Spotlight: Five Years of the Oversight Board, from Experiment to Essential Institution
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In this sponsored Spotlight episode of Ctrl-Alt-Speech, host Ben Whitelaw talks to Oversight Board co-chair Paolo Carozza (Professor of Law and Concurrent Professor at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana) and Board member Julie Owono (Executive Director of Internet Without Borders and research affiliate at Berkman Klein Centre) about the Board’s five-year journey and its plans for the future. Together, Ben, Paolo and Julie discuss the Board’s recently published report, From Bold Experiment ...
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