Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University</strong> <strong>Harvard Law School campus Wasserstein Hall, Room 2012</strong> <strong><a href="http://cyber.harvard.edu/news/feed#RSVP">RSVP required to attend in person</a> Event will be live webcast at 12:00 pm</strong></p><div><div><div><p><img alt="" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/B1jLLqYCYfS._UX250_.jpg"></p></div></div></div><p>Join Jonny Sun, the author of the popular Twitter account @jonnysun, for a conversation in celebration of his new book “everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too” by jomny sun (the aliebn). This debut illustrated book is the unforgettable story of a lost, lonely, and confused alien finding friendship, acceptance, and love among the creatures of Earth. Constructed from many of Jonny’s re-contextualized tweets, the book is also a creative thesis on the narrative formats of social media, and a defense of the humanity-fulfilling aspects of social media born out of his experiences on Twitter. </p><h3><strong>About Jonny</strong></h3><p>Jonathan Sun is the author behind @jonnysun. When he isn’t tweeting, he is an architect, designer, engineer, artist, playwright and comedy writer. His work across multiple disciplines broadly addresses narratives of human experience. As a playwright, Jonathan’s work has been performed at the Yale School of Drama, and in Toronto at Hart House Theater and Factory Theater. As an artist and illustrator, his work has been exhibited at MIT, Yale, New Haven ArtSpace, and the University of Toronto. His work has been appeared on NPR, Buzzfeed, Playboy, GQ, and McSweeney’s. In his other life, he is a doctoral student at MIT and Berkman Klein fellow at Harvard.</p><h3><strong>About Jonathan</strong></h3><p><span>Jonathan Zittrain is the George Bemis </span><a href="http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/index.html?id=106">Professor of International Law</a><span> at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at the Harvard Law School Library, and co-founder of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, human computing, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education.</span></p><p><a></a></p><a></a><p><a></a><a> </a></p><p><a>Loading...</a></p> </div></div>tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22319762017-06-22T18:25:20-04:002017-06-22T18:25:20-04:00candersenPotential Uses of Miniature Spectrometers to Mitigate the Health Crisis in Developing Countries<div><h3>
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Harvard Global Health Institute
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<p>Global Access in Action: Conversations in Global Health, Innovation, & the Digital World</p>
<p><em><strong>This event is being sponsored by the Harvard Global Health Institute and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.</strong></em></p>
<p>Recent advances in several unrelated fields -- miniature mass spectrometry; artificial intelligence; and drug databases – may soon radically increase the ability of public-health workers to assess the chemical composition of pharmaceutical products rapidly, cheaply, and “in the field.” This potential, in turn, offers a variety of ways in which vaccines and medicines could be distributed more efficiently to poor patients in developing countries.</p>
<p>William Fisher, Harvard Law School Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Faculty Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, will discuss these possibilities and a pilot project in Namibia designed to test them.</p>
<h3><strong>Future Global Access in Action Brown Bags: June 26, July 24, July 31</strong></h3>
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<p>On May 15, 2017, the Berkman Klein Center in collaboration with the Media Lab hosted “AI Advance,” a convening of 120 community members, including faculty, researchers, students, and fellows, in order to reflect and engage on the societal challenges of AI and related technologies, forge collaborations, and start to design research programs.</p>
<p>A short summary can be found <a href="https://medium.com/berkman-klein-center/ai-advance-may-15-2017-2c36ee9d8dc8">here</a></p>
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<p>During AI Advance, the term “AI” was used in a broad sense to describe complex decision-making algorithms fueled by public and private datasets, rather than as a strict computer science term of art. Such technologies are widely employed today to guide corporate processes (such as insurance and financial risk analysis) and some public ones (such as in criminal sentencing in some jurisdictions); fully automated versions govern how news, updates, and advertising are presented to hundreds of millions of people via online social networks.</p>
<p>The event was meant as a community kickoff. The photos, videos, and summaries below capture some of the topics, concerns, and hopes expressed by attendees about the ethics and governance of AI. (The event adds to earlier <a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheons/2017/04/Ito">AI ethics conversations</a> led by <a href="https://www.media.mit.edu/people/joi/overview/">Joi Ito</a>, director of the MIT Media Lab, and <a href="https://www.media.mit.edu/people/irahwan/overview/">Iyad Rahwan</a>, associate professor at the Media Lab and an architect of <a href="http://moralmachine.mit.edu/">Moral Machine</a>, an interactive tool to explore moral questions that autonomous vehicle AI systems might need to make.) Not all members of the expanding AI community were able to attend. Still, the event offered a window into some of the relevant activities across the Berkman Klein Center and Media Lab that inform the joint AI initiative.</p>
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<p><a href="https://medium.com/berkman-klein-center/ai-advance-may-15-2017-2c36ee9d8dc8">Read our <em>Medium</em> post</a></p>
</div></div>tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22319782017-06-22T18:25:21-04:002017-06-22T18:25:21-04:00candersenCan We Talk?: An Open Forum on Disability, Technology, and Inclusion<div><h3>
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<p><strong>Tuesday, May 23 at 12:00 pm</strong> <strong>Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University</strong></p>
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</p><p><em><strong>This event was co-hosted by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and Harvard Law School Dean of Student's Office, <a href="http://hls.harvard.edu/dept/dos/accessibility/">Accessibility Services</a>.</strong></em></p>
<p><em>Can we talk?</em> The question (a favorite prompt of the late comedian Joan Rivers) evokes a feeling of being intimately and sometimes uncomfortably open, frank, and honest, both with others and ourselves. This event, a conversation between Prof. Elizabeth Ellcessor (Indiana University) and Prof. Meryl Alper (Northeastern University, Berkman Klein Center), points the question at the topic of disability, technology, and inclusion in public and private, and in digital and digitally-mediated spaces. Ryan Budish (Berkman Klein Center) and Dylan Mulvin (Microsoft Research) will serve as discussants.</p>
<p><em>Can</em> we talk?, with respect to different degrees of potential access (in its social, cultural, and political forms) that new media constrains and affords for individuals with disabilities. Can <em>we</em> talk?, with respect to who does and does not take part in the ongoing research, development, and critique of accessible communication technologies. Can we <em>talk</em>?, with respect to whether or not talking, or its corollary "voice," is an adequate metaphor for conversation, participation, and agency?</p>
