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Dear colleagues,<br>
I want to share with you this excellent initiative lunched by the
Berkman Center <br>
I hope that you can participate in proposing your ideas.<br>
Khaled<br>
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Stark</b> <span dir="ltr"></span><br>
Date: Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:58 PM<br>
Subject: Harvard/Stanford Call for Ideas for a Better Internet,
Submission Deadline 4/15<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">The Berkman Center at Harvard
University and Stanford Law School are pleased to announce a
new initiative in which we invite the world to submit their
'Ideas for a Better Internet.' We are seeking out brief
proposals from anyone with ideas as to how to improve the
Internet. Students at Harvard and Stanford will work through
early next year to implement the ideas selected. Interested
parties should submit their ideas at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://bit.ly/i4bicfp" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/i4bicfp</a> by
Friday, April 15. Please spread the word far and wide, and
follow us on Twitter at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://twitter.com/Ideas4BetterNet" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/Ideas4BetterNet</a>.</div>
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The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at
Harvard University and Stanford Law School are
pleased to announce 'Ideas for a Better Internet,' a
joint initiative aimed at fostering innovation
around the most pressing issues currently facing the
Internet. We invite anyone — interested individuals,
scholars, entrepreneurs, organizations, and others
with great ideas — to submit a proposal.</div>
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We are looking for proposals that will make the
Internet more secure, more accessible, more
open, or just plain better — ideas that
recognize the interactions of law, policy,
business, and code and expand on the notion that
the Internet is a global information network.
Proposals might address problems in data
security, Internet infrastructure, digital
literacy, or anything else, so long as they
address the ultimate goal of making the Internet
a better place for everyone. We also believe
that the Internet can be a force for positive
social change; to that end, we are interested in
proposals that use the Internet's power to solve
problems offline.</div>
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<div>Over the next eight months, technology-focused
Harvard and Stanford students will select and help
implement several of the submitted proposals. We
will collaborate with high-profile Internet
entrepreneurs, policy-makers, and other interested
parties to bring the best ideas to fruition. This
is an unprecedented opportunity for developers,
designers, innovators, hackers, social engineers,
and anyone else committed to improving the
Internet to connect with a wide-ranging,
interdisciplinary group of stakeholders who will,
over the course of a yearlong seminar, implement
and launch an idea that will help change the
Internet for the better.</div>
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<div>This initiative is not a standard technology
venture contest focused just around raising
capital and generating publicity. We hope,
rather, to guide the selected proposal through a
holistic process that seeks to connect projects
with advisors, funders and collaborators who can
make them happen from a legal, logistical,
conceptual, and technological perspective.</div>
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<div>WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?</div>
<div>Does the solution meaningfully contribute to
building a better Internet? </div>
<div>Does it enhance openness, accessibility,
security, or something else of value to the
public? </div>
<div>Does the solution effectively respond to a
particular problem or need? </div>
<div>What, realistically, will the project change
about the Internet? How significant will the
change be? </div>
<div>Does the proposal account for realistic
challenges and constraints? </div>
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<div>ELIGIBILITY</div>
<div>This call for proposals is open to any person
or group with an idea for a better Internet and
the willingness to work through a project if it
is selected by the seminar. </div>
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<div>DEADLINE</div>
<div>All proposals must be submitted by 12:00 PM
PT on Friday, April 15, 2011. </div>
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<div>TIMELINE</div>
<div>Finalists will be promptly notified following
a panel review of submissions. Winning proposals
will be selected by May 1. The implementation
process will continue through 2011, and will
culminate in a public demonstration of the
project before leading scholars, policy-makers,
and entrepreneurs in early 2012.</div>
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<div>SUBMISSION POLICY</div>
<div>The idea behind this solicitation is to get
ideas out there; this is not a competition in
the usual sense, and we are all looking to
contribute to the common good — we aim, with
appropriate curation, to make publicly available
what you submit if your idea is selected, and
also anything we build upon it as a class. We
hope that people on the Internet at large will
use the ideas you submit as springboards towards
building a better Internet. </div>
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<div>HOW TO SUBMIT</div>
<div>Interested parties should submit their ideas
in 500 words or less at <a
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href="http://bit.ly/i4bicfp" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/i4bicfp</a>.</div>
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<div>QUESTIONS</div>
<div>If you have any further questions or would
like to submit your proposal via email, contact
us at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:info@i4bi.org" target="_blank">info@i4bi.org</a>.</div>
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