伯克曼中心简介编辑本段回目录
哈佛伯克曼互联网与社会中心，是由哈佛大学法学院成立，专注于网络空间中的法律问题研究，是全球领先的知识产权及网络法研究机构，其发起的FFM（Free Flow Media）项目旨在通过技术和法律的手段建立全球网络环境下的作品传播与著作权保护新体系。
伯克曼中心历史编辑本段回目录
1997年伯克曼中心由Jonathan Zittrain和Charlie Nesson教授创办，十多年下来，该中心已经由原先的一个小项目变成了一个颇具规模的跨学科研究中心，成为全球最具影响力的互联网学术研究机构。由伯克曼中心创始人与核心领导出来创办了多家著名的姊妹研究机构，包括斯坦福互联网与社会中心（the Stanford Center for Internet and Society）和牛津互联网学院（the Oxford Internet Institute）等，堪称互联网学术研究的“黄埔军校”。2008年5月15日，在该中心十周年纪念会上，伯克曼中心正式升格为哈佛大学校级研究中心。
伯克曼中心活动和成员编辑本段回目录
伯克曼中心的内容主要包括展开各种前沿的研究项目、主办各种学术会议、招募访问学者等。职员和研究员中包括很多互联网届的重要人物，比如David Weinberger、Ethan Zuckerman、Dave Winer、Jimmy Wales、Rebecca MacKinnon、John Perry Barlow、Wendy Seltzer、James F. Moore、John Clippinger和Doc Searls等，成员包括Charles Nesson、Lawrence Lessig、Jonathan Zittrain、William "Terry" Fisher、John Palfrey和Yochai Benkler。
伯克曼现有研究项目编辑本段回目录
伯克曼项目主要涉及网络空间的法律、知识产权、知识共享、公民权益、社会媒体、公民新闻、网络审查、网络民主、数字鸿沟、全球沟通等等，以下是部分项目简介：
Center for Citizen Media
The Center for Citizen Media is a new initiative aimed at helping to enable and encourage grassroots media, especially citizen journalism, at every level.
Chilling Effects
The Chilling Effects Clearinghouse tracks threats to online expression, cataloging cease-and-desist notices and helping Internet users to understand their rights in response.
Citizen Media Law Project
The Citizen Media Law Project provides legal training and resources for individuals and organizations involved in citizen media.
Cooperation
The Cooperation project is an interdisciplinary community of researchers, projects, and practitioners engaged in studying the underlying factors that contribute to human cooperation.
Copyright for Librarians
The Berkman Center is partnering with eIFL to deliver a distance learning program on copyright for librarians.
Cyberlaw Clinic
The Cyberlaw Clinic provides high-quality, pro-bono legal services to appropriate individuals, small start-ups, non-profit groups and government entities regarding cutting-edge issues of the Internet, new technology and intellectual property. Harvard Law School students enhance their preparation for high-tech practice and earn course credit for working on a variety of real-world litigation, client counseling, advocacy, legislation, and transactional/licensing projects and cases.
Digital Natives
Digital Natives focuses on the key legal, social, and political implications of a generation "born digital" - those who grow up immersed in digital technologies, for whom a life fully integrated with digital devices is the norm. By understanding young people’s interactions with digital media such as internet, cell phones and video games, we may address the issues their practices raise, learn how to harness the opportunities their digital fluency presents, and shape our regulatory and educational frameworks in a way that advances the public interest.
eLangdell : The Legal Ed Commons
eLangdell enables law professors to share valuable teaching resources across a nationwide digital commons.
Freedom To Teach: an Educational Fair Use Project
"FREEDOM TO TEACH": The Berkman Center at Harvard University is considering a project that we hope will culminate in the widespread circulation of a Statement of Best Practices regarding fair use for teachers and scholars in higher education. This posting outlines our current thinking on the project. We post it here for discussion and feedback. --Lewis Hyde, Berkman Fellow, Harvard University; Thomas Professor of Creative Writing, Kenyon College
Global Network Initiative
In partnership with the Center for Democracy and Technology and Business for Social Responsibility, in addition to leading human rights groups, academic institutions, socially responsible investment firms, and internet and communications technology (ICT) companies — including Google, Vodafone, France Telecom, Microsoft, TeliaSonera, and Yahoo! — the Berkman Center has participated in an initiative to protect and advance individuals' rights to free expression and privacy on the Internet through the creation of a set of principles and supporting mechanisms for ICT companies.
Global Voices
Global Voices Online is an online citizen media community dedicated to amplifying independent online voices from outside North America and Europe.
H2O
Our H2O project is building an interlocking collection of communities based on the free creation and exchange of ideas. H2O currently offers "The Rotisserie," which implements an innovative approach to online discussion that encourages measured, thoughtful discourse in a way that that traditional threaded messaging systems often do not.
