dominance through legal rules), and the ways in which this manifests itself in developing countries in Africa. Fellow BKCHarvard at Harvard University :: Director YouthandMedia :: classsnsep At the heart of the Berkman Klein Center are the individuals. Adam is a Project Manager at the Berkman Klein Center, where he manages the Lumen project along with various other Center initiatives. The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University has announced the appointment of Susan Hendrickson ’93 as its new executive director.
This panel examines questions of unequal power in the global digital economy (through U.S corporations, China, and Brussels (i.e. It is not to be confused with Japan Association for Language Teaching.Yochai Benkler ( born 1964) is an Israeli-American author and the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial. Berkman Klein Center welcomes Susan Hendrickson as executive director. For so-called “periphery” countries such as those in sub-Saharan Africa, the information economy represents an opportunity to chase the long-elusive quest for industrialization, now dubbed “digital industrialization”, “digital development” or “data for development.” Despite the optimism represented in the digital development policy discourse, the limits and potentials of any kind of development are heavily constrained by background conditions rooted in past global power imbalances and a colonial legacy of non-contextual laws and institutions. From opposite sides of the country, Jonathan Zittrain, the Faculty Director of the Berkman Klein Center, was joined in conversation by Brad Smith, the President of Microsoft, to discuss challenges. The global information economy has provided freedom-enhancing affordances for previously marginalized groups, but has also enabled extractive practices in the form of digital imperialism, or as others term it, data colonialism. Introduction: The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society seeks an experienced and dynamic Director of Communications to develop the Berkman Klein Center’s communications strategy and priorities and define how we tell the stories of the Center’s research, education, tools, and global impact.
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