It was a pleasure podcasting with Jonathan Zittrain at Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Jonathan is visiting professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School and co-founder and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center. We discuss his new book The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It and important work underway at the OpenNet Initiative. The provocative thesis underlying his book is arriving at a significant time in history of the Internet. Thanks Jonathan!

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I met a wonderful Berkman Center fellow earlier this month, Victoria Stodden, at the Harvard Business School-MIT conference on open and distributed innovation. Victoria will be doing interesting work with the Internet and Democracy Project at the Berkman Center … she stopped by and shared her thoughts at the conference. Good luck Victoria!

SOURCE: OpenNet Initiative – Global Internet Filtering

Jonathan Zittrain on The Charlie Rose Show

Jonathan Zittrain and I also touch base in the podcast about Herdict Web Project.

It’s great to catch up with Milton Chen and learn about his experience with the Fulbright New Century Scholars Program and the exciting efforts at the George Lucas Educational Foundation. We discuss his Fulbright research, Glow Scotland, and Mr. Lucas Goes to Washington.

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I found my visit awhile back at Skywalker Ranch for Internet summit insightful and enjoyed conversations with Foundation staff and colleagues in the Silicon Valley.

Cool photo of summit attendees in front of Skywalker Ranch main house.

“Lucas, a filmmaker and chairman of The George Lucas Educational Foundation, testified before the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet that Congress should expand and modernize its twelve-year-old program of telecom discounts to schools and libraries. To achieve his vision of Edutopia, in which students direct their own learning while teachers nurture their curiosity, he said, the ultimate goal should be to make these connections for every school and library not just more affordable, but free.” More here…