Last week, Senator Feinstein made public a draft cybersecurity information sharing bill titled the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2014 (C...

The Open Technology Institute (OTI) gathered innovative community technologists and organizers from India and Nepal for the first international Com...

At last week’s Personal Democracy Forum, Matt Stempeck who has led work on participatory civic projects out of MIT’s Center for Civic Media, modera...

When Superstorm Sandy hit Brooklyn, a community wireless mesh network in Red Hook helped residents tell people where help was needed and where it w...

Today, the Open Technology Institute and allied civil liberties and human rights organizations sent a letter to the Senate reiterating their suppor...

Are community tool libraries (shared work equipment, like that pictured above) a civic innovation? Image by slobikelane. As part of our new approac...

The new manager’s amendment version of the USA FREEDOM Act to be considered on the House floor is a substantially weakened reform bill compared to ...

This post from OTI’s Civic Innovation Team originally appeared on OpenSource.com Open government is a critical dimension to democracy. It is also d...

A sneak peek of New America's recent civic innovation brainstorm. More soon._ Technology has become part of nearly everything we do in our public a...

In 2009, digital justice coalitions in Detroit and Philadelphia seized an opportunity to turn a new federal policy into a lasting transformation of...

An image from David Macauley's Underground, source: http://socks-studio.com/ This post from OTI’s Civic Innovation Team is part of the Meeting of t...

With recent NSA mass surveillance revelations, the Comcast and Time Warner Cable merger deal, and the uncertain future of net neutrality, the Open ...

The transfer of commercial censorship and surveillance technology produced and exported by American and European companies to repressive countries ...

Broadband has become a critical infrastructure for communities in the 21st century. From a variety of sectors, including commerce, education, healt...

From 2010 to 2012, the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition (DDJC) conducted a federally-funded training program in digital media that they called “De...

As summer vacation approaches, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is moving forward on its plans to bring next-generation Internet connect...

The following is the introduction to the comments. Download a PDF of the full comments here. In the past year, the Federal Communications Commissio...

The Sayada community network, Mesh Sayada, is a collaboratively designed and built wireless network. The town of Sayada is located on the Tunisian ...

OTI has partnered with groups around the world to develop the concept of Digital Stewardship, and hopes to refine it as more communities adopt and ...

The New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute joined Public Knowledge in submitting comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC...

The recent announcement that the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) intends to transfer key Internet domain name ...