http://globaljustice.stanford.edu/news/Recent news from PGJen-usPublic domainhttp://globaljustice.stanford.edu/images/feed-icon-48x48.jpghttp://globaljustice.stanford.edu/news/60http://globaljustice.stanford.edu/news/2944During spring quarter Kieran Oberman has been teaching "An Introduction to Global Justice".]]>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://globaljustice.stanford.edu/news/2944?rsshttp://globaljustice.stanford.edu/news/2686Mobile phones are one of the most rapidly adopted new technologies in history, with usage in all parts of the world rising quickly—and soaring in developing nations. In 2000, there were 16 million mobile subscriptions in Africa; in 2008, there were 376 million. No longer limited to one-to-one communication, mobile phones are mini-computers that provide access to the Internet and a wide array of services from banking to shopping.]]>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:00:00 PSThttp://globaljustice.stanford.edu/news/2686?rsshttp://globaljustice.stanford.edu/news/2664In early January 2011, The Center for Ethics in Society will be accepting applications for our two post doctoral fellowship programs. It is our hope that our post doctoral fellows will partner with us to develop an inter-disciplinary ethics community across the campus. More information about the application process and the specific deadlines will be posted during Fall quarter.]]>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:00:00 PSThttp://globaljustice.stanford.edu/news/2664?rsshttp://globaljustice.stanford.edu/news/2683As new digital technologies arise, leading the music, movie, print journalism and other content industries to complain that they “cannot compete with free,” Mark Lemley, Director of the Center for Law, Science and Technology at SLS, poses the following overarching question: is the sky really falling on the content industries? As Lemley makes clear through a series of examples, representatives from these industries have echoed this same claim countless times throughout recent history, and yet have never been fully accurate. Even so, both the courts and the legislature have taken action in response to content industries’ claims in some cases.]]>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:00:00 PSThttp://globaljustice.stanford.edu/news/2683?rsshttp://globaljustice.stanford.edu/news/2679Matt Harrison, from the Prometheus Institute, began his talk with a discussion of the theoretical underpinnings behind the work of The Prometheus Institute. The work of the Institute is oriented by two central premises: first, that technology facilitates evolution, and second, that policy needs evolution. In this case, evolution is taken to mean adaptive self-organization, where the basic evolutionary mechanism is a progression through three steps: differentiation, selection and amplification. Harrison suggests that policy is not evolving rapidly enough because of legal and technical barriers--like opacity, perpetuity and monopoly--that impede progress, and that new technologies offer tools for improving self-organization and hastening evolution.]]>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:00:00 PSThttp://globaljustice.stanford.edu/news/2679?rsshttp://globaljustice.stanford.edu/news/2682The term Government 2.0 is often used to describe examples in which the tools, lessons, and ethos of the tech community are applied to help government and other organizations tackle big problems. By Josh Goldstein’s account, Government 2.0 has an especially large potential for impact in Africa, a fact that can be seen through examination of case examples at the local level. In an effort to better understand and communicate the link between technology and actual tangible impacts on people’s lives, Goldstein focused his talk on an organization called Map Kibera that represents an example of Government 2.0 that is playing out in Kibera, one of Africa’s largest slums.]]>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:00:00 PSThttp://globaljustice.stanford.edu/news/2682?rsshttp://globaljustice.stanford.edu/news/2680Professor Joshua Cohen introduced this week’s session with an overview of the event that has been dubbed the Haystack Affair. At the time of the Iran election in June 2009, various projects emerged as attempts to improve the flow of information among activists. One of the projects that emerged at this time was Haystack, a circumvention tool that aimed to make it difficult for the government to trace what members of Iran’s Green Movement were saying. Around August 2010, there was a flurry of discussion and critiques of Haystack on Stanford’s Liberation Technology listserv. By mid-September, the Censorship Research]]>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:00:00 PSThttp://globaljustice.stanford.edu/news/2680?rsshttp://globaljustice.stanford.edu/news/2681Chris Spence, Chief Technology Officer of the National Democratic Institute, shared the National Democratic Institute's approach to the question of how technology can best be used for creating and advancing democracy in closed societies. There have been many recent developments in this space, including the publication of Blogs and Bullets (a report on new media in contentious politics), the closing of Haystack, and the occurrence of Google's Internet at Liberty conference in Budapest. However, the National Democratic Institute (NDI) has been working in this area for several years, and today works in more than 70 countries across the world.]]