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Location matters. Energy, sustainable agriculture, biodiversity, natural hazards, traffic and transportation, crime and political instability, water quality and availability, climate change, migration and urbanization --- all key issues of the 21st century --- have a location component.
Jonathan Zittrain -- co-founder and director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society -- examines how a global internet circumvents, clashes with, and otherwise interacts with local policy frameworks in this talk delivered at the 2013 Conference of the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University.
More info on this event here: http://www.gis.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k235&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup110805