Ethan Zuckerman is director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT, and a principal research scientist at MIT’s Media Lab. With Rebecca MacKinnon, Ethan co-founded international blogging community Global Voices. Global Voices showcases news and opinions from citizen media in over 150 nations and thirty languages. Ethan’s research focuses on issues of internet freedom, civic media in the developing world and cosmopolitanism in a digital age. He blogs at http://ethanzuckerman.com/blog and lives in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts.

Reception immediately following in 3rd floor atrium

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The Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) is a research center located on the third floor of Sherrerd Hall that examines the myriad ways that information technology influences society and introduces policy dilemmas. Our work includes privacy and social media, computer security, broadband policy, government transparency, digital rights management, electronic voting and decision-making, online free speech, and much more. Come at 6:30 pm on October 13th to eat, meet current students and faculty, and learn about:

• our new undergrad certificate
• what recent CITP-affiliated undergrads are up to
• how we can help you find internships, jobs, and graduate studies
• research opportunities at the center
• upcoming events
• how to connect with our visiting scholars, who are experts in their fields
• other tech policy connections on campus

Assuming there is sufficient interest, we may also have a Wii Tennis face-off.

1. New Jersey court-ordered election-security measures have not been effectively implemented.
2. There is a reason to believe that New Jersey election officials have destroyed evidence in a pending court case, perhaps to cover up the noncompliance with these measures or to cover up irregularities in this election. There is enough evidence of a cover-up that a Superior Court judge has referred the matter to the State prosecutor’s office.
3. Like any DRE voting machine, the AVC Advantage is vulnerable to software-based vote stealing by replacing the internal vote-counting firmware. That kind of fraud probably did not occur in this case. But even without replacing the internal firmware, the AVC Advantage voting machine is vulnerable to the accidental or deliberate swapping of vote-totals between candidates. It is clear that the machine misreported votes in this election, and both technical and procedural safeguards proved ineffective to fully correct the error.
   

The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Class Day (SEAS)
Reception Friend Lobby, 3:00 p.m.

Presentation of SEAS Awards
Friend Courtyard, 3:15 p.m.

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Bios:

Will DeVries is Policy Counsel for Google, focusing on privacy and consumer protection. In that role, Will works on regulatory and legislative issues ranging from social networking to online advertising to government access to records. He also teaches E-Commerce Law and Information Privacy Law at the George Washington University Law School, and speaks regularly on related topics. Prior to Google, Will worked in the Communications, Privacy and Information Law group at WilmerHale LLP. Will is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.

Heather West is a Policy Analyst for Google, focusing on privacy, free expression, and transparency. In that role, Heather works on regulatory and legislative issues from social networking to online advertising to government data. Prior to Google, Heather worked at the Center for Democracy and Technology.

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In this talk Julie Cohen will discuss the discourse of information policy reform that has been organized principally around the themes of “access to knowledge” and “network neutrality.” Some information policy problems, however, cannot be solved simply by prescribing greater “openness” or more “neutrality.” In particular, the legal specification of information rights and the design of information architectures should be guided by the need to preserve room for play in the use of cultural resources, the performance of identity, and the ongoing adaptation of artifacts to everyday needs.

Bio:
Julie E. Cohen is a Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. She teaches and writes about intellectual property law and privacy law, with particular focus on copyright and on the intersection of copyright and privacy rights in the networked information society. She is the author of Configuring the Networked Self: Law, Code, and the Play of Everyday Practice (Yale University Press, forthcoming 2011) and a co-author of Copyright in a Global Information Economy (Aspen Law & Business, 3d ed. 2010), and is a member of the Advisory Boards of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and Public Knowledge.

This workshop serves to establish a common view on possible Recommendation-track work in the Web privacy and tracking protection space at W3C, and on the coordination needs for such work.

The workshop is expected to attract a broad set of stakeholders, including implementers from the mobile and desktop space, large and small content delivery providers, advertisement networks, search engines, policy and privacy experts, experts in consumer protection, and other parties with an interest in Web tracking technologies, including the developers and operators of Services on the Web that make use of tracking technologies for purposes other than to behavioral advertising.

Topics for discussion include, but are not limited to:

• whether a do not track proposal is advisable, and whether there are other means that would achieve the same or similar ends;
• the benefits and challenges of various browser-based approaches, including tracking protection lists and a do not track user preference;
• additional approaches toward better user privacy in the face of frequent online tracking.

All participants are required to submit a position paper by March 25, 2011. W3C membership is not required to participate in this workshop.

For more details:http://www.w3.org/2011/track-privacy/

China and the United States are two of the leading countries in the world for technology innovation, internet business, and telecommunications. Technology’s rapid evolution is exciting, but it poses challenging policy questions. How does a country best encourage technology innovation in a global marketplace? How do the Chinese and American internet marketplaces differ? What unique policy questions arise on the internet within and between the two countries? What can Americans learn from Chinese expertise in telecommunications and wireless manufacturing? How do these geographically large and diverse countries facilitate broadband buildout and adoption? This event aims to forge bridges between Chinese and American scholars, innovators, and policymakers seeking to better understand their counterparts.

The computer science major (AB or BSE) and the program in applications of computing are extremely flexible and can be stepping stones to grad school and a variety of careers, including high-tech, law, finance, and management consulting.

Come by and discuss the many opportunities.

During 2010, there have been a number of actions taken by various federal agencies relating to web accessibility, including the draft of the new Section 508 regulations from the Access Board (March 2010), the memo from the Office of Management and Budget on Section 508 enforcement (July 2010), and the Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking from the Justice Department, on the accessibility of web information provided by entities covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act (July 2010). This presentation will provide a history of federal policies and enforcement relating to web accessibility for both government and private web sites, detail the relationship between U.S. federal policies and international standards, describe the 2010 activity in web accessibility policy, discuss the problem of compliance and enforcement, and present the results from three data collection efforts related to web accessibility policy.

Jonathan was a panelist on a Washington DC radio show on 10/12/10 discussing web accessibility, both technical and policy. One of the callers into the show was the Assistant Secretary from the Department of Labor.

David Robinson is a Knight Law & Media Scholar at the Yale Law School Information Society Project.

http://citp.princeton.edu/events/lectures/david-robinson/"