Despite my failure to register on time and my inability to afford the ticket price of the Berkman10 conference at Harvard Cyber Law next weekend, I’m still there, and for this handily-stated reason gleaned elsewhere:

Conference Agenda In A Nutshell

It has been argued that new information technologies and other online tools have the capacity to enhance political transparency and the accountability of government officials, processes, and institutions to their citizens. How does the Internet interact with, protect or endanger democratic engagement and trust? What can we do to push forward in a positive direction? Are there unintended consequences that need addressing? An invitation to a dialogue about the future of politics in the internet age.

Other sessions at the upcoming conference include:

• Anonymity, Privacy and Identity: Towards a Bill of User rights
• Democratized and Distributed Innovation
• The Dilemma of Games: Moral choice in a Digital World
• Framing the Net: What We Say is What We Get
• The Global Internet: Emerging Tech in Emerging Markets
• Internet Censorship and Surveillance: A Multi-Stakeholder Response
• The Musician and the Scientist Write the Code: Protocols for Compensation and Openness
• Netizenship: Engaging with Race and Diversity Online
• Networked News and Public Discourse
• Open Access: Problems of Collective Action and Promises of Civic Engagement
• Political Mobilization, the Internet and the 2008 Elections

Browse the full Agenda.

I digested the info presented at the Electric Equinox panel entitled Evolving the Network: Politics, Culture, and Consciousness on March 29th and want to cover the real thing. Updates will be posted here, and if all goes well, to the berkman10 Facebook group as well.