<p>Alper and Ellcessor and will draw upon their recent respective books, <em><a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/giving-voice">Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality</a></em> (MIT Press, 2017) and <em><a href="https://nyupress.org/books/9781479853434/">Restricted Access: Media, Disability, and the Politics of Participation</a></em> (NYU Press, 2016). Both books will be available for purchase and signing.</p>
<p><em><strong>If you have any questions about arriving at or getting into this event, please do not hesitate to reach out to Carey Andersen at <a href="mailto:candersen@cyber.law.harvard.edu">candersen@cyber.law.harvard.edu</a> or at 617-495-7547. Wasserstein Hall, Room 3018 is fully accessible.</strong></em></p>
<p><strong>About Elizabeth</strong></p>
<p>Elizabeth (Liz) Ellcessor is an assistant professor in the <a href="http://mediaschool.indiana.edu/">Media School at Indiana University, Bloomington</a>.</p>
<p>Her research focuses on the ways that digital media technologies can both expand and limit people’s access to culture and civil society. Bringing together cultural studies, disability studies, and critical media industry studies, she uses a range of qualitative and historical methods. Focusing on those on the margins–particularly people with disabilities–exposes gaps in mainstream narratives about technological progress, user participation, and engagement with mediated culture.</p>
<p>Additionally, Liz has conducted research on performances of online identity, including social media celebrity, activism, and deception.</p>
<p>Liz teaches a range of courses, from introductory undergraduate courses in media studies to specialized doctoral seminars. Her courses aim to make the familiar strange, providing new details and perspectives with which students can reconsider taken for granted elements of their digitally mediated lives. Additionally, she uses strategies of universal design to make courses accessible for as many students as possible, incorporating captioned content, flexible assignment structures and timelines, and multiple forms of student participation.</p>
<p>Liz is a founding co-chair of the <a href="http://www.cmstudies.org/?page=groups_medscitech">Media, Science, and Technology Studies</a> scholarly interest group of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.</p>
<p><strong>About Meryl</strong></p>
<p>Meryl Alper is an <a href="http://www.northeastern.edu/camd/commstudies/people/meryl-alper/">Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University</a> and a <a href="https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/malper">Faculty Associate with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University</a>. Prior to joining the faculty at Northeastern,tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22319802017-06-22T18:25:21-04:002017-06-22T18:25:21-04:00candersenHow to regulate the future of finance?<div><h3>
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<p><strong>Tuesday, May 16 at 12:00 pm</strong> <strong>Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University</strong></p>
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</p><p>US market regulators offer perspectives on the benefits and risks of the financial technology revolution from distributed ledgers, p2p marketplaces and the use of AI in the financial system. Moderated by Patrick Murck -- Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society -- the panel discusses the challenge of regulating through disruption and how federal agencies can modernize their approach to keep up with innovation.</p>
<p><strong>Patrick Murck </strong>is a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.</p>
<p><strong>John Schindler</strong> is an Economist for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.</p>
<p><strong>Jeffrey Bandman </strong>is the FinTech Advisor at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. </p>
<p><strong>Valerie A. Szczepanik</strong> is an Assistant Director in the Asset Management Unit of the Division of Enforcement at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). </p>
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</p><p><a href="http://wilkins.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheons/2017-05-16_fintech">Download original audio and video from this event</a>.</p>
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<h5>Photo credit to <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/zcopley/">Zach Copley</a></h5>
</div></div>tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22319812017-06-22T18:25:21-04:002017-06-22T18:25:21-04:00candersenTwitter and Tear Gas with Zeynep Tufekci<div><h3>
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The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest </h4>
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Join us for this firsthand account and incisive analysis of modern protest, revealing internet-fueled social movements’ greatest strengths and frequent challenges. </p>
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<p><strong>Tuesday, May 9, 2017 at 12:00 pm</strong> <strong>Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University</strong></p>
<p>Berkman Klein Faculty Associate, Zeynep Tufekci joins us to talk about her new book, Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest.</p>
<p>To understand a thwarted Turkish coup, an anti–Wall Street encampment, and a packed Tahrir Square, we must first comprehend the power and the weaknesses of using new technologies to mobilize large numbers of people. An incisive observer, writer, and participant in today’s social movements, Zeynep Tufekci explains in this accessible and compelling book the nuanced trajectories of modern protests—how they form, how they operate differently from past protests, and why they have difficulty persisting in their long-term quests for change.</p>
<p>Tufekci speaks from direct experience, combining on-the-ground interviews with insightful analysis. She describes how the internet helped the Zapatista uprisings in Mexico, the necessity of remote Twitter users to organize medical supplies during Arab Spring, the refusal to use bullhorns in the Occupy Movement that started in New York, and the empowering effect of tear gas in Istanbul’s Gezi Park. These details from life inside social movements complete a moving investigation of authority, technology, and culture—and offer essential insights into the future of governance.</p>
<p><strong>About Zeynep</strong></p>
<p>Zeynep Tufekci is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill at the School of Information and Library Science with an affiliate appointment in the Department of Sociology. She is also currently also a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. She was previously an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her research revolves around the interaction between technology and social, cultural and political dynamics. She is particularly interested in collective action and social movements, complex systems, surveillance, privacy, and sociality.</p>
<p><strong>Links</strong></p>
<ul><li><a href="http://technosociology.org/">Zeynep's blog</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/zeynep">@zeynep on Twitter</a></li>
</ul><p><a href="http://wilkins.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheons/2017-05-09_tufecki/">Download original audio and video from this event</a>.</p>
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</div></div>tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22319832017-06-22T18:25:22-04:002017-06-22T18:25:22-04:00candersenThe Quantified Worker<div><h3>
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To apply to Futurecorp, please submit your resume, list of references, and a genetic profile. Once hired, we'll make an appointment for you to receive a sub-dermal tracking microchip. </p>
