[Chapter-delegates] [Fwd: Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society: Online Discourse in the Arab World / Cluetrain at 10]

[Khaled KOUBAA]

For your interest if you are in DC.
Jonathan Zittrain ( ISOC Board newly elected ) is speaking.
Also some Arab active bloggers are speaking about the “Online Discourse 
in the Arab World: Dispelling the Myths.”

Khaled

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Sujet : 	Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society: Online 
Discourse in the Arab World / Cluetrain at 10
Date : 	Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:19:00 -0400
De : 	Amar Ashar <ashar at cyber.law.harvard.edu>
Répondre à : 	special-events-list at eon.law.harvard.edu,Amar Ashar 
<ashar at cyber.law.harvard.edu>
Pour : 	special-events-list at eon.law.harvard.edu



The Berkman Center for Internet & Society would like to alert you to a 
special event taking place at the United States Institute of Peace on 
June 17: “Online Discourse in the Arab World: Dispelling the Myths.” 
http://blogsbullets.eventbrite.com/

Also, a reminder that, on the evening of June 16, Doc Searls and David 
Weinberger will discuss The Cluetrain Manifesto, on the occasion of the 
release of its tenth anniversary edition, with Berkman faculty 
co-director Jonathan Zittrain. 
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2009/06/cluetrainat10

Both events will be webcast live for those who are unable to attend in 
person. Details below.


ONLINE DISCOURSE IN THE ARAB WORLD: DISPELLING THE MYTHS
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6/17/09, 10:00 AM ET
United States Institute of Peace, Washington, DC
This is a public event and will be webcast live.

Full details, including RSVP for the event/webcast, at: 
http://blogsbullets.eventbrite.com/

The Internet & Democracy project will present the Berkman Center's new 
research on the Arabic blogosphere, which analyzes over 10,000 blogs 
from 18 countries and which follows last year's Mapping Iran’s Online 
Public: Politics and Culture in the Persian Blogosphere. The Arabic 
blogosphere findings will be discussed by an exceptional panel of 
speakers, with the online participation of bloggers from the Middle East.

Speakers
John Palfrey and Bruce Etling, Harvard University, Berkman Center for 
Internet & Society
John Kelly, Morningside Analytics
Daniel Brumberg, Georgetown University, Acting Director of USIP's Muslim 
World Initiative
Saad Ibrahim, Voices for a Democratic Egypt
Hisham Melhem, Al Arabiya, Washington Bureau Chief
Sheldon Himelfarb, United States Institute of Peace (Moderator)

Bloggers from throughout the Arab world will also participate live 
online and via video, including Raed Jarrar (Iraq), Nora Younis (Egypt), 
Laila El Haddad (Palestine), and Amira Al Hussaini (Bahrain).

This event is part of the USIP Center of Innovation for Science, 
Technology, and Peacebuilding's ongoing “Blogs and Bullets” initiative 
examining the relationship between online discourse and violent conflict.

RSVP for the event at: http://blogsbullets.eventbrite.com/



CLUETRAIN @ 10: SO HOW'S UTOPIA WORKING OUT FOR YA?
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http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2009/06/cluetrainat10

6/16/09, 6:00 PM ET
Austin East Classroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School
Free and Open to the Public

Harvard Law professor and co-founder of Harvard's Berkman Center for 
Internet & Society Jonathan Zittrain talks with two of The Cluetrain 
Manifesto's co-authors, Doc Searls and David Weinberger, in an open 
forum. This event will commemorate the release of the tenth anniversary 
edition of The Cluetrain Manifesto.

RSVP requested via 
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2009/06/cluetrainat10 or on Facebook 
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=99640854800&ref=nf


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