Seminar on Liberation Technology Seminar on Liberation TechnologyComputer Science 546, Political Science 337S
Instructors: Joshua Cohen, Larry Diamond, and Terry Winograd
The Liberation Technology Seminar Series presents a variety of speakers on the role of information and communication technology in advancing freedom, human rights, and economic and social development. For more details see Liberation Technology Seminar Series.
For a full listing of Liberation Technology Program events, see http://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/events/
12-Jan-2012, Rebecca MacKinnon, New America Foundation,
Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom19-Jan-2012, David Wolman, Journalist,
Digital Dissidents: Inside Egypt's Youth Movement, 2008—201226-Jan-2012, Jeremy Weinstein, Political Science and Liberation Technology, Stanford University,
Opening up Government2-Feb-2012, Christopher Painter, U.S. State Department,
Combating Cyber Insecurity Around the Globe9-Feb-2012, Kathleen Reen, VP for Asia and New Media Programs at Internews,
Strategies and Support for a Global Open Internet16-Feb-2012, Knight fellows, Stanford,
An Evening With the Knights23-Feb-2012, Jillian York, Electronic Frontier Foundation,
Tools of Change: How the Internet Helped Shape the Arab Spring1-Mar-2012, Joshua Blumenstock, PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley
Calling for Help: Using Big Data to Understand the Implications of the “Mobile Phone Revolution”8-Mar-2012, Helen Nissenbaum, Philosophy, NYU,
Respect for Context15-Mar-2012, Karthik Muralidharan, Economics, UCSD,
Implementing a Biometric Payment System:The Andhra Pradesh Experience
Sep 29, 2011 - Vivek Srinivasan, Stanford Program on Liberation Technologies
Liberation Technology- Introduction to Series,Oct 6, 2011 - Andrew McLaughlin, Stanford Law School, visiting
Cybersecurity, Free Speech, and SovereigntyOct 13, 2011 - Joshua Stern, Envaya,
The Last Mile: Grassroots Development and Technology in AfricaOct 20, 2011 - Ramesh Srinivasan, UCLA,
Layers of Networks: How the Street, Institutions, and Mediascape Converge in EgyptOct 27, 2011 - Sam Gregory, Bryan Nunez, Witness
Cameras Everywhere: Meeting the Challenges at the Intersection of Human Rights, Video and TechnologyNov 3, 2011 - Paul Kim, Stanford University
Global Inequalities, Performance Gaps, and Mobile InnovationsNov 10, 2011 - Danny O'Brien, Committee to Protect Journalists
Reports from the Bleeding Edge: What Journalism in Syria, China and Iran tell us about Silicon Valley's FutureNov 17, 2011 - Nan Zhang; Jess Auerbach; Risa Kitagawa; Sunny Jeon, Stanford Liberation Technologies,
Designing Liberation TechnologiesDec 1, 2011 - Evgeny Morozov, Stanford University Liberation Technologies Fellow
After the Arab Spring: The Current State of the Internet & Democracy Debate
Dec 8, 2011 - Jeff Klingner, Benetech
Collecting, Protecting, and Analyzing Human Rights Data
31-Mar - Manish Gupta, Director, IBM Research, India
Challenges and Opportunities for CS and Multi-disciplinary Research in Emerging Economies like India14-Apr - Nathan Wyeth, Director of FrontlineSMS:Credit in Nairobi, Kenya
Mobile Money - Realizing the Potential for Impact
6-Jan - Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law, Harvard Business School
Minds for Sale13-Jan - Yochai Benkler, Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies, Harvard Law School
A Tale of Two Blogospheres20-Jan - Vivek Srinivasan, Program on Liberation Technology, Stanford University
Designing Technology to Combat Corruption27-Jan - Jennifer Bussell, Assistant Professor of Public Affairs, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas, Austin
Corrupt States: Reforming Indian Public Services in the Digital Era3-Feb - Lakshmi Subramanian, Assistant Professor in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, University of New York
Information Access under Poor Connectivity10-Feb - Katherine Hoffmann, Sunny Jeon, M.A. Candidate, International Policy Studies, Global Health, Stanford University Ph.D. Candidate,Political Science, Stanford University
Can ICT Improve Clean Water Delivery Systems in Slums? Lessons from Kibera24-Feb - Clay Shirky - New York University, Olivia Ma - News Manager at YouTube, Marc Lynch - George Washington University,
Blogs and Bullets: Social Media and the Struggle for Political Change3-Mar - Archon Fung, Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy & Citizenship, Harvard Kennedy School
Why Technology Has Not Revolutionized Politics, but How It Can Give a Little Help to Our Friends10-Mar - Philip N. Howard, Associate Professor of Information, Communication and International Studies, University of Washington
The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
23-Sep - Josh Cohen, Terry Winograd, Professor of Political Science, Philosophy and Law, Stanford University Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
Mobile Development Meets Design Thinking30-Sep - Chris Spence, Chief Technical Officer National Democratic Institute
Seize the Day, Seize the Data: Tech-Enabled Moments of Opportunity in Closed Societies7-Oct - Daniel Colascione, Evgeny Morozov, Formerly, Technology Director, Censorship Research Center Visiting Scholar,Stanford University
Lessons from the Haystack Affair14-Oct - Catie Snow Bailard, Assistant Professor of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University
Mobile Phone Diffusion and Corruption in Africa21-Oct - Barbara Simons, Former President, Association for Computing Machinery
Internet Voting: An Idea Whose Time Has NOT Come28-Oct - Jenna Burrell, Assistant Professor, Berkeley iSchool
The Moral Economy of the Mobile Phone in Rural Uganda4-Nov - Joshua Goldstein, Phd Candidate, Woodrow Wilson School, Center for Information Technology at Princeton University
Making Gov 2.0 Work in Africa: The Case of Kibera11-Nov - Matt Harrison, Founder and Executive Editor,The Prometheus Institute
Mobile Technology and the Evolution of the Nation-State18-Nov - Mark Lemley, Stanford Law School
Is the Sky Falling on the Content Industries?2-Dec - Nathan Eagle, CEO of TxtEagle Inc/ Visiting Assistant Professor, MIT
What Would You Like 2.1 Billion People to Do for You Today?
