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...afternoon’s discussion was guided by Best, who moderated the event, and a group of panelists including two Nobel Prize winning economics professors, Harvard’s Amartya K. Sen and Stanford’s A. Michael Spence. They were joined by Law School Professor Yochai Benkler and Clotilde Fonseca, a Founding Director of the National Program of Educational Informatics in Costa Rica. While much of the discussion centered around how technology could be deployed as a tool in international development, some time was also devoted to a range of issues including economic competition and regulation, policy implications...
...power to set the agenda? Where do ideas come from? It’s an empirical question with enormous implications for political theory and how we see the relationship between the net and democracy,” said Yochai Benkler, a Law School professor and one of the chief architects of the Web site...
...Benkler, who is also the Center’s faculty co-director, said he plans to utilize the database to examine the public debate over the recent economic stimulus package and how online media sources helped shape the final package that emerged from Congress...
...It’s like looking through a new telescope and seeing things that your prior tools couldn’t show you,” said Benkler...
...users might need more time. “Why would my Facebook friends want to know what I buy? ‘Hey pals, look what I brought on Amazon!’” Daniel J. Thorn ’11 said. Entrepreneurial legal studies professor Yochai Benkler wrote in an e-mail that he sees Beacon as “Facebook’s effort to take that most powerful form of recommendation—‘hey, that’s cool, where did you get that?’—and instantiate...