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Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

December 20, 2023

The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society is a research center at Harvard University that focuses on the study of cyberspace. Founded at Harvard Law School, the center traditionally focused on internet-related legal issues. On May 15, 2008, the center was elevated to an interfaculty initiative of Harvard University as a whole.[2] It is named after the Berkman family.[3] On July 5, 2016, the center added "Klein" to its name following a gift of $15 million from Michael R. Klein.[4]

Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Formation1998; 25 years ago (1998)[1]
TypeTechnology research center
Location
Websitecyber.harvard.edu

History and mission edit

 
The location at 23 Everett Street

The center was founded in 1996 as the "Center on Law and Technology" by Jonathan Zittrain and Professor Charles Nesson. This built on previous work including a 1994 seminar they held on legal issues involving the early Internet. Professor Arthur Miller and students David Marglin and Tom Smuts also worked on that seminar and related discussions. In 1997, the Berkman family underwrote the center, and Lawrence Lessig joined as the first Berkman professor. In 1998, the center changed its name to the "Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School."[5][6][1] Since then, it has grown from a small project within Harvard Law School to a major interdisciplinary center at Harvard University.[7] The Berkman Klein Center seeks to understand how the development of Internet-related technologies is inspired by the social context in which they are embedded and how the use of those technologies affects society in turn.[clarification needed] It seeks to use the lessons drawn from this research to inform the design of Internet-related law and pioneer the development of the Internet itself.[clarification needed][8] The Berkman Klein Center sponsors Internet-related events and conferences, and hosts numerous visiting lecturers and research fellows.[9]

Members of the center teach, write books, scientific articles, weblogs with RSS 2.0 feeds (for which the Center holds the specification[10]), and podcasts (of which the first series took place at the Berkman Klein Center). Its newsletter, The Buzz, is on the Web and available by e-mail, and it hosts a blog community of Harvard faculty, students, and Berkman Klein Center affiliates.[11]

The Berkman Klein Center faculty and staff have also conducted major public policy reviews of pressing issues. In 2008, John Palfrey led a review of child safety online called the Internet Safety Technical Task Force.[12] In 2009, Yochai Benkler led a review of United States broadband policy.[13] In 2010, Urs Gasser, along with Palfrey and others, led a review of Internet governance body ICANN, focusing on transparency, accountability, and public participation.[14]

Projects and initiatives edit

The Berkman Klein Center's main research topics are Teens and Media, Monitoring, Privacy, Digital art, Internet Governance, Cloud Computing and Internet censorship. The Berkman Klein Center supports events, presentations, and conferences about the Internet and invites scientists to share their ideas.

Lumen edit

Lumen, formerly Chilling Effects, is a collaborative archive created by Wendy Seltzer that allows recipients of cease-and-desist notices to submit them to the site and receive information about their legal rights and responsibilities.[15]

Digital Media Law Project edit

The Digital Media Law Project (DMLP) was a project hosted by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. It had previously been known as the Citizen Media Law Project. The purposes of the DMLP were:

  1. To provide resources and other assistance, including legal assistance[16] as of 2009,[17] to individuals and groups involved in online and citizen media.
  2. To ensure "online journalists, media organizations, and their sources are allowed to examine and debate network security and data protection vulnerabilities without criminal punishment, in order to inform citizens and lawmakers about networked computer security."[16]
  3. To facilitate the participation of citizens in online media.
  4. To protect the freedom of speech on the Internet.[18][19]

In 2014, Berkman Klein Center announced that it would "spin off its most effective initiatives and cease operation as a stand-alone project within the Berkman Klein Center."[17]

Internet and Democracy Project edit

The Berkman Klein Center operated the now-completed Internet and Democracy Project, which describes itself as an:

initiative that will examine how the Internet influences democratic norms and modes, including its impact on civil society, citizen media, government transparency, and the rule of law, with a focus on the Middle East. Through a grant of $1.5 million from the US Department of State's Middle East Partnership Initiative, the Berkman Center will undertake the study over the next two years in collaboration with its extended community and institutional partners. As with all its projects, the Berkman Center retains complete independence in its research and other efforts under this grant. The goal of this work is to support the rights of citizens to access, develop and share independent sources of information, to advocate responsibly, to strengthen online networks, and to debate ideas freely with both civil society and government. These subjects will be examined through a series of case studies in which new technologies and online resources have influenced democracy and civic engagement. The project will include original research and the identification and development of innovative web-based tools that support the goals of the project. The team, led by Project Director Bruce Etling, will draw on communities from around the world, with a focus on the Middle East.[20]

