This week’s Yale ISP Speaker Series features ISP Fellow Elizabeth Stark…

Using the declaration as a starting point, I will further examine the five tenets that the open university campaign envisions: open access, open courseware, free software and open standards, patents for the public good, and respecting the open nature of the Internet. Lastly, I will discuss using these tenets as a potential means for assessing the openness of universities and encouraging greater progress in the field.

Elizabeth Stark is a Visiting Fellow at the Yale Information Society Project and a Lecturer in Computer Science at Yale College. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Stark founded the Harvard Free Culture Group.  She serves on the board of directors of the international organization Students for Free Culture, dedicated to promoting access to knowledge, technological freedom, and participatory culture. While at Harvard, she was Editor-at-Large of the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, and worked with the Advocates for Human Rights on promoting human rights through new media.  Elizabeth is an affiliate of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and has taught courses in Cyberlaw, Technology and Politics, and Electronic Music. She has collaborated with organizations such as Creative Commons, SPARC, the Free Software Foundation, and the Wikimedia Foundation.

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