MediaBerkman

There’s been much discussion of open access to information, but that doesn’t mean much to people who don’t have access to the network at all. This working group addressed the role University can play in addressing digital divide issues, and how those issues relate to the other topics of openness.

Facilitators: Nolan Bowie (Senior Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government)

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Nolan Bowie Berkman Center and Kennedy School fellow and adjunct lecturer, reminded the first panel that there are more illiterate people in the world than there are people who use the Internet. He asked them how public media can be truly public if it is only online. Berkman Center’s Amanda Michel asked him whether today’s public media truly is ‘public,’ and, if it were, what it would look like.

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This interview was recorded at the Beyond Broadcast conference on May 12, 2006 at the Harvard Law School.

Attribution: Music from this episode of AudioBerkman was sampled from a track by cdk titled Travel (taking the high rhodes mix).