StopBadware edit

In 2006, the center established the non-profit organization StopBadware, aiming to stop viruses, spyware, and other threats to the open Internet, in partnership with the Oxford Internet Institute, Google, Lenovo and Sun Microsystems.[21] In 2010, StopBadware became an independent entity supported by Google, PayPal, and Mozilla.[22]

Digital Public Library of America edit

The Digital Public Library of America is a project aimed at making a large-scale digital public library accessible to all.[23]

Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence edit

In 2017, the BKC received a $27M grant with the MIT Media Lab to "advance artificial intelligence research for the public good"[24] and "to ensure automation and machine learning are researched, developed, and deployed in a way which vindicates social values of fairness, human autonomy, and justice."[25]

Members edit

Fellows include or have included:

Faculty include:

The center also has active groups of faculty associates, affiliates[26] and alumni[27] who host and participate in their projects each year.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b Swartz, Jon (10 June 2008). "Berkman Center pioneers steer the course of cyberspace". USA Today. from the original on 13 January 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2011.
  2. ^ Bradt, Steve. . News.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 2008-10-22. Retrieved August 22, 2010.
  3. ^ "Berkman Gift of $5.4 Million to Support Professorship for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies and Center for Internet & Society". harvard.edu. from the original on 20 January 2015. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
  4. ^ "Michael R. Klein LL.M. '67 supports future of cyberspace exploration and study - Harvard Law Today". from the original on 2016-07-06. Retrieved 2016-07-05.
  5. ^ "Frequently Asked Questions". Berkman Klein Center FAQ. Berkman Klein Center. from the original on October 2, 2016. Retrieved September 28, 2016.
  6. ^ "Timeline". Berkman Klein Center Timeline. Berkman Klein Center. from the original on October 2, 2016. Retrieved September 28, 2016.
  7. ^ "Harvard's Berkman Center Launches Publius Project". Schoollibraryjournal.com. May 19, 2008. from the original on March 28, 2012. Retrieved August 24, 2010.
  8. ^ "About Berkman Center". November 3, 2008. from the original on April 27, 2011. Retrieved March 30, 2011.
  9. ^ . Cyber.law.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 2011-09-06. Retrieved September 9, 2011.
  10. ^ "Advisory Board Notes". RSS Advisory Board. July 18, 2003. from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved September 4, 2007.
  11. ^ László, Ropolyi (2006). Az internet természete - Google Books. Typotex Kft. ISBN 9789639664234. from the original on July 27, 2020. Retrieved August 24, 2010.
  12. ^ "Harvard, MySpace spearhead Internet safety task force". Ars Technica. 29 February 2008. from the original on 8 December 2010. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
  13. ^ Yochai Benkler (March 20, 2010). "Ending the Internet's Trench Warfare". New York Times Op-Ed. from the original on March 24, 2017. Retrieved February 24, 2017.
  14. ^ "Accountability and Transparency Review Team – Selection of Independent Expert and Update on ATRT Review". icann.org. from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
  15. ^ "About :: Lumen". www.lumendatabase.org. Retrieved 2023-08-08.
  16. ^ a b Walsh, Kit; Hermes, Jeffrey P.; Sellars, Andrew F. (2013-07-08). "Brief of Amicus Curiae Digital Media Law Project in Support of Defendant-Appellant [Andrew Auernheimer]". EFF.org. from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-08-31.
  17. ^ a b Benton, Joshua (2014-06-25). "The Digital Media Law Project is shutting down, but its most important projects will find new homes". NiemanLab.org. from the original on 2015-09-26. Retrieved 2015-08-31.
  18. ^ Anderson, R.; Warne, C. (2014). "Digital Media Law Project". Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. 4: 398–399. doi:10.4135/9781452244723.n158. ISBN 9781452244716.
  19. ^ "Digital Media Law Project". Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Harvard.edu. from the original on 2015-09-05. Retrieved 2015-08-31.
  20. ^ "Internet and Democracy - Berkman Center". harvard.edu. from the original on 14 October 2015. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
  21. ^ Mohammed, Arshad (25 January 2006). "Internet Coalition Sets Up Anti-'Badware' Site". The Washington Post. from the original on 4 February 2018. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
  22. ^ Miller, Mary Helen (28 January 2010). "StopBadware Spins Off From Harvard U. to Be a Stand-Alone Nonprofit Group". The Chronicle of Higher Education. from the original on 4 February 2018. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
  23. ^ "About Us". Digital Public Library of America. from the original on 2021-04-16. Retrieved 2021-05-01.
  24. ^ "MIT Media Lab to participate in $27 million initiative on AI ethics and governance". MIT News. 10 January 2017. from the original on 2019-12-22. Retrieved 2019-12-21.
  25. ^ Williams, Oliver. "Why Tech Billionaires Are Spending To Restrain Artificial Intelligence". Forbes. from the original on 2019-12-21. Retrieved 2019-12-21.
  26. ^ . harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-09-07. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
  27. ^ . harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-09-09. Retrieved 29 October 2015.

