DESTIN Guest Lecture Series
Date: Friday 13 October 2006
Time: 4pm
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre
Speaker: Jonathan Zittrain
"Many in the development community are sceptical of the One Laptop Per Child Program, which endeavours to develop specialty laptops for millions of children in the developing world. I believe that this program could prove critical, and much depends on what actually ends up on its PCs. The hardware we use to access the Internet can determine what we can and can't do there, and I believe it will be an important determinant of the Internet's future in the developed world as well, as Blackberries and iPods vie with more generative PCs for consumer attention."
Jonathan Zittrain holds the Chair in Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University and is a principal of the Oxford Internet Institute. He is also the Jack N. & Lillian R. Berkman Visiting Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School, where he co-founded its Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education. He has recently co-authored a study of Internet filtering by national governments, and is writing a book about the future of the now-intertwined Internet and PC. Papers may be found here|.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.
For further information contact Kenneth Shadlen, E-mail K.Shadlen@lse.ac.uk|
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