[Chapter-delegates] Fwd: Harvard/Stanford Call for Ideas for a Better Internet, Submission Deadline 4/15

[Khaled KOUBAA]

Dear colleagues,
I want to share with you this excellent initiative lunched by the 
Berkman Center
I hope that you can participate in proposing your ideas.
Khaled

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From: *Elizabeth Stark*
Date: Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:58 PM
Subject: Harvard/Stanford Call for Ideas for a Better Internet, 
Submission Deadline 4/15

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 http://bit.ly/i4bicfp by Friday, April 15. Please spread the 
word far and wide, and follow us on Twitter at 
http://twitter.com/Ideas4BetterNet.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
Does the solution meaningfully contribute to building a better Internet?
Does it enhance openness, accessibility, security, or something else of 
value to the public?
Does the solution effectively respond to a particular problem or need?
What, realistically, will the project change about the Internet? How 
significant will the change be?
Does the proposal account for realistic challenges and constraints?

ELIGIBILITY
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.

DEADLINE
All proposals must be submitted by 12:00 PM PT on Friday, April 15, 2011.

TIMELINE
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.

SUBMISSION POLICY
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.

HOW TO SUBMIT
Interested parties should submit their ideas in 500 words or less at 
http://bit.ly/i4bicfp.

QUESTIONS
If you have any further questions or would like to submit your proposal 
via email, contact us at info at i4bi.org <mailto:info at i4bi.org>.



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