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Community Technology for Resilience
Community technology projects can address social, physical, and economic forces that are compounded by crisis and disaster events. The community te...
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Major US ISPs Provide Connection Speeds Below Broadband: Report
All major US ISPs are providing connection speeds below broadband, according to a damning report from independent internet connection measuring org...
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Four short links: 29 October 2014
M-Lab Observatory — explorable data on the data experience (RTT, upload speed, etc) across different ISPs in different geographies over time.
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Study finds Web traffic deals to blame for slow speeds
People across the country are experiencing slow speeds on the Internet thanks to the complicated system Internet service providers (ISP) use to con...
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Study: Comcast and Verizon connections to Cogent dropped below 0.5Mbps
But now we have more numbers on the performance declines, thanks to a new report from the Measurement Lab Consortium (M-Lab).
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Study blames backbone business deals for broadband congestion
Business relationships between major broadband providers and Internet backbone providers appear to be the cause of major drags on performance from ...
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Backbone business deals blamed for broadband congestion
Business relationships between major broadband providers and Internet backbone providers appear to be the cause of major drags on performance from ...
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ISP Interconnection and its Impact on Consumer Internet Performance
A Measurement Lab Consortium Technical Report
WASHINGTON, DC - Researchers working with the Measurement Lab Consortium (M-Lab) have released a new study on the impact of network interconnection...
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Peering problems aren’t technical issues, but economic ones
A report out Tuesday on the cost of interconnection fights shows that the problem is the business deals, not technology, and that the consumer pays...
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Thousands of Americans got sub-broadband ISP service, thanks to telcoms shenanigans
Measurement Lab, an open, independent analysis organization devoted to measuring the quality of Internet connections and detecting censorship, tech...
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Reflecting on The Responsive City
Susan Crawford and Stephen Goldsmith's new book highlights many interesting case studies and raises new questions around the ecosystem of people, place and technology.
New America’s Open Technology Institute and Civic Innovation project hosted Harvard professors Susan Crawford and Stephen Goldsmith to discuss thei...
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Dispatch from Busan
Arriving at the 2014 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference
For the past week, thousands of delegates from over 175 countries have been gathering in Busan, South Korea for the International Telecommunication...
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4 ways millennials are changing politics
Young voters still believe public officials can drive change; but some believe the ballot box isn't the only way to influence them. In this case, M...
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Data and Discrimination
Collected Essays
Despite significant political and cultural transformations since the Civil Rights movement and other social upheavals of the Sixties and Seventies,...
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Mesh Bukavu – Designing a network from scratch
The Open Technology Institute recently discussed options for community wireless networks with Free Press Unlimited – a NGO based in the Netherlands...
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Conference to explore digital security for news gathering; agenda includes Poitras film screening
Media Advisory
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Freedom of the Press Foundation and New America’s Open Technology Institute are hosting a free da...
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How Knight Foundation empowers innovators
Knight funding helped enable Ranking Digital Rights to launch its pilot study and create my job, but Knight’s people have helped me move from obser...
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New America’s Open Technology Institute Releases Version 1.1 of the Commotion Networking Toolkit
Washington, DC — New America’s Open Technology Institute (OTI) announced today that it has publicly released the latest version of its groundbreaki...
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"Digital Rights Groups Ask ITU To Stay Out of Net Neutrality Debate"
If the ITU moves to allow telecom-style termination fees for Web traffic, the United Nations agency could damage Internet openness and threaten net...
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New Interactive Map Visualizes Swing States in the Global Internet Governance Debate
OTI Releases New Resource Ahead of 2014 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference
As the 2014 International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) Plenipotentiary Conference begins today in Busan, South Korea, New America’s Open Technol...
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Visualizing Swing States in the Global Internet Governance Debate
The global Internet governance debate is heating up again. In light of the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) 2014 Plenipotentiary Confe...
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NSA Surveillance Costs and the Crypto Debate
Tech Companies Compete on Privacy Post-Snowden
While surveillance reform efforts in Congress are on pause until lawmakers return from the campaign trail in November, the costs of the NSA’s bulk ...