(ISF) FW: From the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, December 2006

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Your regular dose of public-interest Internet news and commentary from
the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.

FILTER CONTENTS:

[0] From the Center

[1] Features

[2] Networked: Bookmarks, Webcasts, Podcasts, Tags, and Blogposts

[3] Global Voices: Digital Dose of Global Conversations

[4] Community Links

[5] Upcoming Conferences

[6] Staying Connected

[7] Filter Facts

[0] From the Center

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It's the end of the year for many of our readers, but around here the
year is at its half-way mark; lots of excitement is yet to come before
graduation time. Looking back, it's always hard to believe how much
has happened at the Center and around our community, but this year our
collective space has been nothing short of explosive. What may have
been deemed niche issues, are now firmly established as mainstream
concerns. Whether one considers the proliferation of blogs, podcasts
and other user-generated media (paired with traditional media's
increasing embrace of the Net); the novel ways governments, activists,
universities, and businesses are engaging with new technologies,
business models and partners; or the rapid pace and changing landscape
of technological innovation, it is clear that change is afoot. There
remains a long way to travel in so many senses, and we look forward to
watching – and participating – in this revolution with you. My sincere
thanks for your loyal readership and best wishes for the holiday
season.

-- Colin Maclay, Managing Director, Berkman Center--

[1] FEATURES: a bit of what's going on at Berkman and where to read more

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Folksonomy as Symbol

~David Weinberger

It's easy to minimize the importance of folksonomies. These bottom-up
taxonomies are just another tool in the kit. Besides, they've been
around for a while, well before Thomas Vander Wal gave them a
felicitous name. For example, at eBay a sellers' preference for
'laptop' over 'notebook' has emerged all by itself. In fact, isn't
language itself the first folksonomy? Words evolve based on bottom-up
usage. So, taxonomies are nothing new.

If that's so, then we're led ever more forcefully to ask: Why the
fuss? If folksonomies are old hat, why are we treating them like
something fresh and important?

Certainly, in part it's because folksonomies are particularly useful
when there are lots of people trying to communicate about a shared set
of resources and when there's no central authority that can stipulate
the accepted vocabulary and canonical taxonomy. The Web is just such
an environment. So, even though there have been folksonomies in the
past, the Web has given them a big, whopping, important problem to
solve. But, there are lots of innovations for dealing with the Web
that have not excited the same degree of enthusiasm. Listmania at
Amazon is new and interesting, but not spurring academic conferences.
Ebay's trust system is important, but is generally being taken as a
useful mechanism, not a change in how we think or how crowds operate.
Something about folksonomies has struck a chord, generating interest
beyond their benefits as navigational tools. Folksonomies seem to have
a symbolic value.

If a folksonomy is a symbol, what is it a symbol of?

First, folksonomies stick it to The Man. We don't need no stinkin'
experts to organize ideas and information! There is, of course,
inefficiency built into expert-based taxonomies because they have to
choose one way of ordering, and that one way is necessarily infested
with personal, class, and cultural biases. As Clay Shirky says,
&quot;Metadata is worldview." But beyond the inefficiency, simply having
someone else have the authority to say 'It shall be filed thus' is a
statement of political authority. Even when the experts do a good
job—as they usually do, because they're experts—it is still an
implicit statement that someone else's way of thinking is better than
yours.

In the face of this, folksonomy says not just that we each have our
own way, but that something useful emerges from it. Folksonomies are
proof of the power of emergence. Emergence is a fascinating phenomenon
because it explains complexity through intrinsic simplicity. For
example, termites build complex towers by following rules so simple
that they fit in a termite's brain. But there is also a political side
to our interest in emergence, beyond its explanatory power. Emergence
is hope. It says (or we take it as saying) that left to ourselves,
without extrinsic structuring or regulation or governance, we will be
magnificent. This is beyond the hope implicit in democracy that says a
group will be able to live together if all are given equal power. We
won't just live together, but something far beyond the capabilities of
any of us will emerge. Simply by being together, cathedrals will
emerge...

