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Turn Up The Radio: Fostering Community Media Collaboration
“Community radio is 10% radio and 90% community,” Jeff Shaw says. Speaking at a workshop about bringing together the worlds of low-power FM (LPFM) radio and public access television, Shaw drew this key...
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August 8, 2011Hannah SassamanAugust 8, 2011It was a dream that never died — thousands of groups across the United States fighting for their own community radio stations. Now, after 10 years of...
View ArticleIn Defense of the Internet Craftsman
August 15, 2011 Universal broadband should be about control, not just access. James LoseySascha MeinrathAugust 15, 2011In 1439, Johannes Gutenberg sparked an information revolution. The invention of...
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Technology Will Take on a Life of Its Own
Sept./Oct. 2011 Welcome to the Hybrid Age. Parag Khanna Ayesha Khanna August 16, 2011It was the double date we had looked forward to more than any other. Just before sunset on a hot August day in Los...
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Name that Tech – Collaborative Design Challenge Workshop
NOTE: This article was originally posted by Nina Bianchi at the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition site.At the Allied Media Conference in Detroit, 2011, Joshua Breitbart of The New America Foundation's...
View ArticleCyberspace and U.S. Competitiveness
October 17, 2011Sascha MeinrathOctober 17, 2011For millennia, trade routes defined the very foundations of civilization and empire. Today, the Internet backbone and the spread of broadband connectivity...
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Shaping 21st Century Journalism
Leveraging a “Teaching Hospital Model” in Journalism Education October 27, 2011C. W. AndersonTom GlaisyerJason Smith Marika Rothfeld The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State...
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Online or Offline, Trust Still Matters
The following is cross-posted from the British Council Voices blog. On November 9, the Open Technology Initiative and the British Council will co-host the event "Trust 2.0: Building Trust Through...
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Consent of the Networked
The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom Rebecca MacKinnonJanuary 31, 2012A global struggle for control of the Internet is now underway. At stake are no less than civil liberties, privacy and even...
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Philly Tech Week: A Different Type of Digital Divide
For one action-packed week in late April, Philadelphia techies and non-techies brainstormed, programmed, blogged, and tweeted about tech access, entrepreneurship, and innovation. Philly Tech Week (PTW...
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Freedom to Compete With Telecom Networks
This entry is part of an ongoing series of cross-posted content from the Netizen Project, providing news and information for the citizens of the Internet.People aren’t free online if the only choice...
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News Roundup, June 8: World IPv6 Day, Cyberwars, Social Media Suspension in...
On June 6, the tech community celebrated World IPv6 Launch Day, when a number of major ISPs and Internet companies turned on IPv6, a new protocol for Internet addresses known as IPv4. This new protocol...
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Public Media Policy, Spectrum Policy, and Rethinking Public Interest...
June 21, 2012Benjamin LennettTom GlaisyerSascha MeinrathIn this paper we consider reforms and innovations in spectrum policy that would enable and sustain an expanded public media to better support...
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News Roundup, June 15: Domestic Filtering, Wireless Spectrum Auctions, Mobile...
Welcome to our weekly series, highlighting the most newsworthy events under the Open Technology Initiative’s three key areas: Freedom of Expression, Spectrum Policy, and Privacy and Security. Contact...
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Call for Paper Proposals
Call for Paper ProposalsIs it working? Evaluating and assessing broadband policyA by-invitation experts’ workshopNew America Foundation September 19-21, 2012With broadband becoming the central means...
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Horizontal Knowledge Sharing: OTI at the Allied Media Conference
This week at the Open Technology Institute, we’re going back to the source of our passion for technology. It’s not about policy objectives or new software features, but rather the inspiration and...
View ArticleIDL Launch Party Invite
Remember how the Internet community stopped SOPA? Come on out to Irish Whiskey this Thursday at 8pm for the official launch of the Internet Defense League (IDL), a network of people and organizations...
View ArticleThe Miracle of Everything Anywhere Anytime
October 2, 2012 Let's stop moping for a moment to remember what infoscarcity felt like Andrés MartinezOctober 2, 2012I must have been 12 or 13 when my father suggested I go downtown with him to get...
View ArticleHappy Internet Freedom Day
January 18, 2013 A year ago today, SOPA went from meaning soup in Spanish to meaning we all care about our right to information. Marvin AmmoriJanuary 18, 2013One year ago, in the aftermath of the...
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OTI heads to the National Conference on Media Reform in Denver!
This week a group from the Open Technology Institute (OTI) will join the thousands of media makers and journalists, activists, advocates, policymakers, and technologists convening in Denver at the...
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