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Craig Newmark: Social Entrepreneurship

Craig Newmark spoke at the UC Berkeley School of Information’s Social Entrepreneurship in ICTD course. The lecture is part of the RiOS Institute – iSchool New Wave Social ICT Impact Lecture series.
Audio of this event is available in MP3.
What can we in the Social Entrepreneurship and ICT for Development field learn from [...]

Malamud on “(Re-)Defining the Public Domain”

Carl Malamud gave today’s Distinguished Lecture at the UC Berkeley School of Information entitled, “(Re-)Defining the Public Domain”. Audio of the event is here and some pictures are here.
It was a fascinating talk — almost a performance of sorts — where Malamud described efforts to increase the public domain along the three branches [...]

Churchill on “When Worlds Collide”

Elizabeth Churchill gave the fourth Information and Design Lecture Series today on “When Worlds Collide: Designing social networking services that span physical and digital places.” Link here for the audio podcast and read the abstract below:
“In this age where QWERTY communication and point-and-click are implied when I say social networking, face to face can [...]

Kapor on Disruptive Innovations (part I)

Mitch Kapor gave the second UC Berkeley School of Information Distinguished Lecture of Fall 2007 today entitled, “Disruptive Innovations I Have Known and Loved – Part 1: The Personal Computer”. Here is the audio (mp3) and here is the abstract:
A comparative look at the origins, development, and impact of major information technology platforms [...]