http://cddrl.stanford.edu/Recent news, events + publications from CDDRLen-usPublic domainhttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/images/feed-icon-48x48.jpghttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/60http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/2141CDDRL is now accepting applications for the 2010-2011 Hewlett Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2010-2011 Program on Global Justice/Center on Ethics in Society Postdoctoral Fellowship, and 2010 Draper Hills Summer Fellowship on Democracy and Development.]]>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/2141http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/2138Summary for the October 22nd class. Peter Semmelhack, founder of BugLabs,spoke about his company’s goal to make hardware as malleable as software, freeing people to create the devices that meet their needs and improve quality of life. While the Open Source movement has enabled rapid progress in the field of software in recent years, hardware innovation lags behind. The way that hardware products come to market is time consuming and expensive for all. A number of factors mean that only big multinational players tend to be able to survive in this space:]]>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/2138http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/2135Summary of the October 8th class. Evgeny Morozov's ,Yahoo! fellow at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, presentation sought to challenge a number of assumptions that are often made about the relationship between the web, nation states and democracy.]]>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/2135http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/2133Summary of the September 24th class Jonathan Zitrain's presentation raised a number of concerns about current trends in online behavior. He suggested that these developments may undermine the practice of ‘civic technologies’, where unconnected individuals voluntarily come together to achieve something they could not do individually.]]>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/2133http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/2114In a new Stanford endeavor, FSI's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law has joined with the Bowen H. McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society to launch an interdisciplinary Program on Human Rights. Introducing its latest program, CDDRL Director Larry Diamond noted that "today's human rights interact with a number of other urgent global issues including climate change, immigration, security, women's rights, poverty, and child soldiers" to name but a few. The campus-wide Human Rights Program builds on the work of CDDRL's Program on Global Justice by bridging the normative and the empirical.]]>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/2114http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/2137Summary of the October 15th class. Tapan Parikh, of UC Berkeley School of Information, spoke about a number of projects that are using mobile phone based technology to give small businesses the information they need to improve productivity. He argued that voice technology has distinct advantages over text, because it overcomes challenges of illiteracy while responding to a strong need people feel to be heard.]]>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/2137http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/2109As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met in Moscow with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, a host of issues were on the table: a new treaty to reduce nuclear arms, efforts to halt nuclear proliferation, and how to address Iran's nuclear program effectively. CDDRL Deputy Director Kathryn Stoner-Weiss provides the context for a re-set of relations with Russia and identifies areas where we might see stepped-up cooperation.]]>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/2109http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/2134Summary of the October 1st class. Lucky Gunasekara, a student at Stanford's School of Medicine, and Tom Wiltzius, a student in Stanford's Computer Science program, took us through the rationale behind working with mobile phones and the content of their project working with health workers in Malawi.]]>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/2134http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/2093Seven new books have been released by CDDRL affiliated faculty members Joshua Cohen, James Fishkin, Michael McFaul, Kathryn Stoner-Weiss, Joshua Teitelbaum, and Jeremy Weinstein.]]>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/2093http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/2073FSI's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law has launched a new Program on Good Governance and Political Reform in the Arab World, the result of a generous gift from the Foundation for Reform and Development in the Middle East, in Geneva, Switzerland. The program will examine the social and political dynamics within Arab societies and the evolution of political systems, with an eye on the prospects, conditions, and pathways for political reform. Thanking the Foundation, CDDRL Director %people1% said, "This gift puts Stanford on the map in contemporary Arab studies and will make CDDRL one of the most important academic sites for studying these issues."]]>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/2073http://cddrl.stanford.edu/events/5916Open to Stanford faculty, students, staff, and visiting scholars (RSVP required)
Bryan Horrigan, Louis Waller Chair of Law and Associate Dean (Research), Monash University’s Faculty of Law in Melbourne, Australia]]>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:37:17 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/events/5916http://cddrl.stanford.edu/events/5806Open to Stanford faculty, students, staff, and visiting scholars (RSVP required)
Jakob Tolstrup, Visiting Researcher, CDDRL]]>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:38:25 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/events/5806http://cddrl.stanford.edu/events/5879Open to the public
Jenny Aker, Assistant Professor, Fletcher School, Tufts University]]>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:18:27 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/events/5879http://cddrl.stanford.edu/events/5905Open to the public
Rajan Menon, Professor, International Studies, Lehigh University]]>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:40:03 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/events/5905http://cddrl.stanford.edu/events/5843Open to Stanford faculty, students, staff, and visiting scholars (RSVP required)
Aqil Shah, Hewlett Fellow, CDDRL]]>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:42:35 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/events/5843http://cddrl.stanford.edu/events/5880Open to the public
Patrick Meier, Fletcher School of Law, Tufts University]]>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:17:47 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/events/5880http://cddrl.stanford.edu/events/5917RSVP Required (RSVP required)
Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, Professor of History, Georgetown University]]>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:05:38 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/events/5917http://cddrl.stanford.edu/events/5799Open to the public
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Michele Tertilt, Assistant Professor, the Department of Economics, Stanford University]]>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:07:26 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/events/5861http://cddrl.stanford.edu/events/5881Open to the public
Kim Scott, Director AdSense Online Sales & Operations, Google]]>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:53:08 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/events/5881http://cddrl.stanford.edu/publications/22706Columbia University Press, September 2009
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