The rest of Dr. Weinberger's essay can be found here:
<;http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home?wid=10&func=viewSubmission&amp;sid=2541>

Technology in the Classroom

The great interest in Berkman Center Faculty Director Terry Fisher and
Berkman Fellow William McGeveran's paper, "The Digital Learning
Challenge: Obstacles to Educational Uses of Copyrighted Material in
the Digital Age," suggests that the question of technology's influence
in education is emerging in many fields and across disciplines.
Analyzing the ways in which educators are constrained by digital
copyright protections, the paper's ranking at the Social Science
Research Network (SSRN) sees it as a top download in four subject
areas: it is the #1 all-time download in "New Institutional
Economics", the #7 all-time download in "IO: Productivity, Innovation
& Technology", the #2 all-time download "PIT: Innovation (Topic)&quot; and
the #2 all-time download in "PIT: Intellectual Property (Topic)&quot;. The
highest order of congratulations go to Professor Fisher, Professor
McGeveran, student fellow Jackie Harlow and Arielle Silver for their
tremendous accomplishment.

&quot;The Digital Learning Challenge: Obstacles to Educational Uses of
Copyrighted Material in the Digital Age" is available for download at
SSRN: <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=923465>;

An interview with Professor McGeveran about the project is at:
<http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/audioberkman/2006/08/10/the-digital-learning-challenge/>

Meanwhile, Berkman Fellow Gene Koo has focused his work, not on the
intellectual property end of technology's use in education, but on the
role that technology plays in a law school curriculum and in preparing
students for work in the legal profession. As part of the "(un)Common
Knowledge: Legal Education in the Networked World"; event, Mr. Koo
asked:

1. What are the new skills demanded by a technology-enhanced practice?
Consider two new practices: (1) e-discovery, which has made it
possible for lawyers to sift through of millions of emails and
documents; and (2) huge, multi-office teams, which are tackling both
more complex but also more discrete issues. The first is one of many
examples of computers as intelligence augmentation; the second
illustrates technology as network augmentation.

* What are the technical skills? Are our new associates as
computer-literate as we claim?

* What are the cognitive/conceptual skills? Are successful lawyers
also necessarily systems- and "meta"-level thinkers?

* What are the social skills? What collaboration and teamwork skills
do legal workplaces demand today?

* What "anti-skills&quot; or attitudes should young attorneys cultivate?
How do lawyers prevent themselves from becoming isolated
techno-drones?

2. Who should teach these skills? We have representatives from the law
school, law practice, and CLE worlds. Where does the buck stop?

* Does a networked and "databased" environment shift power away from
the teacher (someone who creates and controls an educational
experience) to the learner (someone who will seek
knowledge/information as s/he sees fit)? Do we have any choice in this
matter?

3. How should they/we teach these skills? In addition to presenting
bigger challenges, technology — especially the Internet — also affords
us new possibilities.

* Can traditional distance learning techniques bridge a different gap
than geography: that between practice and the academy?

* How can clinical programs serve not just as opportunities for
practice, but also opportunities for technology-enabled practice?

* Can technology enable or enhance simulations as a pedagogical tool?

* How do sophisticated networks and networking tools enable lawyers,
law professors, and even law students to aggregate and disseminate
crucial knowledge? Is the teacher's role diminished or changed in this
environment?

Mr. Koo's thoughts can be found on his blog at:
<http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vvvv/2006/12/04/legal-ed-in-a-networked-world-whats-at-stake/>

How Open Will Harvard Be to Internet & Society?

Berkman Center founder Charles Nesson is in conference mode, and the
previous issues regarding technology and education are not lost on
him. Along with Professor Charles Ogletree, Professor Nesson has been
co-chairing bi-annual Internet & Society conferences since 1996, and
the 2007 event is in motion. At the root of this conference is a heavy
question that encompasses myriad perspectives in innovation,
technology and the transfers of knowledge: how open will Harvard be to
internet & society?

Professor Nesson asked a Tuesday Luncheon Series group just that
question. In identifying three areas - University,
Government/Non-profit and For-profit/Corporation - there was debate as
to what degree each should have impact on the work and functionality
of the other. Harvard, as Professor Nesson understands it, is
privileged in its influence and in the connections it maintains to
parties in the other two areas. When Harvard acts, other universities
follow. So to what degree does Harvard work to honor the platform on
which it rests with respect to University systems as a whole, and how
can and will open access at Harvard change the dynamics of education
and shared knowledge worldwide? Like the events we are planning in the
leadup to the Internet & Society 2007 Conference, the lunch drew upon
the collective knowledge of the crowd. Coming from different
perspectives, different schools and different fields, variance and
shading came through in participants' concerns: how is Harvard any
more trustworthy than a corporation or a government given its wealth
and high level of influence? Will open access disrupt or stifle
innovation when people fear their strengths or blunders are more
susceptible to imitation or ridicule? Once certain areas of
information are constructed in more open systems, how can information
from Harvard be made available not just to people who are virtually
connected but to those who have fewer technological capabilities?