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<p><strong>Tuesday, May 2, 2017 at 12:00 pm</strong> <strong>Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University</strong></p>
<p>What are the rights of the worker in a society that seems to privilege technological innovation over equality and privacy?<strong> </strong>How does the law protect worker privacy and dignity given technological advancements that allow for greater surveillance of workers? What can we expect for the future of work; should privacy be treated as merely an economic good that could be exchanged for the benefit of employment?</p>
<p><strong>About Ifeoma</strong></p>
<p>I am currently a Fellow at the <a href="https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/">Berkman Klein Center at Harvard</a> for the 2016-2017 year. I will be an Assistant Professor at <a href="https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/">Cornell University’s Industrial and Labor Relations School (ILR)</a>, (with affiliations in Sociology and Law) starting July, 2017.</p>
<p>I hold a Ph.D. from the Sociology Department of<a href="http://www.columbia.edu/"> Columbia University</a> in the City of New York (emphasis on Organizational Theory and Law and Society). My doctoral research on reentry was supported by a grant from the <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/awards/about.jsp">National Science Foundation (NSF)</a>.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2264126">I am interested in how the law and private firms respond to job applicants or employees perceived as “risky.”</a> </strong>I look at the legal parameters for the assessment of such risk and also the organizational behavior in pursuit of risk reduction by private firms. I examine the sociological processes in regards to how such risk is constructed and the discursive ways such risk assessment is deployed in the maintenance of inequality. I also examine ethical issues arising from how firms off-set risk to employees.</p>
<p>My dissertation was an ethnography of a reentry organization that catered to the formerly incarcerated. In the sum of my published research, I’ve focused on three populations: 1) the formerly incarcerated, 2) carriers of genetic disease, and, 3) workers with perceived unhealthy lifestyles (obesity, smoking, etc.). Thus, my research is at the intersection of organizational theory, management/business law, privacy, health law, and antidiscrimination law.</p>
<p>My most recent article, <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2746211">Limitless Worker Surveillance</a>, with Kate Crawford and Jason Schultz is forthcoming from the <a href="http://www.californialawreview.org/submissions-articles-essays/">California Law Review</a>. The Article has been downloaded more than 2,000 times on SSRN and was <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/27/opinion/sunday/protecting-employees-health-data.html?_r=0">endorsed by the NYTimes Editorial Board.</a> In addition to the <em>California Law Review</em>, my articles have been published in the Harvard Business Review, <em>the Fordham Law Review</em>, the <em>Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review</em>, the <em>Ohio State Law Review</em>, and in the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, among others.</p>
<p>I have <a href="http://www.cambridge.org/"> a book contract with Cambridge University Press</a> for a book (“The Quantified Worker,” forthcoming 2018) that will examine the role of technology in the workplace and its effects on management practices as moderated by employment and privacy laws.</p>
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</div></div>tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22355372017-06-26T12:03:47-04:002017-06-26T12:03:47-04:00candersenNext Gen Podcast Distribution Protocols:<div><h3>
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Innovation and Governance in Open Development Initiatives </h4>
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The goals of the symposium include furthering cooperation among various players in the world of podcast creation and distribution and consideration of recommendations on standards, enhancements, extensions, and other methods to support the growth of podcasting as an open and inclusive medium. </p>
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<p><strong>Thursday, May 11, 2017, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm</strong> <strong>Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University</strong> <strong>Harvard Law School campus, Wasserstein Hall
1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Milstein East (room 2036, second floor)</strong> <strong>Registration is limited. <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScuQKW9svdHjTuMUntpqQlysaf228QhD4Mw5YN56DQ98VJQuw/viewform?c=0&w=1&usp=send_form">Please sign up here</a>.</strong></p>
<p> <em><strong>Presented by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at the Columbia Journalism School, in Collaboration with the syndicated.media Open Working Group.</strong></em></p>
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On May 11, 2017, the <strong>Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society</strong> and <strong>Tow Center for Digital Journalism</strong> will host and facilitate a symposium, in collaboration with the <strong>syndicated.media</strong> open working group, to address the process of developing standards that support the distribution of syndicated audio content. The event will look back at the evolution of the RSS protocol and look forward at the need for new technical infrastructure to support an expanding podcast distribution landscape. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in both higher-level policy discussions and technical deep-dives throughout the course of this one-day event.</p>
<p>The goals of the symposium include furthering cooperation among various players in the world of podcast creation and distribution and consideration of recommendations on standards, enhancements, extensions, and other methods to support the growth of podcasting as an open and inclusive medium. It will bring together academic, non-profit, and commercial constituencies to address, among other things:</p>
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<p>Registration is limited; sign up <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScuQKW9svdHjTuMUntpqQlysaf228QhD4Mw5YN56DQ98VJQuw/viewform?c=0&w=1&usp=send_form">here</a>.</p>
<p>The symposium will be followed by a separate, two-day “<a href="https://www.audioforgood.com/">Audio for Good</a>” event, co-hosted by PRX, RadioPublic, and the HBS Digital Initiative. Applications to participate can be submitted <a href="https://goo.gl/mCIMcW">here</a>.</p>
<h3> <strong>About the Hosts</strong></h3>
<p>The <strong>Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society</strong> is a research center based at Harvard University. The Center’s Center's mission is to explore and understand cyberspace; to study its development, dynamics, norms, and standards; and to assess the need or lack thereof for laws and sanctions. Berkman Klein is a research center, premised on the observation that what it seeks to learn is not already recorded. The Center’s method is to build out into cyberspace, record data, self-study, and share. Its mode is entrepreneurial nonprofit.</p>
<p>The <strong>Tow Center for Digital Journalism</strong>, established in 2010, provides journalists with the skills and knowledge to lead the future of digital journalism and serves as a research and development center for the profession as a whole. Operating as an institute within Columbia University’s Graduate Schtag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22362612017-06-27T13:03:08-04:002017-06-27T13:03:08-04:00djonesAI and the Law: Setting the Stage<div><h3>