External links edit

  •   Media related to Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Wikimedia Commons
  • Official website

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when to remove this template message The Berkman Klein Center for Internet amp Society is a research center at Harvard University that focuses on the study of cyberspace Founded at Harvard Law School the center traditionally focused on internet related legal issues On May 15 2008 the center was elevated to an interfaculty initiative of Harvard University as a whole 2 It is named after the Berkman family 3 On July 5 2016 the center added Klein to its name following a gift of 15 million from Michael R Klein 4 Berkman Klein Center for Internet amp SocietyFormation1998 25 years ago 1998 1 TypeTechnology research centerLocationHarvard University Cambridge Massachusetts United StatesWebsitecyber wbr harvard wbr edu Contents 1 History and mission 2 Projects and initiatives 2 1 Lumen 2 2 Digital Media Law Project 2 3 Internet and Democracy Project 2 4 StopBadware 2 5 Digital Public Library of America 2 6 Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence 3 Members 4 See also 5 References 6 External linksHistory and mission edit nbsp The location at 23 Everett StreetThe center was founded in 1996 as the Center on Law and Technology by Jonathan Zittrain and Professor Charles Nesson This built on previous work including a 1994 seminar they held on legal issues involving the early Internet Professor Arthur Miller and students David Marglin and Tom Smuts also worked on that seminar and related discussions In 1997 the Berkman family underwrote the center and Lawrence Lessig joined as the first Berkman professor In 1998 the center changed its name to the Berkman Center for Internet amp Society at Harvard Law School 5 6 1 Since then it has grown from a small project within Harvard Law School to a major interdisciplinary center at Harvard University 7 The Berkman Klein Center seeks to understand how the development of Internet related technologies is inspired by the social context in which they are embedded and how the use of those technologies affects society in turn clarification needed It seeks to use the lessons drawn from this research to inform the design of Internet related law and pioneer the development of the Internet itself clarification needed 8 The Berkman Klein Center sponsors Internet related events and conferences and hosts numerous visiting lecturers and research fellows 9 Members of the center teach write books scientific articles weblogs with RSS 2 0 feeds for which the Center holds the specification 10 and podcasts of which the first series took place at the Berkman Klein Center Its newsletter The Buzz is on the Web and available by e mail and it hosts a blog community of Harvard faculty students and Berkman Klein Center affiliates 11 The Berkman Klein Center faculty and staff have also conducted major public policy reviews of pressing issues In 2008 John Palfrey led a review of child safety online called the Internet Safety Technical Task Force 12 In 2009 Yochai Benkler led a review of United States broadband policy 13 In 2010 Urs Gasser along with Palfrey and others led a review of Internet governance body ICANN focusing on transparency accountability and public participation 14 Projects and initiatives editThe Berkman Klein Center s main research topics are Teens and Media Monitoring Privacy Digital art Internet Governance Cloud Computing and Internet censorship The Berkman Klein Center supports events presentations and conferences about the Internet and invites scientists to share their ideas Lumen edit Lumen formerly Chilling Effects is a collaborative archive created by Wendy Seltzer that allows recipients of cease and desist notices to submit them to the site and receive information about their legal rights and responsibilities 15 Digital Media Law Project edit The Digital Media Law Project DMLP was a project hosted by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet amp Society at Harvard Law School It had previously been known as the Citizen Media Law Project The purposes of the DMLP were To provide resources and other assistance including legal assistance 16 as of 