The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation recently gave four million dollars to the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School as part of a digital learning initiative. The gift celebrates the Center's tenth year as a research program to study cyberspace and explore new opportunities. The money will be used to support Internet studies; Berkman will work with scholars, activists and progressive companies, according to a recent press release announcing the grant.
This is not the first MacArthur grant awarded to fund the Berkman's Center educational activities. Other studies have helped Berman investigate emerging digital media to the empirical study of the Internet filtering and surveillance technologies, some of which have led to policy changes.
The Berkman's mission is to " investigate the real and possible boundaries in cyberspace between open and closed systems of code, of commerce, of governance, and of education, and the relationship of law to each. We do this through active rather than passive research, believing that the best way to understand cyberspace is to actually build out into it."
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