Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group October 7 at MIT
Two ISP Fellows will be presenting at the Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholars Working Group scheduled for Wednesday, October 7 from 6:00-8:30 p.m. in the Roth Room in the 2nd Floor of the MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames Street, 02139, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Directions. Please RSVP at labrune@media.mit.edu. Light snacks provided. Bring the discussion!
Frank Pasquale, Yale ISP fellow, [...]
Optimal Information Disclosure Levels: Data.gov and “Taleb’s Criticism”
I was listening to the audio recording of last Friday’s “Scientific Data for Evidence Based Policy and Decision Making” symposium at the National Academies, and was struck by the earnest effort on the part of members of the Whitehouse to release governmental data to the public. Beth Noveck, Obama’s Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Open [...]
Tech Policy Reading Group
Week 3 / Sept 29: Wireless & Spectrum Readings:
FCC Notice of Inquiry, Fostering Innovation and Investment in the Wireless Communications Market: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-09-66A1.pdf (pages 1-10, 16-23, 28-30)
Victor Pickard & Sascha D. Meinrath, Revitalizing the Public Airwaves: http://www.newamerica.net/files/Pickard_Meinrath_WorkingPaper24_RevitalizingPublicAirwaves.pdf (addressing various models of spectrum reform) (pages 7-11)
Philadelphia Story: http://www.newamerica.net/files/NAF_PhilWireless_report.pdf
Larry Page & former FCC Chairman Kevin Martin on white [...]
The Markey Net Neutrality Bill: Least Restrictive Network Management?
It’s an exciting time in the net neutrality debate. FCC Chairman Jules Genachowski’s speech on Monday promised a new FCC proceeding that will aim to create a formal rule to replace the Commission’s existing policy statement.
Meanwhile, net neutrality advocates in Congress are pondering new legislation for two reasons: First, there is a debate about whether [...]
Research partnership with University of the People
The Information Society Project at Yale Law School is expanding its research program in digital education by entering into a research partnership with University of the People, the world’s first tuition-free, online academic institution. Dedicated to the global advancement and democratization of higher education, University of the People is a nonprofit organization comprised of volunteers [...]
ISP reading group: Technology Policy in the Obama Administration
Each semester, the ISP organizes a student-led reading group for law students with an interest in technology, copyright, patents, innovation, access to knowledge, and other related fields. This fall, Anjali Dalal, a 3L student fellow, and Nicholas Bramble, a Kauffman fellow, have put together a set of readings relating to technology policy in the Obama [...]
Yale ISP at International Telecommunication Union Conference in Fiji
Yale ISP Executive Director Laura DeNardis addressed the International Telecommunication Union’s Bridging the Standardization Gap conference in Nada, Fiji on September 16-17, 2009. The ITU, the specialized agency of the United Nations for information and communication technology standards convened the workshop as part of its “Bridging the Standardization Gap” program to improve technical standardization capacity [...]
Launch of New Yale University Press Book on Technology Writing
The ISP is co-sponsoring an exciting panel on September 30 to celebrate the launch of a new Yale University Press book called The Best Technology Writing 2009. The panel will feature Steven Johnson (author of The Invention of Air; and Everything Bad is Good For You), Jack Balkin (Professor of Law, Yale Law School), [...]
Molly Beutz Land lecture on Health Information and Human Rights
Molly Beutz Land, Associate Professor at New York Law School, spoke about access to health information as a human right.
A Yale Law School graduate, former Bernstein Fellow and Lowenstein Clinical Fellow, Molly Beutz Land has experience as an IP litigator and writes extensively on access to knowledge themes from a human rights perspective.
She shared with [...]
Educating the Many and Not the Few: A Digital Model for Change
The Yale Information Society Project will be joined on September 22 by Shai Reshef, the Founder and President of the University of the People. He will deliver a lecture on “Educating the Many and Not the Few: A Digital Model for Change” at 4:10 p.m. in Room 121 of Yale Law School.
Fast Company named [...]
Siva Vaidhynathan Lecture on “The Googlization of Everything”
You are cordially invited to the inaugural Information Society Project speaker series of the new year, scheduled for Tuesday, September 8 at 1:15 p.m. in the Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall and co-sponsored by the Yale University Library. The lecture hall is immediately across Wall Street from the law school. Siva Vaidhynathan, media scholar [...]