2009 update 17 to individuals and groups involved in online and citizen media To ensure online journalists media organizations and their sources are allowed to examine and debate network security and data protection vulnerabilities without criminal punishment in order to inform citizens and lawmakers about networked computer security 16 To facilitate the participation of citizens in online media To protect the freedom of speech on the Internet 18 19 In 2014 Berkman Klein Center announced that it would spin off its most effective initiatives and cease operation as a stand alone project within the Berkman Klein Center 17 Internet and Democracy Project edit The Berkman Klein Center operated the now completed Internet and Democracy Project which describes itself as an initiative that will examine how the Internet influences democratic norms and modes including its impact on civil society citizen media government transparency and the rule of law with a focus on the Middle East Through a grant of 1 5 million from the US Department of State s Middle East Partnership Initiative the Berkman Center will undertake the study over the next two years in collaboration with its extended community and institutional partners As with all its projects the Berkman Center retains complete independence in its research and other efforts under this grant The goal of this work is to support the rights of citizens to access develop and share independent sources of information to advocate responsibly to strengthen online networks and to debate ideas freely with both civil society and government These subjects will be examined through a series of case studies in which new technologies and online resources have influenced democracy and civic engagement The project will include original research and the identification and development of innovative web based tools that support the goals of the project The team led by Project Director Bruce Etling will draw on communities from around the world with a focus on the Middle East 20 StopBadware edit In 2006 the center established the non profit organization StopBadware aiming to stop viruses spyware and other threats to the open Internet in partnership with the Oxford Internet Institute Google Lenovo and Sun Microsystems 21 In 2010 StopBadware became an independent entity supported by Google PayPal and Mozilla 22 Digital Public Library of America edit The Digital Public Library of America is a project aimed at making a large scale digital public library accessible to all 23 Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence edit In 2017 the BKC received a 27M grant with the MIT Media Lab to advance artificial intelligence research for the public good 24 and to ensure automation and machine learning are researched developed and deployed in a way which vindicates social values of fairness human autonomy and justice 25 Members editFellows include or have included John Perry Barlow danah boyd Amber Case Kathy Pham Jacinda Ardern John Clippinger Yasodara Cordova Primavera de Filippi Tamar Frankel Samer Hassan Benjamin Mako Hill Reynol Junco Rebecca MacKinnon James F Moore Mayo Fuster Morell Bruce Schneier Doc Searls Wendy Seltzer Peter Suber Jimmy Wales David Weinberger Dave Winer Ethan Zuckerman Mary L Gray Faculty include Yochai Benkler William W Fisher Lawrence Lessig Charles Nesson John Palfrey Jonathan Zittrain Alejandra CaraballoThe center also has active groups of faculty associates affiliates 26 and alumni 27 who host and participate in their projects each year See also editBerkeley Center for Law and Technology at Boalt Hall Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic at University of Ottawa Faculty of Law Centre for Internet and Society India Haifa Center for Law amp Technology at Haifa University Information Society Project at Yale Law School NEXA Center for Internet and Society at the Polytechnic University of Turin Openlaw Oxford Internet InstituteReferences edit a b Swartz Jon 10 June 2008 Berkman Center pioneers steer the course of cyberspace USA Today Archived from the original on 13 January 2012 Retrieved 28 March 2011 Bradt Steve Harvard Gazette announcement of Berkman Center elevation to Harvard interfaculty initiative News harvard