Berkman Center Luncheon Series with Rob Faris and John Palfrey
Tuesday, April 24, 12:30 pm
Berkman Center Conference Room
23 Everett Street, Second Floor, Cambridge, MA
Guests: Rob Faris and John Palfrey
Topic: Access Denied: the Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering
In May, the OpenNet Initiative (ONI) will host a public conference at the University of Oxford “to discuss the current state of play of Internet filtering worldwide.”
As a prelude to this landmark event, Rob Faris and John Palfrey will lead a discussion of Internet filtering and provide a glimpse of the results of ONI’s first global survey of Internet censorship. In the last year ONI has studied forty countries and found a substantial increase in Internet censorship, colored by complex and dynamic political, legal and social processes. The research will be documented in the forthcoming MIT Press book: Access Denied: the Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering.
Rob Faris is the ONI Research Director. John Palfrey is one of the project’s Principal Investigators.
The OpenNet Initiative is a partnership between the Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, the Advanced Network Research Group at the Cambridge Security Programme at Cambridge University, and the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford.
John Palfrey’s Bio
Rob Faris’ Bio
This event will be webcast live. Webcast viewers can join the discussion through IRC text chat or in the virtual world Second Life. For information about our event webcasts and remote participation. If you miss the live chat, catch the podcast audio & video at MediaBerkman. Lunch is provided to those who RSVP. Please email rsvp at cyber.law.harvard.edu