>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PSThttp://globaljustice.stanford.edu/news/2681?rsshttp://globaljustice.stanford.edu/news/2608Joshua Cohen, Professor of Political Science, Philosophy and Law at Stanford University, began the first session of this quarter's Seminar on Liberation Technologies by posing a big question: are information and communication technologies able to advance human well-being for development? After all, Mobile ICT has potential to be a good thing for development for a multitude of reasons. First, as Solow's model of growth has shown, technological innovation tends to be good for growth. Second, economic growth is closely related to development. Third, mobile phone usage is rapidly growing and indigenous in much of the world, which means that new technologies do not need to be "parachuted" in to scenarios where they are not matched to local needs. Finally, there is high mobile penetration today, even in low-income settings.]]>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PSThttp://globaljustice.stanford.edu/news/2608?rsshttp://globaljustice.stanford.edu/news/2507The Program on Global Justice will begin its series of Linda Randall Meier Research Workshops on October 1, 2010. This series examines questions of global justice including: poverty, inequality between nations, oppressive regimes, identity, human rights, and our duties to one another. Some of the guest speakers will be Sam Bowles, Santa Fe Institute, Yochai Benkler, Harvard Law School and Ruth Grant, Duke University.]]>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:00:00 PSThttp://globaljustice.stanford.edu/news/2507?rsshttp://globaljustice.stanford.edu/news/2489Allegra McLeod and Kieran Oberman prepare to teach a session of "Introduction to Global Justice".]]>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 PSThttp://globaljustice.stanford.edu/news/2489?rsshttp://globaljustice.stanford.edu/news/2506On April 19, the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies convened a special conference on Technology, Governance, and Global Development, to examine how technical innovation solves, or fails to solve, the problems of chronic global underdevelopment. Experts from business, medicine, philanthropy, academia, government and non-governmental organizations, along with young Stanford alumni, addressed technology's ability to help secure gains in health, economic development, agricultural innovation, food security, and human development.]]>Wed, 05 May 2010 00:00:00 PSThttp://globaljustice.stanford.edu/news/2506?rsshttp://globaljustice.stanford.edu/news/2387In mid-April, FSI convened a conference on Technology, Governance, and Global Development, to examine how technical innovation solves, or fails to solve, the problems of global underdevelopment. Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State, gave a lunch keynote address with a focus on why democracies are more effective in delivering economic development. Bill Gates, Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, urged students to become actively involved in the major issues of global health and education.]]>Mon, 03 May 2010 00:00:00 PSThttp://globaljustice.stanford.edu/news/2387?rsshttp://globaljustice.stanford.edu/news/2375The Boston Review, edited by Deborah Chasman and FSI's Josh Cohen, professor of law, political science, and philosophy and CDDRL affiliated faculty, has won the 2010 Utne Independent Press Award for Best Writing. Said Utne, "Crack open Boston Review's generously sized newsprint pages and plunge into a world where poems sit alongside political essays, where fiction coexists with cultural criticism, and where - this is key - every element in the intellectual fiesta is thought-provoking and expertly crafted."]]>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:00:00 PSThttp://globaljustice.stanford.edu/news/2375?rsshttp://globaljustice.stanford.edu/news/1916The Program on Global Justice, which explores issues at the intersection of political norms and global political-economic realities, has joined CDDRL, Center Director Larry Diamond announced. Josh Cohen, a professor of political science, philosophy, and law, came to Stanford from M.I.T. in 2006 to launch a new program on global justice at FSI.]]>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://globaljustice.stanford.edu/news/1916?rss