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“Public” Space, Civic Engagement, and the Internet
How and can we, as a community, collectively curate safe public spaces that all us the opportunity to define what we want community to be?
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With and Of and By and For
The idea that anybody can participate is the very source of government as platform’s value. It’s also a frequently revisited trope within the civic...
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Privacy Groups Ask FCC to Address E911 Privacy Concerns
Today OTI joined a coalition of 17 privacy advocates, including Public Knowledge, American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Democracy & Technology...
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7 internet policy ideas that everyone can agree on
Here are seven issues on which we do agree — and we think policy experts across the political spectrum could get behind these common-sense reforms.
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New Project: Experimental Modes of Civic Engagement in Civic Tech
Today we’re launching a new project— Experimental Modes of Civic Engagement in Civic Tech. This is a project led by Laurenellen McCann that deepens...
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FCC's E-rate Decision Draws a Crowd
"The FCC is tackling the capacity gap and providing a much-needed injection of funding in a program that that has become increasingly strained in r...
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OTI Statement on FCC’s E-rate Order for School and Library Connectivity
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to adopt a second E-rate modernization order, making further changes to t...
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Additional Filing on Legal Authority for Mobile Net Neutrality
Click here to read the full ex parte document Re: Notice of Oral Ex Parte Presentation Protecting and Promoting the Open Internet, GN Docket Nos. 1...
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Visible, Legible, Navigable: Graphic Design Meets Disaster Relief
Mediated by a coalition of designated partners (including the Red Hook Initiative, whose WiFi mesh network was an inspiration for this work), the H...
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Open Technology Institute, Civil Rights, Research Leaders Launch DataCivilRights.org
WASHINGTON, DC – New America’s Open Technology Institute, in collaboration with The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the Data & ...
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A privacy policy for cars: What automakers know about you (and what they’re doing with it)
Manufacturers that commit to the voluntary agreement vow to use customer information for "legitimate business practices" only, but that's a phrase ...
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Chattanooga Focused on Offline Community Organizing Around Its Gigabit Network
Reflections on a visit to the “gig city”
Chattanooga, TN, is home to a world-class fiber-to-the-home broadband network. Owned and operated by the local electrical utility, EPB, the network...
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The unstoppable rise of the global surveillance profiteers
If you draw restrictions that are overly broad, you catch up technologies that have legitimate uses and harm the country’s business interests,” exp...
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Boston: An Exciting Place for Civic Innovation
Boston is not just trying one strategy or using one tool; rather it is creating an entire ecosystem for innovation to thrive. The recent passing of...
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City libraries announce wi-fi hotspot program
Among the advisers to the library for the program are, in addition to the mayor's office, Tim Wu, the Columbia Law professor and net neutrality adv...
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Stopping the Unlawful Trade of Surveillance Tech
An open letter to the members of the Wassenaar Arrangement
Yesterday, a coalition of human rights organizations sent a strong message about the need to curb the uncontrolled export of surveillance technolog...
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American broadband is better than you think
Danielle Kehl noted two big drawbacks to the American internet. One was price. American broadband networks might be fast, but consumers often pay a...
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The US Needs a New International Strategy for Cyberspace
As we approach the four-year anniversary of the initial International Strategy, it’s time for the United States to issue a new strategy to account ...
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Technological Sovereignty: Missing the Point?
An Analysis of European Proposals after June 5, 2013
European government officials and public figures have promoted a variety of proposals for gaining “technological sovereignty” in response to the me...
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OTI & WiFu support unlicensed spectrum in TV White Spaces
Files Replies to Oppositions to Petitions for Reconsideration in Incentive Auction Docket
The Open Technology Institute at the New America Foundation (“OTI”) and Public Knowledge (“PK”) support the Commission’s balanced and sequenced app...
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Technological Sovereignty: Missing the Point?
New Study Finds that European “Technological Sovereignty” Proposals Fall Short of Expectations
WASHINGTON, DC – New America’s Open Technology Institute in partnership with the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin, Germany, released a new ...