Charlie Nesson, one of the founders of the Berkman Center, asks us to consider who we are, and what is our public space. The query… Read More »Charlie Nesson and a new vision of the public domain

Herbert Burkert of the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland teaches internet law and heads a center at St. Gallen that parallels the work we… Read More »Hubert Burkert – moving beyond the metaphor

Adam Greenfield is the principal designer of Urbanscale, a design firm that focuses on design for networked cities and citizens. He’s interested in the challenge… Read More »Data, the city and the public object

Latanya Sweeney urges us to rethink the challeges of privacy. She’s worked in the space for ten years and tells us that thinking about privacy… Read More »Latanya Sweeney and rethinking transparency

Urs Gasser, the director of the Berkman Center, opens the Hyper-public conference with a discussion of a privacy ruling in his native Switzerland. Swiss data… Read More »Walls and thresholds – physical metaphors at Hyper-public