edu Archived from the original on 2008 10 22 Retrieved August 22 2010 Berkman Gift of 5 4 Million to Support Professorship for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies and Center for Internet amp Society harvard edu Archived from the original on 20 January 2015 Retrieved 29 October 2015 Michael R Klein LL M 67 supports future of cyberspace exploration and study Harvard Law Today Archived from the original on 2016 07 06 Retrieved 2016 07 05 Frequently Asked Questions Berkman Klein Center FAQ Berkman Klein Center Archived from the original on October 2 2016 Retrieved September 28 2016 Timeline Berkman Klein Center Timeline Berkman Klein Center Archived from the original on October 2 2016 Retrieved September 28 2016 Harvard s Berkman Center Launches Publius Project Schoollibraryjournal com May 19 2008 Archived from the original on March 28 2012 Retrieved August 24 2010 About Berkman Center November 3 2008 Archived from the original on April 27 2011 Retrieved March 30 2011 Berkman Center People Fellows Cyber law harvard edu Archived from the original on 2011 09 06 Retrieved September 9 2011 Advisory Board Notes RSS Advisory Board July 18 2003 Archived from the original on September 27 2007 Retrieved September 4 2007 Laszlo Ropolyi 2006 Az internet termeszete Google Books Typotex Kft ISBN 9789639664234 Archived from the original on July 27 2020 Retrieved August 24 2010 Harvard MySpace spearhead Internet safety task force Ars Technica 29 February 2008 Archived from the original on 8 December 2010 Retrieved 29 October 2015 Yochai Benkler March 20 2010 Ending the Internet s Trench Warfare New York Times Op Ed Archived from the original on March 24 2017 Retrieved February 24 2017 Accountability and Transparency Review Team Selection of Independent Expert and Update on ATRT Review icann org Archived from the original on 22 February 2012 Retrieved 29 October 2015 About Lumen www lumendatabase org Retrieved 2023 08 08 a b Walsh Kit Hermes Jeffrey P Sellars Andrew F 2013 07 08 Brief of Amicus Curiae Digital Media Law Project in Support of Defendant Appellant Andrew Auernheimer EFF org Archived from the original on 2016 03 04 Retrieved 2015 08 31 a b Benton Joshua 2014 06 25 The Digital Media Law Project is shutting down but its most important projects will find new homes NiemanLab org Archived from the original on 2015 09 26 Retrieved 2015 08 31 Anderson R Warne C 2014 Digital Media Law Project Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics Thousand Oaks CA SAGE Publications Inc 4 398 399 doi 10 4135 9781452244723 n158 ISBN 9781452244716 Digital Media Law Project Berkman Center for Internet amp Society Harvard edu Archived from the original on 2015 09 05 Retrieved 2015 08 31 Internet and Democracy Berkman Center harvard edu Archived from the original on 14 October 2015 Retrieved 29 October 2015 Mohammed Arshad 25 January 2006 Internet Coalition Sets Up Anti Badware Site The Washington Post Archived from the original on 4 February 2018 Retrieved 3 February 2018 Miller Mary Helen 28 January 2010 StopBadware Spins Off From Harvard U to Be a Stand Alone Nonprofit Group The Chronicle of Higher Education Archived from the original on 4 February 2018 Retrieved 3 February 2018 About Us Digital Public Library of America Archived from the original on 2021 04 16 Retrieved 2021 05 01 MIT Media Lab to participate in 27 million initiative on AI ethics and governance MIT News 10 January 2017 Archived from the original on 2019 12 22 Retrieved 2019 12 21 Williams Oliver Why Tech Billionaires Are Spending To Restrain Artificial Intelligence Forbes Archived from the original on 2019 12 21 Retrieved 2019 12 21 People harvard edu Archived from the original on 2015 09 07 Retrieved 29 October 2015 People harvard edu Archived from the original on 2015 09 09 Retrieved 29 October 2015 External links edit nbsp Media related to Berkman Klein Center for Internet amp Society at Wikimedia Commons Official website 42 22 46 N 71 07 10 W 42 37955 N 71 11957 W 42 37955 71 11957 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Berkman Klein Center for Internet 26 Society amp oldid 1190509596, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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