Netizenship
The Internet’s design relies on few mechanisms of central control. This allows new services to be introduced, and new destinations to come online, without any vetting or blocking by either private incumbents or public authorities. However, because we cannot easily measure the network and the character of the activity on it, we cannot easily assess [...]
Network Neutrality - the brain trust!
This is a real gallery of big names; Terry Fisher is in the chair and Yochai Benkler and Tim Wu are speaking. Not only that, but sitting in front of me are Chris Marsden (the UK expert; see his work here)) and Motohiro Tsuchiya (the Japanese expert!), and Maria Gomez Rodriguez (completing a fantastic [...]
Going native with Palfrey and Gasser
John Palfrey and Urs Gasser are presenting a session on “Digital Natives”, which is a research project they have been engaged in for some time. The book that has emerged from their research, Born Digital, is complete and will be published this summer.
If you want to follow at home (no stream for this bit), [...]
In the frame
Parallel sessions on “open” starting the day today; I’m at “The Language Of Openness“:
Nothing matters more than what the Net is. Yet when we call it a “space” or a “stage” or “pipes,” we frame it with metaphors that yield very different purposes, laws and business models—also different futures. What different laws and regulation do [...]