Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society has released a report that champions the cause of WiredWest and faults the Baker administration for delays in bringing high-speed Internet to rural western Massachusetts.

Source: Harvard think tank faults Baker administration for stalled rural broadband in Western Massachusetts | masslive.com

They will be inspired by keynote speakers like Nobel Prize winner Dan Shechtman, Dirk Ahlborn (Hyperloop Transportation Technologies), Camille François (Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard), Matthew Reyes (GoPro NASA) and Matt Stopera (Buzzfeed).

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Shulman received his BA and PhD from Yale in Renaissance Studies.  For the 2016-2017 academic year, he will also serve as an affiliate at Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

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Susan Crawford, the co-author of a report from Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, reports for Backchannel that in Western Massachusetts, for instance, tens of thousands of residents are “forced to rely on satellite or awful DSL connections.”

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The Berkman Center’s privacy-focused projects include Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data and the Student Privacy Initiative. Gasser has written extensively on a variety of privacy related issues, such as student privacy, privacy behaviors on social media, and privacy law, both within the U.S. and abroad, independently and through his capacity as executive director of the Berkman Center.

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Still, despite anxieties over “going dark”, a February report from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University said the situation was not as dire as law enforcement had described and that investigators were not “headed to a future in which our ability to effectively surveil criminals and bad actors is impossible”.

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The report from Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society highlights nagging gaps in Massachusetts’ modern Internet infrastructure, which researchers said “is fast becoming a basic need like electricity or water.”

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