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</p><p>We as a society are only beginning to understand the ethical, legal, and regulatory challenges associated with AI, as well as develop appropriate governance models and responses.</p>
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<p><a href="https://medium.com/@ugasser/ai-and-the-law-setting-the-stage-48516fda1b11">Urs Gasser shares some initial thoughts</a> regarding the role of law in the age of AI:</p>
<blockquote><p>While there is reasonable hope that superhuman killer robots won’t catch us anytime soon, narrower types of AI-based technologies have started changing our daily lives: AI applications are rolled out at an accelerated pace in schools, homes, and hospitals, with digital leaders such as high tech, telecom, and financial services among the early adopters. AI promises enormous benefits for the social good and can improve human well-being, safety, and productivity, as anecdotal evidence suggests. But it also poses significant risks for workers, developers, firms, and governments alike, and we as a society are only beginning to understand the ethical, legal, and regulatory challenges associated with AI, as well as develop appropriate governance models and responses.</p>
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<p><a href="https://medium.com/@ugasser/ai-and-the-law-setting-the-stage-48516fda1b11">Read Urs Gasser's <em>Medium</em> post</a></p>
</div></div>tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22362622017-06-27T13:03:09-04:002017-06-27T13:03:09-04:00djonesGlobal AI Dialogue Series<div><h3>
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A platform for researchers, officials, and executives with strategic, policy, business or technology responsibilities to share, shape, and develop insights into AI from an ethics and governance perspective. </h2>
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<h3>Artificial Intelligence (AI) transforms the way we live and work, shaping our ability to understand and maximize the social and economic opportunities enabled by technology on a global scale.</h3>
<h2><strong>Context</strong></h2>
<p>Artificial Intelligence has evolved from an academic research project to a force that is shaping and transforming industries, societies, and the lives of individuals with unprecedented opportunities for development and growth. But the speed of AI development and the uncertainty that accompanies its uses also provoke questions related to fundamental values such as autonomy, agency, and accountability. In parallel, the knowledge gap between the small group of AI experts and the large population affected by these “black box” technologies is widening and creating misconceptions regarding AI that might hinder its adoption</p>
<h2><strong>Mission </strong></h2>
<p>The Berkman Klein Center, in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab and other collaborators, is bringing together a global community to provide leadership, define the agenda, and drive change in emerging areas of AI ethics and governance research and practice. The research agenda is updated and shared regularly and includes themes from related initiatives, projects, etc.</p>
<p>As part of the larger initiative, the <strong>Global AI Dialogue Series </strong>is a platform for researchers, officials, and executives with strategic, policy, business or technology responsibilities to share, shape, and develop insights into AI from an ethics and governance perspective. Designed as a global, open, inclusive, and evidence-based dialogue aimed at identifying opportunities as well as challenges related to AI that need to be addressed from an international perspective, the Series seeks to inform decision-makers about the rapidly evolving global AI agenda and bolster the use of AI for the societal good. In parallel, the Series builds an institutional knowledge base, fostering human capacity, and strengthening interfaces with industry and policy-makers at an international scale.</p>
<h2><strong>Vision </strong></h2>
<p>Leveraging insights from dealing with disruptive technologies, the Global AI Dialogue Series will <strong>identify core issues </strong>that need to be addressed from a global perspective in order to harness the full benefits of AI while also addressing its challenges. It will explore the suitability of <strong>ethics and governance models </strong>from the Internet realm and other areas when applied to AI. The knowledge created through a series of working meetings in Asia, Europe, and the US and relevant research input by Berkman Klein will result in a <strong>roadmap </strong>that informs decision- makers in the private and public sectors, and promotes the use of AI technology for the social good on a global scale.</p>
<p>Initial <strong>questions for exploration</strong> in the working meetings include:</p>
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<p><strong>Shaping the Agenda:</strong> The Global AI Dialogue Series is a key in providing input and accessing the insights generated by our activities. The members will recommend areas to be explored, case studies to be conducted, new pilot projects to be ignited, etc</p>
<p><strong>Research and Insight: </strong>The members will help shaping the research agenda into social, economic and technological issues that are transforming the AI landscape, and will develop a deeper understanding of how AI is influencing their sectors.</p>
<p><strong>Interaction and Impact: </strong>Identifying relevant global and regional issues through meetings with government, industry, academia and non-profit organizations. Engaging with renowned experts enables personal and organizational learning, drives the impact and stimulates change at the global, regional and industry levels.</p>
<h2><strong>Agenda</strong></h2>
<p>The community continues to shape the activities essential to the long- term health and stability of AI enabled economies and societies. In this context, the initial priority areas to be address include the following:</p>
<p><strong>Policy Updates:</strong> Explore and inform frtag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22367982017-06-28T14:03:15-04:002017-06-28T14:03:15-04:00davidw<div><p>I read all of C.S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower series when I was in high school.
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I’m on a week of vacation — i.e., a nicer place to work — and have been re-reading them.
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Why isn’t everyone re-reading them? They’re wonderful. Most of the seafaring descriptions are opaque to me, but it doesn’t matter. The stories are character-based and Forester is great at expressing personality succinctly, as well as taking us deep into Hornblower’s character over the course of the books. Besides, all the talk of binneys ’round the blaggard binge don’t get in the way of understanding the action
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Some prefer Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin “Master and Commander” series. They are wrong. I believe the Internet when it says O’Brian’s battles are more realistic because they’re based on actual events. I don’t care. I do care, however, about O’Brian’s clumsy construction of his main characters. I can sense the author trying to inflate them into three dimensions. Then they’re given implausible roles and actions.
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Of course you may disagree with me entirely about that. But here’s the killer for me: O’Brian relies on long pages of back-and-forth dialogue…while not telling you who’s talking. I don’t like having to count back by twos to find the original speaker. All I need is an occasional, “‘Me, neither,’ said Jack.” Is that asking too much?
