Diverse Coalition Launches New Effort To Respond to Government Censorship and Threats to Privacy

In an effort to protect and advance the human rights of freedom of expression and privacy, a diverse coalition of leading information and communications companies, major human rights organizations, academics, investors and technology leaders today launched the Global Network Initiative.

Defending the Rights of Artists

Citizen Media Law Project joins The Right to Write Fund in protecting creative artists from legal threats

In the wake of the Harry Potter Lexicon trial, the Berkman Center's Citizen Media Law Project has announced a new partnership with the Right to Write Fund, which helped defend Harry Potter Lexicon author Steve Vander Ark and will continue to support creative artists faced with similar legal threats.

Cultivating FreeRice

The World Food Programme announced Saturday that Berkman Award Winner John Breen has expanded FreeRice to include more games; and he will be collaborating with the Berkman Center on further developing and supporting FreeRice...

Born Digital arrives on bookshelves

The Berkman Center is pleased to announce that Faculty Co-Director John Palfrey and Faculty Fellow Urs Gasser's "Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives" (Basic Books) is now available...

Citizen Media Law Project Completes Launch of Online Guide to Media Law

The Citizen Media Law Project (CMLP) announced today that it has completed the launch of its Citizen Media Legal Guide. The free guide, which is intended for use by bloggers, website operators, and other citizen media creators, focuses on the legal issues that non-traditional and traditional journalists are likely to encounter as they gather information and publish their work online.

Digital Natives team kicks off Reporters in the Field series

This afternoon, the Digital Natives project rolled out the first video in its Reporters in the Field series, which will investigate the project's issues and themes through one of those same themes: digital media creation...

Berkman Center Announces Request for Technical Submissions Related to Child Safety on the Internet

The Request for Technical Submissions asks companies, non-profits, and individuals with technologies relevant to child safety online to submit a detailed description that will enable a thorough review by the Task Force’s Technical Advisory Board.

Homeward!

Jonathan Zittrain appointed to tenured faculty position

Jonathan Zittrain has accepted an offer to become a tenured Professor of Law at Harvard Law School! He will continue to serve as a Berkman faculty co-director. Everyone at the center welcomes him home!

It's official!

Berkman Center goes university-wide

The Harvard Gazette carries the news, which was announced last Thursday morning during opening remarks at the Berkman@10 conference...

Educators, Activists, Entrepreneurs, and Lawyers Win Berkman Awards for Internet Innovation

Winners include Esra’a Al Shafei, Richard Baraniuk, John Breen, Jeffrey Cunard and Bruce Keller, Carl Malamud, and Noah Samara

Announced Friday, May 16, at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society’s tenth anniversary gala dinner, recipients of the Berkman Awards were chosen for their outstanding contributions to the Internet’s impact on society over the past decade.