REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Omidyar Network today announced a planned grant of up to $1.5M to Herdict, a project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

As the Internet approaches its 40th birthday, a number of observers fear that the openness that has catalyzed innovation and driven its explosive evolution may be coming increasingly under threat from artificial barriers, leaving its future development none too secure.

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Tuesday announced that it would back away from previous plans to force computer makers to bundle filtering software with all computers.

Starting next month, the Chinese government will be requiring that the Green Dam Youth Escort filtering software be installed on all computers.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The Berkman Center for Internet & Society will host a day and a half-long public meeting of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force (ISTTF) on September 23 and 24 at Harvard Law School.