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Anyway, take a look at <em>Hornblower and the Atropos</em> to see if you’re going to like the series. That begins with a few chapters of Hornblower arranging the logistics for the flotilla portion of Lord Nelson’s funeral. If you find yourself as engrossed in chapters about logistics as I did, you’re probably hooked forever.</p>
<p>The post <a href="http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2017/06/28/re-reading-hornblower/">Re-reading Hornblower</a> appeared first on <a href="http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger">Joho the Blog</a>.</p></div>Re-reading Hornblower<div><p>I read all of C.S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower series when I was in high school. I’m on a week of vacation — i.e., a nicer place to work — and have been re-reading them. Why isn’t everyone re-reading them? They’re wonderful. Most of the seafaring descriptions are opaque to me, but it doesn’t matter. The […]</p>
<p>The post <a href="http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2017/06/28/re-reading-hornblower/">Re-reading Hornblower</a> appeared first on <a href="http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger">Joho the Blog</a>.</p></div>tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22367992017-06-28T14:03:15-04:002017-06-28T14:03:15-04:00candersenWeapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy<div><h3>
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<p><strong>Tuesday, July 11, 2017 at 12:00 pm</strong> <strong>Microsoft Research's Social Media Collective
New England Research and Development Center
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<p>Microsoft Research's Social Media Collective and Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society welcome author Cathy O'Neil to NERD. O'Neil will read from her award-winning book, <em>Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy</em> (2016). The reading will be followed by an informal mixer for MSR, NERD, Garage and BKC interns.</p>
<p>Please join us for a timely discussion of the role of data science in public life. All are welcome at this free event open to the public!</p>
<p><strong>About Cathy O'Neil</strong></p>
<p>Cathy O’Neil earned a Ph.D. in math from Harvard, was a postdoc at the MIT math department, and a professor at Barnard College where she published a number of research papers in arithmetic algebraic geometry. She then switched over to the private sector, working as a quant for the hedge fund D.E. Shaw in the middle of the credit crisis, and then for RiskMetrics, a risk software company that assesses risk for the holdings of hedge funds and banks. She left finance in 2011 and started working as a data scientist in the New York start-up scene, building models that predicted people’s purchases and clicks. She wrote <em>Doing Data Science</em> in 2013 and launched the Lede Program in Data Journalism at Columbia in 2014. She is a <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/view/contributors/ATFPV0aLyJM/catherine-h-oneil">regular contributor</a> to Bloomberg View and wrote the book <em>Weapons of Math Destruction: how big data increases inequality and threatens democracy. </em>She recently founded <a href="http://www.oneilrisk.com/">ORCAA</a>, an algorithmic auditing company.</p>
<p><strong>About Microsoft Research's Social Media Collective</strong></p>
<p>Over the last decade, social media has become a vital tool for our engagement with the people who matter to us, the work we do, and with the wider public world. From email to Facebook, mobile phones to Twitter, people now use a vast array of social technologies as part of their everyday lives and practices. Our primary purpose is to provide a rich contextual understanding of the social and cultural dynamics that underpin these social media technologies.</p>
<p>Our research collective brings together social scientists and humanists from anthropology, communication, economics, information, law, media studies, women’s studies, science & technology studies, and sociology. Through a variety of methodological and theoretical lenses, we provide insight into how social media is reconfiguring sociality, labor, ethics, and the public realm. Much of our work centers on emergent Web 2.0 technologies, including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc. but we also look to situate these new forms in the longer history of information and communication.</p>
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</div></div>tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22373342017-06-29T15:03:21-04:002017-06-29T15:03:21-04:00djonesThe Shifting Landscape of Global Internet Censorship<div><h3>
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An Uptake in Communications Encryption Is Tempered by Increasing Pressure on Major Platform Providers; Governments Expand Content Restriction Tactics </h2>
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</p><p>This study, conducted by the Internet Monitor project, documents the practice of Internet censorship around the world through empirical testing in 45 countries of the availability of 2,046 of the world’s most-trafficked and influential websites, plus additional country-specific websites. The study finds evidence of filtering in 26 countries across four broad content themes: political, social, topics related to conflict and security, and Internet tools (a term that includes censorship circumvention tools as well as social media platforms). The majority of countries that censor content do so across all four themes, although the depth of the filtering varies.</p>
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<a href="http://cyber.harvard.edu/people/rwestphal">Ryan Morrison-Westphal</a> </li>
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<a href="http://cyber.harvard.edu/people/hnoman">Helmi Noman</a> </li>
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<a href="http://cyber.harvard.edu/people/ctilton">Casey Tilton</a> </li>
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<p>This study, conducted by the Internet Monitor project at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, documents the practice of Internet censorship around the world through empirical testing in 45 countries of the availability of 2,046 of the world’s most-trafficked and influential websites, plus additional country-specific websites. The study finds evidence of filtering in 26 countries across four broad content themes: political, social, topics related to conflict and security, and Internet tools (a term that includes censorship circumvention tools as well as social media platforms). The majority of countries that censor content do so across all four themes, although the depth of the filtering varies.</p>
<p>The study confirms that 40 percent of these 2,046 websites can only be reached by an encrypted connection. While some sites can be reached by either HTTP or HTTPS, total encrypted traffic to the 2,046 sites has more than doubled to 31 percent in 2017 from 13 percent in 2015. Meanwhile, and partly in response to the protections afforded by encryption, activists in particular and web users in general around the world are increasingly relying on major platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Medium, and Wikipedia.</p>
<p>These trends have created challenges for state Internet censors operating filters at national network levels. When an entire website is encrypted, it is not easy to detect and selectively block a particular article on Wikipedia or a particular dissident’s social media profile. Unless a platform agrees to remove content, a country must either block the whole site, or allow everything through. The study finds that the increasing adoption of HTTPS has reduced the blocking of communications in some cases and has led to broader crackdowns in others.</p>
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Authored by </span></div>tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22377812017-06-30T11:03:48-04:002017-06-30T11:03:48-04:00davidw<div><p>If we listen to what Donald Trump is telling us in plain and strong language, we should conclude that he is suffering from hallucinations — hallucinations of women bleeding.
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Twice now he has claimed that blood was pouring out of women he feels were antagonistic of him: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/08/07/trump-says-foxs-megyn-kelly-had-blood-coming-out-of-her-wherever/">Megyn Kelly</a> and Mika Brzezinski. We all saw that Kelly in fact was not bleeding. Brzezinski flat out <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trump-is-not-well/2017/06/30/97759ee0-5d0f-11e7-9b7d-14576dc0f39d_story.html">denies</a> her face was bleeding and says there are photos to prove it.
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Then there’s this new <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/joe-scarborough-trump-trashed-mika-brzezinski-to-20-congressmen-at-white-house-event/article/2627540">story</a> about Trump telling twenty Congressmen about seeing blood coming out of Brzezinski’s eyes and ears on another occasion.