The responses and the conversation are available in audio and video at
MediaBerkman: <http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/2006/12/21/how-open-will-harvard-be-to-internet-society/>;

And now your part - how do you envision open access at the university
level? Professor Nesson writes, "please. each of you who attended our
i*s berkman session, face to face or web. what happened. what question
peaked your interest. use our means to light consideration of these
issues. please blog our lexis nexis evening. please, everyone.
community is like a ship at sea. whose hero is gibson. link together
what is happening here into a human net of global voices. everyman to
take the helm in a chorus of voices rising from the universities of
the world in concert with overmundo."

Responses are welcome here: <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/nesson/blog/?p=240>;

Please sign up for our listserv to discuss the upcoming conference:
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/subscribe/is2k7>

Digital Rights Management & Interoperability

The Berkman Center has partnered with The Research Center for
Information Law at the University of St. Gallen for a research
initiative to explore interoperability and its relationship to
innovation. Recognizing key occasions in which interoperability is a
factor - such as digital identity, e-communications/instant messaging,
office applications, and digital music/DRM issues - the project's
studies will attempt to discern the factors that influence
interoperability and its future.

St. Gallen Professor and Berkman Fellow Urs Gasser recently spoke
before the Federal Trade Commission, providing a "European voice"; in
the discussion on digital rights management. At the hearing, entitled
"Protecting Consumers in the Next Techade,&quot; Dr. Gasser reported on the
DRM discussion in Europe, noting the lack of a cohesive system and the
obstacles faced in the harmonization of anti-circumvention laws.
Post-presentation, Dr. Gasser wrote:

At the European level, though, no coherent DRM interoperability
framework exists, although DRM interoperability has been identified as
an emerging issue by the European Commission, which has established -
among other things - a multi-stakeholder High Level Group on DRM that
has also addressed DRM interoperability issues. The lack of specific
and EU-wide DRM interoperability provisions leaves us with three areas
of law that address this issue more generally, both at the EU level as
well as the level of EU member states. The areas are: copyright law,
competition law, and consumer protection law.

Copyright Law

The EU Copyright Directive, mandating the legal protection of DRM
systems, does not set forth rules on DRM interoperability. Recital 54
only mentions that DRM interoperability is something member states
should encourage, but does not provide further guidance and seems to
trust in the market forces. However, one might argue that the
anti-circumvention framework itself allows the design of interoperable
systems - e.g. a music player able to play songs encoded in different
DRM standards - by outlawing only trafficking in such circumvention
devices that are (inter alia) primarily designed and marketed for
circumvention of effective TPM. Along these lines, at least one
Italian Court has ruled - in one of the Bolzano rulings - that the use
of modified chips aimed at restoring the full functionality of a Sony
PlayStation (incl. its ability to read all discs from all markets
despite region coding) is not illegal under the EUCD's
anti-circumvention provisions. At the EU member state level, France
has taken a much more proactive approach to DRM interoperability. A
draft of the revised copyright law (implementing the EUCD) introduced
an obligation of DRM providers to disclose interoperability
information upon requests without being compensated. This "lex iTunes&quot;
has triggered strong reactions by the entertainment industry, and the
final version of the law softened up the original proposal. Current
French law states that a regulatory authority mediates
interoperability requests on a case-by-case basis. Under this regime,
too, DRM providers can be forced (under certain conditions) to
disclose interoperability information on non-discriminatory terms, but
they now have the right to reasonable compensation in return.

Competition Law

The baseline is: Competition law in Europe may become relevant in
cases where a company with a dominant market position refuses to
license its DRM standard to its competitors. However, to date, there
exists no case law at the EU level where competition law has been
applied to the DRM interoperability problem. But there are important
cases (IMS Health and Magill, but also the anti-trust actions against
Microsoft) illustrating how competition law — at least in exceptional
circumstances — can give the need for interoperability more weight
than the IP claims by dominant players. In France, Virgin Media tried
to use competition law as an instrument to enforce access to iTunes
FairPlay system. The French competition authority, however, has ruled
in favour of iTunes, partly because it considered the market for
probable music players to be sufficiently competitive (click here for
more details).

