Liberty Tree First Amendment Online Colloquium at Yale Law School
The Yale ISP is pleased to announce the Liberty Tree First Amendment Online Colloquium at Yale Law School. This colloquium, sponsored by the Liberty Tree Initiative, McCormick Foundation and the First Amendment Center, will feature the following speakers: Frank Pasquale on Search Engine Law and the First Amendment February 5 at noon; Arianna Huffington [...]
Cyberscholar Working Group Scheduled for February 3 at MIT
The next Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group will take place Wednesday, February 3, 2010 from 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm in Room E14-633 (6th floor), MIT Campus, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA. Yale ISP Fellow Chris Wong will be a featured scholar presenting his work “Lost in Translation: The Open Patent Project.”
The Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group [...]
Yale ISP’s Growing International Network Featured in Yale Law Report
The Yale Information Society Project has been involved in a number of international activities in the past year, hosting conferences devoted to promoting access to knowledge and exploring the future of journalism, among other topics.
The center’s activities have included work with institutions across the world, includingnew research on India, China, Argentina, Ethiopia, and South Africa. [...]
Julie Cohen Lecture January 29
You are cordially invited to the first Information Society Project speaker series event of the new semester, scheduled for Friday, January 29 at noon in the Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall (location to be confirmed the week of the lecture). This event is co-sponsored by the Yale University Library and is part of the library’s [...]
Sampling of Net Neutrality Comments Submitted to FCC
Because it’s rather difficult to search the FCC site for comments on its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking “In the Matter of Preserving the Open Internet / Broadband Internet Practices” (hint: try searching for proceeding # 09-191 and excluding brief comments), I’ve decided to provide a highly unscientific sampling of 25 or so of the more [...]
Register now for A2K4: Access to Knowledge and Human Rights Conference
The right to take part in cultural life, to share in scientific progress, the rights to education, health care, and food: all are impacted by and impact upon policies and movements around intellectual property and Internet freedom.
This two-day conference seeks to lay the groundwork – conceptual and strategic – to build bridges between the A2K [...]
ISP Fellow Presents at ScienceOnline2010
ISP Fellow Victoria Stodden presents today at the structured unconference ScienceOnline2010, on Intellectual Property issues faced by scientists who make use of web-based tools, such as database sharing, collaboration, blogging, and other work sharing platforms. Her talk is available here. This is the 4th year for ScienceOnline2010, bringing together scientists, science writers, and other interested [...]
The Edge Annual Question 2010: How is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?
At the end of every year editors at the science and technology website The Edge ask a number of intellectuals to answer a thought-provoking question. This year it was “How is the internet changing the way you think?” Yale ISP fellow Victoria Stodden’s answer is posted here:
http://www.edge.org/q2010/q10_15.html#stodden
ISP Fellow Comments on the OSTP’s Public Access Policies for Science and Technology Funding Agencies – Post 3
The following comments were posted by ISP Fellow Victoria Stodden in response to the OSTP’s call, as announced here: http://www.ostp.gov/galleries/default-file/RFI%20Final%20for%20FR.pdf. The first wave, comments posted here, asked for feedback on implementation issues. The second wave requested input on Features and Technology (our post is here). For the third and final wave on Management, Chris Wiggins, [...]
Great summary of Journalism & New Media Ecology conference
Happy 2010 from the ISP. We’ve got a lot planned for the coming year—including, of course, the access to knowledge & human rights conference in February.
But in the meantime, check out this great summary and analysis of our November conference, “Journalism & The New Media Ecology: Who will pay the messengers?”
Three undergraduates in ISP fellow [...]