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These comments are so weird that the best explanation the media has put forward is that they are metaphors that illuminate Trump’s dark, dark reaction to being challenged by strong women.
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But I think we should seriously consider that he was not talking metaphorically. He saw blood coming out of their faces.
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At least the question needs to be asked of him. And then we need to re-read the 25th Amendment.</p>
<p>The post <a href="http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2017/06/30/hallucinating-not-lying/">Hallucinating, not lying?</a> appeared first on <a href="http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger">Joho the Blog</a>.</p></div>Hallucinating, not lying?<div><p>If we listen to what Donald Trump is telling us in plain and strong language, we should conclude that he is suffering from hallucinations — hallucinations of women bleeding. Twice now he has claimed that blood was pouring out of women he feels were antagonistic of him: Megyn Kelly and Mika Brzezinski. We all saw […]</p>
<p>The post <a href="http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2017/06/30/hallucinating-not-lying/">Hallucinating, not lying?</a> appeared first on <a href="http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger">Joho the Blog</a>.</p></div>tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22390502017-07-03T22:12:32-04:002017-07-03T22:12:32-04:00Doc Searls<div><p><img alt="doc013b" height="image" src="http://blogs.harvard.edu/vrm/files/2017/07/doc013b.jpg" width="80%"></p><p>What we have today with giant silos dominating everything is what Hugh Macleod and I many years ago together called an <em>egology</em>. Hugh illustrated one this way:</p><p><img alt="doc012cropped" height="image" src="http://blogs.harvard.edu/vrm/files/2017/07/doc012cropped.jpg" width="60%"></p><p>Here’s what’s going to happen when the whole <a href="https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2017/06/21/crypto/">cryptocurrency</a> / <a href="https://thefinanser.com/2017/06/crazy-world-crypto-currencies-icos.html/">ICO</a> / <a href="http://tokenfactory.io/smart-beta/">token</a> / <a href="https://www.coinbase.com/legal/securities-law-framework.pdf">blockchain</a> / <a href="https://www.hyperledger.org/">distributed ledger</a> / <a href="https://www.nickgrossman.is/2017/my-talk-from-the-next-web-conference-purpose-mission-strategy/">distributed-everything</a> finishes going down:<strong> <em>We will each have far more command of what and how we pay for everything, how we remember what we paid, how we run our personal and social lives online, and how we control our relationships in an open marketplace no longer dominated by giant corporate silos and fiat currencies.</em></strong></p><p>That’s my bet, anyway. Because I see the pendulum swinging away from platforms, and up the stack to new protocols. <a href="http://www.usv.com/blog/fat-protocols">Union Square Ventures illustrates it this way</a>:</p><p><img alt="web-blockchain" height="432" src="http://blogs.harvard.edu/vrm/files/2017/07/web-blockchain-1024x654.png" width="676"></p><p>That was a few months back. I was at a talk Nick Grossman gave a few days ago, and I believe he didn’t have Blockchain above the second image. But you get the point: thick protocols, thin applications.</p><p>I see this happening with <a href="https://ipfs.io/">IPFS</a>, with the Bitcoin and Etherium protocols, with <a href="https://www.jlinclabs.com/protocol/">JLINC</a> and other efforts.</p><p>The res</p><p> </p></div>Paying for media with #customertechWhat we have today with giant silos dominating everything is what Hugh Macleod and I many years ago together called an egology. Hugh illustrated one this way: Here’s what’s going to happen when the whole cryptocurrency / ICO / token / blockchain / distributed ledger / distributed-everything finishes going down: We will each have far more command of […]tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22399352017-07-05T16:03:16-04:002017-07-05T16:03:16-04:00djonesGlobal Data Flows and the Implications for Health Access in Developing Countries<div><h3>
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42 Church St. Cambridge, MA 02138 <a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/global-data-flows-implications-for-health-access-in-developing-countries-tickets-35728169918?aff=erelpanelorg">RSVP required</a></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Global Access in Action: Conversations in Global Health, Innovation, & the Digital World</strong></p>
<p>This event is being sponsored by the Harvard Global Health Institute and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.</p>
<p>Governments around the world are increasingly regulating the flow of cross-border data on the basis of privacy, security, and other public interest concerns. These policies take on a variety of forms, such as data localization requirements and obligations for service providers to make data available to law enforcement authorities under certain circumstances. What types of policies concerning cross-border data flows should developing countries be adopting and advocating to safeguard their interests, particularly with respect to health care? Join us for an open discussion.</p>
<p><strong>About Global Access in Action</strong>
Global Access in Action, a project of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, conducts action-oriented research into access to lifesaving medicines, and alternative incentives for the development of medical treatments for underserved populations. Improving access and promoting socially beneficial innovation are key strategies for combatting the communicable disease burden that disproportionately harms the world’s most vulnerable populations.</p>
<p><strong>About the GAiA Brown Bag Series</strong>
The GAiA brown bag series, "Conversations in Global Health, Innovation & the Digital World," is a collaboration with the Harvard Global Health Institute to facilitate discussion among researchers, scholars, practitioners, and others engaged in the development of legal and policy frameworks that govern innovation and global commercialization of medicines. The next brown bag event will be July 31st, and will feature GAiA Affiliate John Stubbs discussing <a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2017/07/Stubbs">Trump's America First Trade Agenda: What It Means for Access to Medicines</a>.</p>
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<div><div>Related Content: </div><div><div>Global Access in Action</div></div></div></div>tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22399362017-07-05T16:03:16-04:002017-07-05T16:03:16-04:00djonesTrump's ‘America First’ Trade Agenda: What It Means for Access to Medicines<div><h3>
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42 Church St. Cambridge, MA 02138 <a href="http://gaiastubbs.eventbrite.com">RSVP Required</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>About Global Access in Action</strong>
Global Access in Action, a project of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, conducts action-oriented research into access to lifesaving medicines, and alternative incentives for the development of medical treatments for underserved populations. Improving access and promoting socially beneficial innovation are key strategies for combatting the communicable disease burden that disproportionately harms the world’s most vulnerable populations.</p>
<p><strong>About the GAiA Brown Bag Series</strong>