Consumer Protection

From a consumer protection law perspective, three issues seem
particularly noteworthy. First, the Norwegian Consumer Ombudsman has
been very critical about Apple's iTMS interoperability policy in
response to a complaint by the consumer council. The Ombudsman argues
that iTMS is using DRM and corresponding terms of services to lock its
consumers into Apple's proprietary systems. Second, a French court
fined EMI Music France for selling CDs with DRM protection schemes
that would not play on car radios and computers (check here and here).
EMI violated consumer protection law because it did not appropriately
inform consumers about these restrictions. The court obliged EMI to
label its CDs with the text: "Attention - cannot be listened on all
players or car radios.&quot; Third, a recent proposal by the European
Consumers' Organisation proposes to include DRM in the unfair contract
directive. The idea behind it is that consumer protection authorities
should also be able to intervene against unfair consumer contract
terms if the terms are 'code-' rather than law-based.'

Dr. Gasser's full recap of the hearing can be found on his blog:
<;http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ugasser/2006/11/08/ftc-hearing-drm-interoperability/>

Also, Dr. Gasser, with Silke Ernst of the St. Gallen Research Center
for Information Law, released a digital copyright focused study
entitled "Best Practice Guide: Implementing the EU Copyright Directive
in the Digital Age." In the report, Dr. Gasser and Ms. Ernst propose
specific DRM exceptions and recommendations that may influence future
digital law reform. Their full report is available here:
<;http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/uploads/1112/EUCD_Best_Practice_Guide_December_2006.pdf&gt;

[2] NETWORKED: PAPERS, BOOKMARKS, WEBCASTS, PODCASTS, TAGS, AND BLOGPOSTS

Links to Berkman conversations happening online

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Internet Politics, Governance, and Regulation:

[BLOGPOST] Lawrence Lessig releases Code 2.0, a revision to Code and
Other Laws of Cyberspace.

<http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003633.shtml&gt;

[BLOGPOST] Bill McGeveran heralds arrival of new DMCA exemptions.

<http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2006/11/22/thanksgiving-for-new-dmca-exceptions/>

[ARTICLE] Derek Slater contemplates how Democratic Congress will
impact digital freedom.

<http://www.thephoenix.com/article_ektid27512.aspx&gt;

Citizen Media and the Future of Journalism:

[BLOGPOST] Dan Gillmor reflects on New Media's role in election
coverage. <http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/11/08/a-couple-of-post-election-thoughts/>

[VIDEO] Lisa Williams and Dan Gillmor introduce citizen journalism
project, Placeblogger.net.

<http://media-cyber.law.harvard.edu/VideoBerkman/williams_gillmor_2006-11-07.mp4&gt;

Digital Media:

[VIDEO] Steve Garfield goes behind the scenes at MediaBerkman.
<http://mirror.video.blip.tv/Stevegarfield-HarvardLiveBroadcasts302.mov>

[BLOGPOST] PRX gets a laugh out of comedic program additions.

<http://about.prx.org/archives/000379.php>

[BLOGPOST] Lawrence Lessig evidences Creative Commons' international
application.

&lt;http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/6155>

Internet, Education, and Knowledge:

[AUDIO] Nancy Hafkin leads discussion on female empowerment in the
digital age. <http://media-cyber.law.harvard.edu/AudioBerkman/nancy_hafkin_2006-11-28.mp3>

[BLOGPOST] Rebecca MacKinnon advocates increased attention to social
responsibility on behalf of Internet companies.

<http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2006/11/internet_compan.html>

[BLOGPOST] John Palfrey offers list of online resources for teachers.
<http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2006/10/26/heres-a-group-list-of-resources-online-for-teachers/&gt;

Security and Anonymity:

[BLOGPOST] Tim Armstrong assesses effects of increase in digital
self-disclosure.
<http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2006/11/07/forcing-those-web-skeletons-back-into-the-closet/>

[BLOGPOST] Doc Searls calls for new means of managing Internet identities.

