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Why We Should Build A National Internet System Under The National Highway System

Eric Jaffe | The Atlantic Cities | August 21, 2013

Earlier this month, The Daily Yonder, a well-named site about life in rural America, brought us this unsettling map of broadband availability, or lack thereof, in the country's remote counties: Read More »

WikiLeaks Releases Details Of 'One Of The Worst Global Threats To The Internet'

Kevin Collier | The Daily Dot | November 13, 2013

The Trans-Pacific Partnership, a highly secretive trade agreement that Internet advocates call "one of the worst global threats to the Internet," got a little less secret Wednesday. Read More »

Wikipedia Is A Massively Popular (Yet Untested) Doctor

Clara Ritger | Nextgov | February 21, 2014

Wikipedia says that fewer than 1 percent of its medical articles have been peer-reviewed, but that doesn't stop the pages from grabbing more than 180 million views per month. Read More »

Wikipedia Positioned To Track Disease Outbreak: The Model That Could Rival Current Resources

Stephanie Castillo | Medical Daily | November 13, 2014

...Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia has become the sixth most visited site in the world. Researchers reported the site contains around 30 million articles in 287 languages and it serves roughly 850 million article requests per day...

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Will Western Tech Firms Stand for Freedom? Experts Are Split

Joseph Marks | NextGov | July 6, 2012

Internet experts are about evenly split on whether Western-based technology firms will protect dissidents in autocratic nations a decade down the road or whether they’ll be aiding the oppressors, according to a report released Thursday. Read More »

World Bank Open Knowledge Repository Introduces Mobile-Friendly Design

Staff Writer | World Bank | January 23, 2014

In keeping up with the rapid growth in mobile usage worldwide, the World Bank just relaunched the Open Knowledge Repository (OKR)—its open access portal to its publications and research—on an upgraded platform specifically optimized for mobile use. Read More »

World Bank Promotes Open Data In Myanmar

Clarice Africa | FutureGov | June 27, 2013

More than 120 members from civil society organisations, research institutes and government ministries participated in the recent “Open Development” workshop organised by the World Bank, as part of its on-going efforts to encourage the use of publicly accessible data and research [...] to tackle development challenges. Read More »

World Wide Web Founder Supports Brazil's "Internet Constitution"

Angelica Mari | ZD Net | March 25, 2014

The founder of the World Wide Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee has called for Brazil's first set of internet governance rules to be passed "without further delay or amendment."  The Marco Civil da Internet, dubbed Brazil's "Internet Constitution", is due to be voted this week and the creator of the Web, who had previously voiced opinions about aspects of the Bill, released a statement of support.

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XO Tablet native mesh networking added with Open Garden preload

Chris Davies | SlashGear | August 21, 2013

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project has paired with Open Garden to bring mesh-networking to the new XO Tablet, allowing users of the low-cost open source slate to get online via bridged connections with other owners. [...] Read More »