|
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is a research center at Harvard University that focuses on the study of cyberspace. Founded at Harvard Law School, the center traditionally focused on internet-related legal issues. On May 15, 2008, the Center was elevated to an interfaculty initiative of Harvard University as a whole. It is named after the Berkman family, who owned the communications company The Associated Group (later sold to Liberty Media).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Berkman Gift of $5.4 Million to Support Professorship for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies and Center for Internet & Society )〕 Sister centers started or inspired by Berkman founders include the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, Oxford Internet Institute, and Bilgi University Institute of Information and Technology Law. Partner institutions, such as the NEXA Center for Internet and Society at the Polytechnic University of Turin in Italy, Zhejiang University of Media and Communications (ZUMC) Center for Internet and Society, and the Bangalore Centre for Internet & Society, have also been founded since the launch of the Berkman Center. == History and mission == The Berkman Center was founded in 1998 by professors Jonathan Zittrain and Charlie Nesson.〔 Since then, it has grown from a small project within Harvard Law School to a major interdisciplinary center at Harvard University. The Berkman Center seeks to understand how the development of Internet-related technologies is inspired by the social context in which they are embedded and how the use of those technologies affects society in turn. It seeks to use the lessons drawn from this research to inform the design of Internet-related law and pioneer the development of the Internet itself.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About Berkman Center )〕 The Berkman Center sponsors Internet-related events and conferences, and hosts numerous visiting lecturers and research fellows. Members of the center teach, write books, scientific articles, weblogs with RSS 2.0 feeds (for which the Center holds the specification), and podcasts (of which the first series took place at the Berkman Center). Its newsletter, ''The Filter'', is on the Web and available by e-mail, and it hosts a blog community of Harvard faculty, students, and Berkman Center affiliates. The Berkman Center faculty and staff have also conducted major public policy reviews of pressing issues. In 2008, John Palfrey led a review of child safety online called the Internet Safety Technical Task Force.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Harvard, MySpace spearhead Internet safety task force )〕 In 2009, Yochai Benkler led a review of United States broadband policy. In 2010, Urs Gasser, along with Palfrey and others, led a review of Internet governance body ICANN, focusing on transparency, accountability, and public participation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Accountability and Transparency Review Team – Selection of Independent Expert and Update on ATRT Review )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Berkman Center for Internet & Society」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|