http://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/news/Recent news from Program on Liberation Technologyen-usPublic domainhttp://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/images/feed-icon-48x48.jpghttp://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/news/60http://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/news/3456New York University Professor Helen Nissenbaum outlined her approach to evaluating concerns about pervasive loss of online privacy at the March 8 Liberation Technology Seminar.]]>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/news/3456?rsshttp://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/news/3455During the Liberation Technology Seminar on March 1, Joshua Blumenstock, a Ph.D. candidate at U.C. Berkeley’s School of Information, demonstrated the use of “big data” to explore the economic impact of mobile phone technologies in sub-Saharan Africa.]]>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/news/3455?rsshttp://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/news/3454During the Feb. 16 Liberation Technology Seminar, five teams from Stanford University’s John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship program shared their ideas on using technology to push the boundaries of journalism.]]>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/news/3454?rsshttp://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/news/3453Kathleen Reen, vice president for Asia and New Media programs at Internews, delivered the Feb. 9 Liberation Technology Seminar on the topic of "Strategies and Support for a Global Open Internet."]]>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/news/3453?rsshttp://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/news/3328In an opinion piece for The New York Times on Feb. 4, Evgeny Morozov declares the days of cyberspace exploration over, snuffed out by the world of social media and search engine optimization.]]>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/news/3328?rsshttp://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/news/3452On Jan. 19, David Wolman contributing editor to Wired magazine, presented his new book The Instigators about Egypt’s youth activists at the Liberation Technology Seminar Series.]]>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/news/3452?rsshttp://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/news/3451Rebecca MacKinnon, the Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, delivered the inaugural lecture for the Liberation Technology Seminar Series on Jan. 12 on the topic of Internet freedom and governance.]]>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/news/3451?rsshttp://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/news/3275The Liberation Technology Seminar Series for the winter quarter features an impressive array of speakers.]]>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/news/3275?rsshttp://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/news/3299Jeff Klingner, computer science consultant at Benetech, delivered Dec. 8 Liberation Technology Seminar on the topic of collecting, protecting, and analyzing human rights data.]]>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/news/3299?rsshttp://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/news/3298On Dec. 1, Evgeny Morozov visiting scholar at CDDRL's Program on Liberation Technology delivered a seminar on the current state of the Internet and the democracy debate after the Arab Spring.]]>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/news/3298?rsshttp://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/news/3228The November 17 Liberation Technology Seminar was co-hosted by the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), a nonpartisan economic policy research organization that unites remarkable economic talent from all parts of Stanford University. This seminar featured four student-led design projects that were created in the Designing Liberation Technologies course taught each spring at Stanford's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school) by professors' Josh Cohen and Terry Winograd.]]>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/news/3228?rsshttp://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/news/3211Danny O'Brien led the Nov. 10 Liberation Technology seminar on the topic, “Reports from the Bleeding Edge: What Journalism in Syria, China and Iran tell us about Silicon Valley's Future”. O'Brien is the Internet Advocacy Coordinator at Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), which was founded in New York in 1981 with the aim of defending individual journalists worldwide.]]>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/news/3211?rsshttp://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/news/3210Paul Kim, the assistant dean for technology & CTO at Stanford University's School of Education, led the Nov. 3 Liberation Technology Seminar Series on “Global Inequalities, Achievement Gaps, and Mobile Innovations.” Kim has been reconceptualizing the whole education system, with a particular focus on the education of children in deprived areas.]]>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/news/3210?rsshttp://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/news/3178The Program on Liberation Technology at Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law is building a ‘Constitution Explorer’ website that will host a structured database of constitutions to enable people to compare and contrast other countries' constitutions as they undergo their own national projects for constitutional change.]]>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/news/3178?rsshttp://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/news/3184Sam Gregory, program director at WITNESS
 and Bryan Nunez, technology manager at Witness, delivered the Oct. 27 Liberation Technology seminar entitled, “Cameras Everywhere: Meeting the Challenges at the intersection of Human Rights, Video and Technology.”]]>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/news/3184?rss