The GAiA brown bag series, "Conversations in Global Health, Innovation & the Digital World," is a collaboration with the Harvard Global Health Institute to facilitate discussion among researchers, scholars, practitioners, and others engaged in the development of legal and policy frameworks that govern innovation and global commercialization of medicines.</p>
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<div><div>Related Content: </div><div><div>Global Access in Action</div></div></div></div>tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22399662017-07-05T17:03:54-04:002017-07-05T17:03:54-04:00zephoria<div><div><h3><em>We need: Recognition, Repentance, Respect, and Reparation.</em></h3>
<p>To be honest, what surprises me most about the current conversation about the inhospitable nature of tech for women is that people are surprised. To say that discrimination, harassment, and sexual innuendos are an open secret is an understatement. I don’t know a woman in tech who doesn’t have war stories. Yet, for whatever reason, we are now in a moment where people are paying attention. And for that, I am grateful.</p>
<p>Like many women in tech, I’ve developed strategies for coping. I’ve had to in order to stay in the field. I’ve tried to be “one of the guys,” pretending to blend into the background as sexist speech was jockeyed about in the hopes that I could just fit in. I’ve tried to be the kid sister, the freaky weirdo, the asexual geek, etc. I’ve even tried to use my sexuality to my advantage in the hopes that maybe I could recover some of the lost opportunity that I faced by being a woman. It took me years to realize that none of these strategies would make me feel like I belonged. Many even made me feel worse.</p>
<p>For years, I included Ani DiFranco lyrics in every snippet of code I wrote, as well as my signature. I’ve maintained a lyrics site since I was 18 because her words give me strength for coping with the onslaught of commentary and gross behavior. <a href="http://www.danah.org/ani/First/TalkToMeNow.html">“Self-preservation is a full-time occupation.” </a>I can’t tell you how often I’ve sat in a car during a conference or after a meeting singing along off-key at full volume with tears streaming down my face, just trying to keep my head together.</p>
<p>What’s at stake is not about a few bad actors. There’s also a range of behaviors getting lumped together, resulting in folks asking if inescapable sexual overtures are really that bad compared to assault. That’s an unproductive conversation because the fundamental problem is the normalization of atrocious behavior that makes room for a wide range of inappropriate actions. Fundamentally, the problem with systemic sexism is that it’s not the individual people who are the problem. It’s the culture. And navigating the culture is exhausting and disheartening. It’s the collection of particles of sand that quickly becomes a mountain that threatens to bury you.</p>
<p>It’s having to constantly stomach sexist comments with a smile, having to work twice as hard to be heard in a meeting, having to respond to people who ask if you’re on the panel because they needed a woman. It’s about going to conferences where deals are made in the sauna but being told that you have to go to the sauna with “the wives” (a pejoratively constructed use of the word). It’s about people assuming you’re sleeping with whoever said something nice about you. It’s being told “you’re kinda smart for a chick” when you volunteer to help a founder. It’s knowing that you’ll receive sexualized threats for commenting on certain topics as a blogger. It’s giving a talk at a conference and <a href="http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/11/24/spectacle_at_we.html">being objectified by the audience</a>. It’s building whisper campaigns among women to indicate which guys to avoid. It’s using Dodgeball/Foursquare to know which parties not to attend based on who has checked in. It’s losing friends because you won’t work with a founder who you watched molest a woman at a party (and then watching Justin Timberlake portray that founder’s behavior as entertainment).</p>
<p>Lots of people in tech have said completely inappropriate things to women. I also recognize that many of those guys are trying to fit into the sexist norms of tech too, trying to replicate the culture that they see around them because they too are struggling for status. But that’s the problem. Once guys receive power and status within the sector, they don’t drop their inappropriate language. They don’t change their behavior or call out others on how insidious it is. They let the same dynamics fester as though it’s just part of the hazing ritual.</p>
<p>For women who succeed in tech, the barrage of sexism remains. It just changes shape as we get older.</p>
<p>On Friday night, after reading <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/30/technology/women-entrepreneurs-speak-out-sexual-harassment.html">the NYTimes article on tech industry harassment</a>, I was deeply sad. Not because the stories were shocking — frankly, those incidents are minor compared to some of what I’ve seen. I was upset because stories like this typically polarize and prompt efforts to focus on individuals rather than the culture. There’s an assumption that these are one-off incidents. They’re not.</p>
<p>I appreciate that Dave and Chris owned up to their role in contributing to a hostile culture. I know that it’s painful to hear that something you said or did hurt someone else when you didn’t intend that to be the case. I hope that they’re going through a tremendous amount of soul-searching and self-reflection. I appreciate Chris’ willingness to <a href="https://medium.com/@sacca/i-have-more-work-to-do-c775c5d56ca1">take to Medium</a> to effectively say “I screwed up.” Ideally, they will both come out of this willing to make amends and right their wrongs.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, most people don’t actually respond productively when they’re called out. Shaming can often backfire.</p>
<p>One of the reasons that most people don’t speak up is that it’s far more common for guys who are called out on their misdeeds to respond the way that Marc Canter appeared to do, by justifying his behavior and demonizing the woman who accused him of sexualizing her. Given my own experiences with his sexist commentary, I decided to tweet out in solidarity by publicly sharing how he repeatedly asked me for a threesome with his wife early on in my career. At the time, I was young and I was genuinely scared of him; I spent a lot of time and emotional energy avoiding him, and struggled with how to navigate him at various conferences. I wasn’t the only one who faced his lewd comments, often framed as being sex-positive even when they were an abuse of power. My guess is that Marc has no idea how many women he’s made feel uncomfortable, ashamed, and scared. The question is whether or not he will admit that to himself, let alone to others.</p>
<p>I’m not interested in calling people out for sadistic pleasure. I want to see the change that most women in tech long for. At its core, the tech industry is idealistic and dreamy, imagining innovations that could change the world. Yet, when it comes to self-reflexivity, tech is just as regressive as many other male-dominated sectors. Still, I fully admit that I hold it to a higher standard in no small part because of the widespread commitment in tech to change the world for the better, however flawed that fantastical idealism is.</p>
<p>Given this, what I want from men in tech boils down to four Rs: Recognition. Repentance. Respect. Reparation.</p>
<p><strong>Recognition.</strong> I want to see everyone — men and women — recognize how contributing to a culture of sexism takes us down an unhealthy path, not only making tech inhospitable for women but also undermining the quality of innovation and enabling the creation of tech that does societal harm. I want men in particular to reflect on how the small things that they do and say that they self-narrate as part of the game can do real and lasting harm, regardless of what they intended or what status level they have within the sector. I want those who witness the misdeeds of others to understand that they’re contributing to the problem.</p>
