From anita1 at MIT.EDU Wed May 12 11:19:25 2004 From: anita1 at MIT.EDU (anita chan) Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 11:19:25 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Itself] EVENT: DNA Forensics and Civil Liberties on Friday, May 14 (fwd) Message-ID: Please join us for a public forum on DNA Forensics and Civil Liberties on Friday, May 14 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Starr Auditorium, Belfer. The speakers at the forum are: ? Benjamin Moulton, Executive Director of the American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics Opening remarks ? Christopher Asplen, Smith Alling Lane, former Executive Director of the National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence The International Experience ? Frederick R. Bieber, Harvard Medical School, Co-chair of The Governor?s Commission on the Death Penalty (Massachusetts) Past, present, future of DNA technology ? Kim Herd, U.S. Department of Justice Federal and state DNA databank legislation: developing trends ? Tracey Maclin, Boston University School of Law Issues of race and ethnicity in DNA collections and DNA profiling ? David Lazer, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University DNA and the criminal justice system: consensus and debate Co-sponsors: The American Society for Law, Medicine, and Ethics The National Center for Digital Government, Harvard University (See attached file: DNA.Event.Flier.doc) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: DNA.Event.Flier.doc Type: application/msword Size: 23040 bytes Desc: Url : http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/itself/attachments/20040512/2e55a9b5/attachment.doc From anita1 at MIT.EDU Thu May 13 17:55:58 2004 From: anita1 at MIT.EDU (anita chan) Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 17:55:58 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Itself] Issue Crawling on The Web - May 25 (1.00-2.30 pm) e52-598 (fwd) Message-ID: Legible Networks - Mapping Issues on the Web Tuesday, May 25th, 1:00-2:30pm, at Forester Room (E52-598) Richard Rogers, Professor in Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam and Ford Fellow, will introduce the theory, methods, claims and politics behind the Issue Crawler, server-side network location software that maps and analyses networks of the Web, based on hyperlink analysis. The discussion includes: 1) Networking effects. Has there been a network effect? A network effect may be defined as the uptake of an organizational campaign by an existing network, or the growth of a network around a particular campaign or issue. Examples include the rapid growth of the international campaign to ban landmines, as well as the worldwide protests against the War in Iraq. Examples of intense networking that have yet to yield major social change include the Burma campaigns. Read more. 2) Regional networks. Is there a regional network around an issue? Does global civil society fragment regional civil society? A regional network comprises organizations from a particular region, such as the Caucuses, Central Asia, South Central Europe, or Scandanavia. Whilst the U.S. has its own networks, it has proven difficult to find regional networks without U.S. reliance. 3) Donor effects. Which networks of organizations around issues hold together if donors and/or intergovernmental organizations are removed? Certain actors may understand a donor-free network, or cluster, as more authentic. Vie w case study maps. 4) No Internet. Mapping issues in regions with low connectivity, low Internet penetration. Which issues in countries or regions with low connectivity resonate the most on the Internet? Are these the most relevant issues on the ground? What is the networks' understanding of the issues in, say, the Fergana Valley (Uzbekistan)? View case study maps 1 2. 5) Network Evolution. HIV-AIDS in Russia. Which organizations have risen (and which fallen) in significance over the past two years, within the HIV-AIDs networks in Russia and Ukraine? What conclusions may be drawn about the type of information on offer from these network dynamics? We found that despite international funding of sex-related HIV-AIDs information agencies, the intravenous-drug-use information providers, in Russia, are still the most significant in the networks. Vi ew case study map (pdf). 6) A virtual society? Interpenetration of the online and the offline. Does the information available online overlap significantly with the offline? For example, are newspaper accounts of whats going on similar to the networks accounts? Read more. 7) Doing without news? Has my initiative (which received press attention) resonated as well in the broader issue network? We may have a press strategy. Do we need a network strategy? Read more. 8) Do networks have preferred formats? Which formats circulate best in networks? What does a network do with a press release? What does it do with a tool or a prize? Read more (pdf). Software introduction: http://www.govcom.org/scenario s_use.html Sample maps: http://www.govcom.org/drafts.html Articles: http://www.govcom.org/full_list.html Mapping workshops: http://www.issuenetwork.org (next workshop: 21-24 June 2004, Amsterdam) Web Issue Index of Civil Society: http://www.infoid.org Richard Rogers is author of Technological Landscapes (Royal College of Art, 1999), editor of Preferred Placement: Knowledge Politics on the Web (Jan van Eyck, 2000), author of the forthcoming book, Information Politics on the Web (MIT Press, 2004). He also has written extensively on the history of the Channel Tunnel. -- Karim R. Lakhani MIT Sloan | The Boston Consulting Group Mobile: +1 (617) 851-1224 http://spoudaiospaizen.net http://web.mit.edu/lakhani/www | http://opensource.mit.edu