Herdict
Herdict is a suite of applications that allows users around the world to contribute data relating to PC health and web accessibility. It aggregates individual contributions and seeks to provide real time views of users’ experiences in order to facilitate informed decision making regarding malware and uncensored access to the web.
Internet and Democracy
The Internet and Democracy Project is an initiative that will examine how the Internet influences democratic norms and modes, including its impact on civil society, citizen media, government transparency, and the rule of law, with a focus on the Middle East.
Internet Law Program (iLaw)
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society’s Internet Law Program addresses the most controversial cyberlaw issues being debated by lawmakers in the U.S. and internationally. Taught by world-renowned experts in the field, the program is designed for a diverse audience including leaders in business, technology, law, education, government, media and the non-profit community.
Internet Safety Technical Task Force
The Internet Safety Technical Task Force (ISTTF) is a group of Internet businesses, non-profit organizations, academics, and technology companies that have joined together to identify effective tools and technologies to create a safer environment on the Internet for youth. It was created in February 2008 in accordance with the "Joint Statement on Key Principles of Social Networking Safety" announced by the Attorneys General Multi-State Working Group on Social Networking and MySpace in January 2008. The Task Force submitted its Final Report to the Attorneys General in December, 2008.
Jamaica Project
True to the Berkman Center’s expansive interest in the interaction between internet and society, the Jamaica project’s mission centers on the use of the internet to shape, define and change society and the world around us – and empower others to do the same. It has explored topics from restorative justice, prison reform and Jamaican independence, to self-expression, learning and entrepreneurship.
Media Cloud
Media Cloud is a project that seeks to track news content comprehensively – providing open, free, and flexible tools. This will allow unprecedented quantitative analysis of media trends.
OpenNet Initiative
A collaborative project between the University of Toronto, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, and Harvard Law School, OpenNet Initiative's mission is to identify and document Internet filtering and surveillance, and to promote and inform wider public dialogs about such practices.
ProjectVRM
ProjectVRM seeks to improve markets by equipping customers with tools for both independence from vendors and better engagement with vendors.
Public Radio Exchange
The Public Radio Exchange is an online marketplace for distribution, review, and licensing of public radio programming.
SocialPhysics.org
The goal of SocialPhysics is to give people more control over their digital identities: their online identities, personal information and social relationships.
StopBadware.org
StopBadware.org is a partnership among academic researchers, technology industry leaders, non-profit organizations, and volunteers, all of whom are committed to protecting Internet and computer users from the threats to privacy and security that are caused by bad software.
Surveillance
The Surveillance project is drawing a map of the different forms and impacts of surveillance online. Funded by the MacArthur Foundation and run in collaboration with our partner institutions from the OpenNet Initiative on Internet filtering, the project will explore the various technical, political, and social issues involved in Internet surveillance through its blog, An Eye on Surveillance, and through a series of upcoming research papers.
The Publius Project
The Publius project is a collection of essays and conversations about constitutional moments on the Net.
中心十周年会议编辑本段回目录
在柏克曼中心庆祝成立十周年之际，与会者与来宾共同讨论互联网的未来、政治层面与对全球社群影响，在开幕致词中，柏克曼中心更宣布将成为扩至整个哈佛大学的研究中心。
在全球架构下，John Palfrey讨论到如何帮助古巴民众，绕过各种限制与法律危机，让人们在限制言论自由的国家内尽情书写博客，其中更特别提到柏克曼中心的两个计划：其一是Open Net，负责调查与分析全球各种审查与监视机制，这是四所大学与一群顶尖调查员合作而成。
全球之声为另一项计划，专注于全球博客对话，也包括发声（Rising Voices）等各种相关计划，还有一项则为非选民之声，聚焦全球博客对美国总统大选的看法。
与会者似乎都同意，互联网其实就是人们相互联系，每天同时都在学习互动，其中一项讨论焦点并非言论自由，而是言论的后果，问题常出在个人行为与如何响应他人言论，部分与会者提出：“我们要修正他人吗？”，来自俄罗斯与亚洲的与会者提出了这些疑问。
人们也关心克服问题的新方式，例如电玩便帮助开发中国家社会学习科技与传递技术，以及在古巴分享信息的新发明，另一个例子则为透过Facebook群组，号召哥伦比亚民众对抗游击队，不过如何连上互联网仍是最重要的议题，互联网使用人口有限，不只存在数字落差，更有人民参与落差。压轴讲演则是狱中日记计划代表Kevin Wallen，这也是由发声计划赞助，他叙述计划内容，也强调要帮助底层民众上网、参与及有意愿散播讯息并不容易，他也想知道，如何能更简单与基层人民合作，对世界造成真正的影响。
互联网的未来与柏克曼中心的未来“犹未可知”，但他们能骄傲地说透过行动、透过打破成规，便能真正改变世界。
