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Quora Response: Fueling Innovation and Entrepreneurship
On the Q&A platform Quora today, Chief Technology Officer Todd Park answered a question about President Obama’s efforts to fuel innovation and entrepreneurship. Read Todd's response below, or join the conversation on Quora. Read More »
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Reach For Your Pocket: Nicaraguans Turn To Their Phones For Reproductive Health
Access to the Internet is something often taken for granted in the Western world. For many of us it’s a handy way to share our thoughts and lives over social media [...]. For many people in the developing world the Internet promises much more, if only they had access to it. Read More »
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Real Copyright Reform Starts With Listening To Users, Not Just The Usual Suspects
In the next baby step on the long march toward reforming the Copyright Act, the House Judiciary Committee is holding hearings on the importance of the “copyright and technology sectors” to the U.S. economy. The first will be held tomorrow. Read More »
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Researcher Argues For Open Hardware To Defend Against NSA Spying
While there is no foolproof defense against government spying, snooping by entities like the National Security Agency could be made far more difficult through the use of Internet infrastructure built on open-source hardware, an academic researcher says. Read More »
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Seen To Be Done: Opening Access To Justice In Victoria [Australia]
The Victorian state parliament is currently considering the Open Courts Bill (2013) after questions have been raised about just how much transparency is needed in the justice system. The bill, proposed by the government, centres on suppression orders and follows several controversies in Victoria and elsewhere over the past five years. Read More »
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Senate Panel Approves Internet Freedom Resolution
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday unanimously approved a resolution calling on the United States to prevent the United Nations from having a greater role in governing the Internet. Read More »
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SmartThings Connects Physical Objects To The Internet, That Can Be Monitored Via Apps (video)
A new open source platform called SmartThings has started its journey on the Kickstarter website, and has been designed to help you created and connect physical objects to the Internet and smartphone applications. Read More »
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Social Media's Role In The Evolution Of FrontlineSMS
It's Social Media Week this week, and in recognition of this and our seventh anniversary next month, we'd like to reflect on the role that social media has played in the history and development of FrontlineSMS. Read More »
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Space Storms Could Knock Out The World’s Entire Critical Communications Infrastructure
In 1859, from Aug. 28 to Sept. 2, we were given an important lesson about how vulnerable we are to the Sun’s power. The Carrington Event, named for the amateur astronomer who recorded it, Richard Christopher Carrington, was a coronal mass ejection: a huge burst of solar wind... Read More »
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Special Report: Towns Go Dark with Post Office Closings
Some of America's poorest communities - many of them with spotty broadband Internet coverage - stand to suffer most if the struggling agency moves ahead with plans to shutter thousands of post offices later this year, a Reuters analysis found. Nearly 80 percent of the 3,830 post offices under consideration are in sparsely populated rural areas where poverty rates are higher than the national average, demographic data analyzed by Reuters shows.
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Stallman, Andreessen, Swartz Among Internet Hall Of Fame’s Latest Inductees
It’s easy to forget that there was a time before the internet, but everything we take for granted now [...] comes off the back of seriously pioneering work. Read More »
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Stallman: How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand?
The current level of general surveillance in society is incompatible with human rights. To recover our freedom and restore democracy, we must reduce surveillance to the point where it is possible for whistleblowers of all kinds to talk with journalists without being spotted. To do this reliably, we must reduce the surveillance capacity of the systems we use. Read More »
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Sub-Saharan African Countries Club Together To Speed Up Mobile Rollouts, Smooth Spectrum Use
A new cross-border group will meet regularly to discuss spectrum allocation, digital inclusion and increasing the pace of high-speed mobile network deployments. Read More »
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Superstar Programmers Are Getting Paid Like Pro Athletes—Tens Of Millions Of Dollars A Year
It’s always nice to be paid your “true value.” Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen says that is what is happening now in the technology industry, where some engineers are drawing multi-million dollar paychecks. Read More »
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Tech Giants Back Initiative For Funding Crucial Open Source Projects
The nonprofit Linux Foundation has announced the Core Infrastructure Initiative, a multi-million dollar project aimed to fund open source projects critical for the global information infrastructure, and a dozen of big tech companies have joined it and will be providing the funds. Since the discovery of the OpenSSL Heartbleed bug some two weeks ago, the one positive thing brought forth by it is a better understanding of the limitations of open source software development.
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