<http://doc.weblogs.com/2006/11/16#thisIsWhyIWantVrm>

[3] Global Voices:

Digital Dose of Global Conversations

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David Sasaki, Global Voices Latin America Regional Editor, put
together the monthly digest below, a collection of links to the most
interesting conversations happening in the global blogosphere. Please
check out Global Voices at <http://www.globalvoicesonline.org> and to
get a taste of their daily highlights, sign up for Global Voices'
daily digest here <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists> or find it
online here http://digests.globalvoicesonline.org/&gt;.

Global Voices editors, translators, and contributing authors from
around the world descended on New Delhi, India this December for their
annual offline conversation. This year's summit focused on how the
community can approach outreach, translation, and tool development to
make the online global conversation more representative of the global
population. In the introductory session co-founders Rebecca MacKinnon
and Ethan Zuckerman looked back at where Global Voices has been and
forward to where it is going.
&lt;http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/16/gv-summit-delhi-06-session-one-gvs-past-present-future/&gt;

For decades now Fidel Castro and Augusto Pinochet have been immortal
lions and opposing icons of Latin America's political legacy. Both of
their deaths have been expected for years, but it was Pinochet who
passed away first, leaving his countrymen and women to debate the
significance of his life and death using a medium we can assume he
never had anticipated during his heavy-handed rule.
<;http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/13/chilean-ex-dictator-augusto-pinochet-dies/>

They are not easy to watch, but cellphone-recorded videos of police
brutality in Egypt are giving rise to a national campaign against
police torture. Sameer Padania documents the movement's history,
actors, and progress.&quot;
<http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/09/egypt-bloggers-open-the-door-to-police-brutality-debate/>

The internet is a big place. And searching for world news from fresh
local voices can seem like an impossible task. Until now. With
Google's Co-op searching technology, Global Voices co-founder Ethan
Zuckerman and tech guru Boris Anthony have developed the "Global
Voices Web" search engine to narrow your results from trusted sources
compiled by GV's regional editors.
<http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/09/global-voices-launches-new-search-function/>;

Salam Adil, dedicated curator of the articulate prose which has risen
from Iraq's harrowing reality, paints a stark portrait of what has
become of his country - as does every post he links to: "Iraq is
bleeding and it seems nothing can be done to end the suffering. Today
I give you stories from the front lines of the new civil war that is
Iraq, without comment. They express themselves well enough.&quot;
<http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/12/02/bleeding-at-the-iraqi-blogodrome/>;

News in China has generally be quiet with all things LGBTQ. That's
lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgendered, queer for those of us lost in
the sea of multilingual acronyms. And so, asks John Kennedy, "if
nothing earth-shattering has been in the news today, why is queer
content getting prime placement&quot; on most of the country's web portals?
"Has queer gone mainstream among China's urban, upwardly-mobile, white
collar, websurfing crowd?&quot;
<http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/11/30/china-queer-blogs-for-the-straight-eye/>

Equal parts recipe for a web 2.0 virtual conference and overview of
Tanzanian citizen media, Ndesanjo Macha reports on the decisions made
at the first ever Tanzanian Bloggers' Virtual Conference.
<http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/11/27/tanzanian-bloggers-virtual-conference-2/>

*** Global Voices, a non-profit global citizens' media project, was
launched from the Berkman Center by Berkman Fellows Rebecca MacKinnon
and Ethan Zuckerman and is sponsored by the Berkman Center, the
MacArthur Foundation, and Reuters. ***

[4] COMMUNITY LINKS:

Featuring our friends and affiliates

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Wikia, Inc., "OpenServing&quot; <http://www.openserving.com/>;

Creative Commons, "CC Labs" <http://labs.creativecommons.org>

Chilling Effects, "Weather Reports&quot; <http://www.chillingeffects.org/weather.cgi>

Center for Democracy and Technology, "Reports and Articles&quot;
<http://cdt.org/publications/articles.php>

Public Library of Science, "PLoS Open Access Resources&quot;
<http://www.plos.org/oa/plosoa.html>

