Talk:Berkman Center for Internet & Society

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[edit] Duplicate article

This is from Berkman Center, which I am changing to a redirect. I am not convinced any of this information needs merged into the article, but if anyone is working on this article, I thought you'd like to know.

[edit] Mission

The Berkman Center's mission is to explore and understand cyberspace, its development, dynamics, norms, standards, and need or lack thereof for laws and sanctions.

We are a research center, premised on the observation that what we seek to learn is not already recorded. Our method is to build out into cyberspace, record data as we go, self-study, and publish. Our mode is entrepreneurial nonprofit.

[edit] About Us

The Berkman Center is a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. We represent a network of faculty, students, fellows, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and virtual architects working to identify and engage with the challenges and opportunities of cyberspace.

How long has the Berkman Center been around? Who started it, with what rationale(s), and with what funding/resources? MaynardClark 21:02, 11 October 2007 (UTC)MaynardClark

  • "In 1996, Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson and Jonathan Zittrain established what was then called the "Center on Law and Technology" at Harvard Law School. The Center grew out of a seminar with Arthur Miller, David Marglin, and Tom Smuts in 1994 on cutting-edge Internet issues. The Center set out "to explore and understand cyberspace, its development, dynamics, norms, standards, and need or lack thereof for laws and sanctions." A gift of $5.4 million in 1997 from the Berkman family--Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman, and their son Myles--underwrote Nesson's vision. Lawrence Lessig was awarded the Berkman professorship. The Center on Law and Technology then changed its name to the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, and has steadily expanded ever since." Please see [This Link] Ccj1981 (talk) 01:40, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

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