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Open Access and the New Net Neutrality forum at SCU June 12, 2008
Open Access and the New Net Neutrality forum June 12 at SCU This forum was organized by the Media Access Project in collaboration with the Broadband Institute of California (Allen Hammond of SCU's Law School and Program Director at the... Continue reading - Jun. 26, 2008 9:20 AM
Digital Race
'Well, they've done it to Betty Crocker at the apogee of civilisation as well as mitochondrial Eve at its incecption - used computer programs to morph their faces into racially blended mixes into which our current differences can be read.... Continue reading - May. 23, 2008 4:34 PM
Biodiversity and Globalization
It's amazing the language that gets used around so-called invasive species. New Jersey refers to the 'alien invaders' amongst us where California talks about "Zebra Mussel Outlaws". In the days since 9/11 a fair amount of the protecting the homeland... Continue reading - May. 5, 2008 8:09 PM
Famine and the Evidence of Experience
I'll get to famine in a few minutes - I'm not quite up to writing about it yet, though the picture here is a token that I will. What got me into this post was a realization that two things... Continue reading - Apr. 22, 2008 4:47 PM
Ubiquitous Information Gathering
These are strange days for entities in the world. Never before have they been so surveilled - and all for their own good. From the furthest reaches of the ocean to the aridest stretches of desert, sensors are recording inormation... Continue reading - Apr. 17, 2008 12:29 PM
Invasive global biotrade disrupts local populations
In 2007, the Light Brown Apple Moth was unexpectedly detected by a retired entomologist in the Berkeley Hills. The LBAM, a native of Australia not previously found in North America, long-feared, had arrived and threatens to become a permanent resident... Continue reading - Apr. 14, 2008 2:26 PM
The Truth According to Wikipedia
VPROinternational of Holland has produced an excellent 48 minute documentary about the controversy surrounding Wikipedia and the greater issue of the role of participatory masses in cultural and knowledge production. There are interviews with Tim O'Reilly who some say coined... Continue reading - Apr. 14, 2008 11:30 AM
Cyberinfrastructure as a Public Good
I leapt out of the car when I saw this shortlived ad campaign (unfortuunately timed to coincide with 9/11) on a mildly dilapidated building near Berkeley. What with bridges falling down in Minnesota and general handwringing about the state of... Continue reading - Apr. 4, 2008 2:46 PM
Rules for Design in the Developing World
The March/April 2008 issue of World Ark, a publication of Heifer International, contains an article entitled, “Designing New Technologies for a Better Life”. It touches on many of the issues regarding the introduction of appropriate technologies in the developing world.... Continue reading - Mar. 28, 2008 2:26 PM
KnowledeX Video Project For Tech Laureates
In November 2007, the twenty five finalists in the Tech Awards were invited to take part in a project where camcorders and tapes were provided so that the Tech Laureates could record local activity and interviews and help plan a... Continue reading - Mar. 27, 2008 4:37 AM

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Long time friend and colleague Steve Cisler passes away in May

As Project Manager for the Center's KnowledeX project, Steve was actively involved in the creation of an innovative online environment for social entrepreneurs in the Technology Benefiting Humanity and Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) programs. Read more»

Dinner Honors Center Advisory Board members including McKenna, Morgan and Coleman

As part of a 10 year anniversary celebration, the Center offered special acknowledgment to McKenna who was celebrating his retirement as board chair after 11 years, "passing the baton" to Coleman. Also recognized was Jim Morgan whose leadership was critical in founding and launching the Center. Read more»

The Center welcomes Andy Lieberman

The Center welcomes Andy Lieberman as the new KnowledeX project manager, an online community of practice for social benefit entrepreneurs, sponsored by Applied Materials. Read more»

The sixth annual social benefit entrepreneur workshop, the Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI), is scheduled for August 17 through August 29

The first project in the KnowledeX Program (funded by Applied Materials Foundation) is to create an online communication and collaboration environment to support and enhance the work of social benefit entrepreneurs.

Pedro Hernández-Ramos, Associate Director of the STS Center, is promoted to Associate Professor

Dr. Allen Hammond, World Resources Institute, will lead community-based water treatment sector in 2008 GSBI class

Vann Addresses Water Governance Practices and Research Methods in Recent Tour

Research Fellow to assist in Science, Religion, and Public Policy programming

Upcoming Events

Global Social Benefit Incubator Business Plan Presentations
THU, AUG 28 - 7:15 a.m.

Jack Gilbert , Director of Biotech and Society, and Chemistry Chair, has received a two-year award from the American Chemical Society

Read more on this and other awards

Center Executive
Director speaks on
his latest book

Hear Bowker podcast on the Library Cafe, about his latest book Memory Practices in the Sciences.

Listen to Radio Interview

Leigh Star, Geof Bowker

The Center is pleased to announce that Susan Leigh Star and Geoffrey C. Bowker have accepted joint editorship responsibility for Science, Technology, and Human Values (ST&HV), an international, multidisciplinary journal containing research and commentary on the development and dynamics of science and technology, including their involvement in politics, society, and culture.
Science, Technology, and Human Values is published six times annually by Sage Publications, and is the official journal of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), from which Dr. Star will completed 2 years of service as President in October 2007.

Hewlett OER Report

The OER report written by: Dan Atkins, Director of Cyberinfrastructure at NSF; John Seely Brown, former Chief Scientist of Xerox PARC; and Allen Hammond, World Resources Institute draws heavily on a report written by Geffrey C. Bowker and colleagues from the University of Michigan on cyberinfrastructure.

OER report

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