<p><strong>Repentance.</strong> I want guys in tech — and especially those founders and funders who hold the keys to others’ opportunity — to take a moment and think about those that they’ve hurt in their path to success and actively, intentionally, and voluntarily apologize and ask for forgiveness. I want them to reach out to someone they said something inappropriate to, someone whose life they made difficult and say “I’m sorry.”</p>
<p><strong>Respect.</strong> I want to see a culture of respect actively nurtured and encouraged alongside a culture of competition. Respect requires acknowledging others’ struggles, appreciating each others’ strengths and weaknesses, and helping each other through hard times. Many of the old-timers in tech are nervous that tech culture is being subsumed by financialization. Part of resisting this transformation is putting respect front and center. Long-term success requires thinking holistically about society, not just focusing on current capitalization.</p>
<p><strong>Reparation.</strong> Every guy out there who wants to see tech thrive owes it to the field to actively seek out and mentor, support, fund, open doors for, and otherwise empower women and people of color. No excuses, no self-justifications, no sexualized bullshit. Just behavior change. Plain and simple. If our sector is about placing bets, let’s bet on a better world. And let’s solve for social equity.</p>
<p>I have a lot of respect for the women who are telling their stories, but we owe it to them to listen to the culture that they’re describing. Sadly, there are so many more stories that are not yet told. I realize that these stories are more powerful when people are named. My only hope is that those who are risking the backlash to name names will not suffer for doing so. Ideally, those who are named will not try to self-justify but acknowledge and accept that they’ve caused pain. I strongly believe that changing the norms is the only path forward. So while I want to see people held accountable, I especially want to see the industry work towards encouraging and supporting behavior change. At the end of the day, we will not solve the systemic culture of sexism by trying to weed out bad people, but we can work towards rendering bad behavior permanently unacceptable.</p>
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<p>We are searching for a “rock star” executive assistant who possesses initiative, judgment, good cheer, and the highest integrity. He or she will provide stability and organization in a hectic and sometimes chaotic team-based office environment. A strong work ethic, tenacity, and the desire to work in a teaching- and learning-based institution will prove invaluable.</p>
<p>This EA relishes the opportunity to oversee and manage the academic lives of two full-time Harvard Law School professors and Center co-directors. Professor Charles Nesson requires a high competency when it comes to course planning, scheduling, and online services such as course websites and lodging legal filings, as well as the ability to think laterally when solving problems, with a willingness to take broad ideas and pare them down to manageable action items. Professor Jonathan Zittrain requires an intense ability to focus on calendaring and scheduling mindful of a variety of people and priorities; a willingness to multitask and add, drop, or reorganize priorities at a moment’s notice; and openness to changing or rethinking existing practices.</p>
<p>Professor Nesson and Zittrain’s work with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society adds an extra layer of responsibilities to a typical EA role, including some scheduling of events and meetings at BKC, as well as working with BKC staff to coordinate projects, papers, and directors’ meetings. Professor Zittrain is also the director of the Harvard Law School Library, which requires working directly with Library staff, including its Innovation Lab, on projects, papers, and initiatives, and ensuring timely follow-up in all interactions.</p>
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</p><p>With the Berkman Klein Center and MIT Media Lab as academic anchor institutions, the <a href="https://www.knightfoundation.org/press/releases/knight-foundation-omidyar-network-and-linkedin-founder-reid-hoffman-create-27-million-fund-to-research-artificial-intelligence-for-the-public-interest">Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fund</a> announced today funding for nine organizations to amplify the voice of civil society in shaping the evolution of AI, bolstering efforts to promote the development of ethical, accountable systems that advance the public interest.</p>
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<p>With the Berkman Klein Center and MIT Media Lab as academic anchor institutions, the <a href="https://www.knightfoundation.org/press/releases/knight-foundation-omidyar-network-and-linkedin-founder-reid-hoffman-create-27-million-fund-to-research-artificial-intelligence-for-the-public-interest">Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fund</a> today <a href="https://www.knightfoundation.org/press/releases/the-ethics-and-governance-of-artificial-intelligence-fund-commits-7-6-million-to-organizations-that-bolster-civil-society-efforts-around-the-world">announced funding</a> for nine organizations to amplify the voice of civil society in shaping the evolution of AI, bolstering efforts to promote the development of ethical, accountable systems that advance the public interest. Launched in January 2017 with $27 million contributed by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Omidyar Network, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Jim Pallotta, the Fund has committed an initial $7.6 million in grants for new and ongoing initiatives.</p>
<p>The Berkman Klein Center and the MIT Media Lab received $5.9 million, which will enable work in three initial core areas: media and information quality; social and criminal justice; and autonomous vehicles. Additional projects and activities will address common challenges across these core areas such as the global governance of AI and the ways in which the use of AI may reinforce existing biases, particularly against underserved and underrepresented populations.</p>
<p>“We are deeply grateful for the generous support by the Ethics and Governance of AI Fund, which takes our productive collaboration with the MIT Media Lab to the next level and enables us to build new bridges between the worlds of engineering and computer science, public policy and law, and social science as applied to autonomous systems ” said Urs Gasser, executive director of the Berkman Klein Center and Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School. “I’m also very excited about the Fund’s commitment towards supporting a broader global conversation around AI, bringing perspectives and voices from other parts of the world to our open and collaborative effort.”</p>
<p>For more information on this initial round of funding, read <a href="https://www.knightfoundation.org/press/releases/the-ethics-and-governance-of-artificial-intelligence-fund-commits-7-6-million-to-organizations-that-bolster-civil-society-efforts-around-the-world">the full Fund press release</a>. We invite you to learn more about the Berkman Klein Center’s AI ethics and governance activities on our <a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/research/ai">updated project page</a>.</p>
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