7-Jan - Jussi Impio, Research Leader, Nokia Research Africa
User Research in Africa14-Jan - Elizabeth Eagen, Joint Program Officer, Open Society Institute in the Information Program and the Human Rights and Governance Grants Program
Human Rights, Evidence-based Policymaking, and Donor support for Technology Innovation21-Jan - Ethan Zuckerman, Berkman Center Fellow, Harvard Law School
Citizen Media and Global Attention; Will Blogs and twitter change Who Speaks Online?28-Jan - Megan Smith, Vice President, New Business Development, and General Manager, Google.org
Liberation Through Interconnection4-Feb - Barbara van Schewick, Assistant Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
The FCC's Open Internet Proceeding - Implications for Political Speech11-Feb - Eric Brewer, Professor, Computer Science, UC Berkeley
Technology for Developing Regions18-Feb - Firoze Manji, Founder and Executive Director, Fahamu
The Challenges of Using New Media to Support Social Justice Movements in Africa25-Feb - Kentaro Toyama, Researcher, School of Information, UC Berkeley
Ten Myths of Technology and Development4-Mar - Rebecca McKinnon, Visiting Fellow, Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University
Inconvenient Truths11-Mar - Bill Thies, Researcher, Technologies for Emerging Markets Group, Microsoft Research India
Leveraging Familiar Technologies for Citizen Journalism, Education, and Healthcare in India
24-Sep - Jonathan Zittrain, Co-founder and Faculty Co-director: Berkman Center for internet and Society, Harvard Law School
Minds for Sale1-Oct - Lucky Gunasekara, Tom Wiltzius, Students in Stanford Medical School and Computer Science Department
FrontlineSMS:Medic - Democratizing mHealth for the Developing World on Their terms not Ours8-Oct - Evgeny Morozov, Yahoo Fellow, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University
Authoritarian Governments in Cyberspace15-Oct - Tapan Parikh, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley; affiliate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Washington
Giving Farmers a Voice22-Oct - Peter Semmelhack, Founder and CEO, BugLabs, New York
The Next Hardware Revolution - You Build it Yourself29-Oct - Matt Halprin, Stephen King, Omidyar Network
Using Technology to Catalyze Large-scale Social Change5-Nov - Ken Banks, kiwanja.net
Mobile technology: Empowering the Grassroots12-Nov - Jenny Aker, Assistant Professor, Fletcher School, Tufts University
Mobile Phones and Economic Development in Africa19-Nov - Patrick Meier, Fletcher School of Law, Tufts University
The Impact of Technology Access on Protest Frequency in Authoritarian Regimes3-Dec - Kim Scott, Director, AdSense Online Sales and Operations, Google
Potential Misuses of the Internet in a Dystopic World
11-Mar - Scott Rozelle, Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow at Stanford University
Information Technology and Education in China: Can We Use Experiments to Evaluate Programs and Assess Technologies?21-Apr - David Cohen, Michael Goldsby, David Cohen - Director of the War Crimes Studies Center and the Sidney and Margaret Ancker Distinguished Professor for the Humanities at UC Berkeley Michael Goldsby- Department of Computer Science at UC Berkeley
From Archiving to Legacy: The Virtual Tribunal Project at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal7-May - Patrick Ball, Director of Human Rights program, Benetech
Information Knowledge and Truth: Replacing Secrecy, Ignorance and Myth in the Wake of Atrocity28-May - Dara O'Rourke, Associate professor of environmental and labor policy, University of California at Berkeley
Goodguide: An Experiment in Advancing Transparency in Consumer Markets
20-Nov - B.J. Fogg, Director, Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab
Mass Interpersonal Persuasion5-Aug - David Dill, Professor of Computer Science, Stanford
Electronic voting -- a potentially unliberating technology4-Dec - Neil Patel and Neema Moraveji, Stanford PhD students in Education and Computer Science
The Challenge and the Hope: Experiences designing information systems for rural populations8-Jul - Jeremy Weinstein, Professor of Political Science, Stanford
Policing politicians