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Building a Mesh Networks in Rural Somaliland
I had heard about mesh networking before I arrived in Somaliland, but had never been in the position to actually build a mesh network. When I accep...
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The KEYSPOT Model: A Home Away From Home
This is the fourth of four blog posts about the Freedom Rings Partnership in Philadelphia and its KEYSPOT program, funded by the federal Broadband ...
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A Guide to the Wassenaar Arrangement
The Open Technology Institute is currently engaged in a joint project on export controls with Privacy International and Digitale Gesellschaft. The ...
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International Agreement Reached Controlling Export of Mass and Intrusive Surveillance Technology
The Open Technology Institute is currently engaged in a joint project on export controls with Privacy International and Digitale Gesellschaft. The ...
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International Body Moving to Restrict Export of Surveillance Systems Used to Commit Human Rights Abuses
The Open Technology Institute is currently engaged in a joint project on export controls with Privacy International and Digitale Gesellschaft. The ...
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Export Controls and the Implications for Security Research Tools
The Open Technology Institute is currently engaged in a joint project on export controls with Privacy International and Digitale Gesellschaft. The ...
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OTI wins prestigious partnership with the abc* Foundation for Commotion mesh network technology
We’re excited to announce that the ABC* Foundation has selected the Open Technology Institute (OTI) for a prestigious two-year partnership to deplo...
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Comments on Citizens Broadband Service Public Notice
GN Docket No. 12-354
The New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute joined Public Knowledge in submitting comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC...
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Comcast Expands Data Capping Trials: Why You Should Care
Guest post by Katie Fiegenbaum, Policy Intern with the Open Technology Institute Earlier this month, Comcast expanded its trial program that impose...
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Helping Philadelphians Adopt Broadband
This is the third of four blog posts about the Freedom Rings Partnership in Philadelphia and its KEYSPOT program, funded by the federal Broadband T...
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Consumer Federation of America releases research brief analyzing OTI data
The Consumer Federation of America (CFA) recently released a research brief authored by long-time consumer advocate Mark Cooper. The paper, titled ...
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Creating Community through Public Computer Centers
This is the second of four blog posts about the Freedom Rings Partnership in Philadelphia and its KEYSPOT program, funded by the federal Broadband ...
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BTOP in Focus: The Philadelphia Freedom Rings Partnership
This is the first in a series of four blog posts about the Freedom Rings Partnership in Philadelphia and its KEYSPOT program, funded by the federal...
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Reply Comments on E-rate Modernization
WC Docket No. 13-184
The New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute and Education Policy Program submitted joint reply comments to the Federal Communications Co...
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Building Pop-up Mesh Networks
The Open Technology Institute recently conducted a training on how to build pop-up mesh networks using Commotion. Our goal was to quickly deploy a ...
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Pervasive surveillance, individual freedoms, and collective justice
The problem of pervasive surveillance technologies drums up passionate defenses of individual freedom and civil liberties, but what about collectiv...
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Data Profiling and Social Justice -- Remarks prepared for Eyebeam's “PRISM Breakup”
Presentation by Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Senior Research Fellow at Open Technology Institute, at PRISM Breakup in New York City, Saturday, October 5...
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Broadband and Education
Access to the Internet is increasingly critical to success both inside and outside of the classroom. Students, parents, and teachers across the Uni...
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Consent of the Networked
The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom
A global struggle for control of the Internet is now underway. At stake are no less than civil liberties, privacy and even the character of democra...
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Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights
The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It
The sudden meltdown of the news media has sparked one of the liveliest debates in recent memory, with an outpouring of opinion and analysis crackli...
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Audience Evolution
New Technologies and the Transformation of Media Audiences
Today's consumers have unprecedented choice in terms of the technologies and platforms that access, produce, and distribute media content. The deve...
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The Master Switch
The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
According to Columbia professor and policy advocate Tim Wu, the great information empires of the 20th century have followed a clear and distinctive...