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Design Futures Lecture: How to Build a World

Mar 9, 2011, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

This talk is a dispatch from the frontier of world building — future creation and communication — from one of its pioneers. Stuart Candy (a.k.a. the sceptical futuryst) is a designer, consultant, writer, educator, and activist, and the senior foresight and innovation specialist at Arup.

Towards a Citizen Internet: the Opportunity for Civic Software

Mar 9, 2011, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Jennifer Pahlka, founder of Code for America, discusses how hackers and designers can help re-craft government and build a “citizen Internet.”

InfoCamp Berkeley 2011

Mar 5, 2011, 9:00 am to Mar 6, 2011, 5:00 pm

InfoCamp Berkeley is an unconference for anyone interested in user experience, information architecture, interaction design, information management, information design, librarianship, online search, informatics, or related fields.

Technology, Information and Education Seminar

Mar 3, 2011, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Technology & Regulation Symposium

Mar 3, 2011, 8:00 am to 7:00 pm

The 15th annual Berkeley Center for Law & Technology–Berkeley Technology Law Journal Symposium will address the ways that technological developments are transforming the task of regulation.

Surveillance or Security? The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies

Feb 28, 2011, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Susan Landau is a fellow at Harvard University and the author of Surveillance or Security? and Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption.

The Development of Artistic Documents for the Global Village: The Development of Systems Tailored for the Global Village

Feb 25, 2011, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

The Lean Startup: Innovation Through Experimentation

Feb 23, 2011, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Eric Ries is the creator of the Lean Startup methodology and the author of the popular entrepreneurship blog "Startup Lessons Learned".

The Brazilian Model for Free Access

Feb 22, 2011, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Pablo Ortellado Professor of Public Policy University of São Paulo, Brazil

Open Bibliography

Feb 18, 2011, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Open Library, Collections, and Networks

Feb 11, 2011, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

The Social Networks and Archival Context Project

Feb 4, 2011, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Individualized Service Provision and Lessons from Special Education in Finland

Feb 3, 2011, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Technology, Information & Education Seminar, with Dean AnnaLee Saxenian

Using Technology for Social Good

Feb 2, 2011, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

What challenges and opportunities do grassroots civil society organizations face as they use technology to build their capacity, engage their community, and deliver needed programs?

The E-book Wars, Part 2

Jan 28, 2011, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

The E-book Wars, Part 1

Jan 21, 2011, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Making Technology Meaningful: Bridging Research & Practice

Jan 19, 2011, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Dr. Mahad Ibrahim is a 2009 graduate of the School of Information's Ph.D. program. Ibrahim and Dr. Jaspal Sandhu are partners in the Gobee Group, a small, agile consultancy working to develop impact-oriented technology solutions through holistic design approaches. This talk will highlight the Gobee model of linking research and practice through presentation of current social impact engagements.

Showcase: Information Organization Lab

Dec 10, 2010, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Experimental student projects from the Information Organization Lab course. Come see Vannevar Bush’s Memex implemented using Delicious, recipe books powered by microformats, a semantic web news aggregator, a bar crawl heat map, and many more.

Interface Aesthetics: Final Class Exhibition

Dec 6, 2010, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Technology, Democracy, Human Rights, and its Policy Implications for the EU

Dec 3, 2010, 5:00 pm

Marietje Schaake is a Dutch Member of the European Parliament and a founder of the European Parliament Intergroup on New Media and Technology.

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