Berkman Center for Internet & Society
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| Motto | Exploring cyberspace, sharing in its study & pioneering its development. |
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| Formation | 1998 |
| Type | Technology research center |
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| Website | cyber.harvard.edu |
The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society is a research center at Harvard University that focuses on the study of cyberspace. Founded at Harvard Law School, the center traditionally focused on internet-related legal issues. On May 15, 2008, the Center was elevated to an interfaculty initiative of Harvard University as a whole. It is named after the Berkman family, who owned the communications company The Associated Group (later sold to Liberty Media). On July 5, 2016, the Center added "Klein" to its name following a gift of $15 million from Michael R. Klein, chairman of the Sunlight Foundation.
Sister centers started or inspired by Berkman Klein founders include the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, Oxford Internet Institute, and Bilgi University Institute of Information and Technology Law. Partner institutions, such as the NEXA Center for Internet and Society at the Polytechnic University of Turin in Italy, Zhejiang University of Media and Communications (ZUMC) Center for Internet and Society, and the Bangalore Centre for Internet & Society, have also been founded since the launch of the Berkman Klein Center.
The Berkman Klein Center was founded in 1998 by professors Jonathan Zittrain and Charlie Nesson, along with recent Harvard Law School graduates David Marglin and Tom Smuts. Since then, it has grown from a small project within Harvard Law School to a major interdisciplinary center at Harvard University. The Berkman Klein Center seeks to understand how the development of Internet-related technologies is inspired by the social context in which they are embedded and how the use of those technologies affects society in turn. It seeks to use the lessons drawn from this research to inform the design of Internet-related law and pioneer the development of the Internet itself. The Berkman Klein Center sponsors Internet-related events and conferences, and hosts numerous visiting lecturers and research fellows.
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