The Public Radio Exchange, "Reviews" < http://prx.org/reviews/>

Overmundo <http://overmundo.com.br/>

[5] UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND EVENTS

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UPCOMING BERKMAN EVENTS

*The 2007 Summer Doctoral Programme will be held at The Berkman Center
in Cambridge, Massachusetts on July 16-27, 2007. Completed
applications must be received by the OII no later than 5pm GMT on
Monday, February 12th, 2007. Successful applicants will be notified by
March 23rd, 2007. The SDP is offered in partnership with The Oxford
Internet Institute. The site reads: "Thirty places are available, open
to students from any discipline who are currently undertaking doctoral
research on social, political, legal and economic issues relating to
the Internet. Preference will be given to students at an advanced
stage of their doctorate, who have embarked on writing their thesis,
and who are working in a research area that corresponds to one of the
OII's research priorities or the Berkman's research priorities." More
information is available at:
<http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/teaching/sdp/Y2007.cfm>;

*Beyond Broadcast 2007 - From Participatory Culture to Participatory
Democracy: February 24, 2007, Cambridge, MA. The MIT Comparative Media
Studies Program, the Yale Information Society Project and Berkman
&quot;invite you to MIT — to explore the means, the message, and the
meaning of the post-midterm, pre-presidential YouTube moment.&quot; Visit
the Beyond Broadcast site to learn more:
<;http://www.beyondbroadcast.net/blog/>

*The Internet & Society 2007 Conference: May 31-June 1, 2007. Please
save the dates; more details are coming soon.

CONFERENCE WATCH: January - February, 2007

*January 8: IJCAI-2007 Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured
Text Data - Hyderabad, India: <http://research.ihost.com/and2007/>

*January 12-14: The National Conference for Media Reform - Memphis,
TN: <http://www.freepress.net/conference/>

*January 18: A Public Forum on Media Ownership - Philadelphia, PA:
<http://www.mediatank.org/>

*January 18: In Their Opinion - A Panel of Media Critics - Cleveland,
OH: <http://www.cityclub.org/content/speakers/SpeakerDetail.aspx?spkID=5421>

*January 19: Reclaiming the First Amendment: A Conference on
Constitutional Theories of Media Reform - Hempstead, N.Y.:
<;http://www.hofstra.edu/Academics/Law/law_conference_mediareform.cfm>

*January 19-21: Conference on Communication Policy Research for
Improving ICT governance in the Asia-Pacific - Manila, Philippines:
<http://www.lirneasia.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/CPRsouth%20Conference%20-%20January%2019-21,%2020071.pdf>

*January 22-February 2: DRM Technologies & Higher Education - an
online workshop:
<http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.html#copyright_education

*January 23-24: Wireless Cities Summit - Toronto, Canada:
&lt;http://www.strategyinstitute.com/012307_wireless_cities/dsp_wireless_cities.php&gt;

*January 23-26: Open Repositories Conference 2007 - San Antonio, TX:
<http://openrepositories.org/&gt;

*January 25-26: The First International Workshop on Intercultural
Collaboration - Kyoto, Japan: <http://langrid.nict.go.jp/iwic2007/>

*January 26: Mobile Identity Workshop - Cambridge, MA:
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Events>

*January 31-February 1: Making Your Documentary Matter 2007 -
Washington, D.C.:
<;http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/publications/2007_mydm_agenda/>

*February 12-14: At The Interface: The Value of Knowledge - Sydney,
Australia: <http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ati/education/tvk/tvk1/cfp.htm>

*February 13-14: FTC Broadband Connectivity Competition Policy
Workshop - Washington, D.c.:
<;http://www.ftc.gov/opp/workshops/broadband/index.html>

*February 13-15: The IASTED International Conference on Software
Engineering - Innsbruck, Austria:
<http://www.iasted.org/conferences/home-552.html>;

*February 14-16: Wainhouse Research Collaboration Summit - Sydney,
Australia: <http://www.wainhouse.com/sydney07/>

*February 18-20: International Association for Development of the
Information Society Web Based Communities 2007 Conference - Salamanca,
Spain: <http://www.webcommunities-conf.org/>

*February 21-23: International Conference on Semantic Web and Digital
Libraries - Bangalore, India:
&lt;http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/icsd/index.html>

*February 22-24: International Conference on Signal Processing,
Communications and Networking - Chennai, India:
&lt;http://www.icscn.org/>

*February 22-23: Alliance for Community Media Midwest Regional
Conference - Minneapolis, MN:
<http://www.alliancecm.org/index.php?page_id=174>;

*February 26-27: Tech Policy Summit - San Jose, CA:
<https://techpolicysummit.com/&gt;

[6] STAYING CONNECTED:

How to find out about Berkman's events and releases
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