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Youth-Centered Policy-Making: Balancing Rights and Protections
In July 2014 the Bolivian government approved, within the Bolivian Children and Adolescents Code, allowing children as young as 10-12 to work indep...
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The cure for cancer that parents won’t use
Not so long ago, when my sons still had smooth cheeks and children’s voices, I had them vaccinated against human papillomavirus, the most common se...
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ISIS: Is it really a threat to the U.S.?
U.S. officials are claiming that the terrorist group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, is "now a credible alternative to al Qaeda." But wha...
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OTI Urges FTC to Address Effects of Big Data Technologies on Underserved Communities
Last week, New America’s Open Technology Institute urged the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to confront the challenges of determining the effects o...
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Relief Official Urges Groups to Step Up Ebola Efforts | New York Times
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is “a complete disaster,” and health agencies do not yet grasp its scope, the president of the relief group Docto...
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OTI Submites Reply Comments in Latest Round of Citizen's Broadband Radio Service Proceeding
On Friday OTI joined with Public Knowledge, Common Cause, and the Institute for Local Self-Reliance in submitting reply comments to the Federal Com...
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Techno Sapiens: The End of Serendipity
Welcome to Techno Sapiens, a biweekly series of six podcasts hosted by Future Tense fellows Christine Rosen, senior editor of the New Atlantis: A J...
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Technology Can Make Lawful Surveillance Both Open and Effective | MIT Technology Review
All this secrecy—and its recent partial unraveling—has harmed our democracy and our economy. But effective surveillance does not require total secr...
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Barack Obama’s Mixed Messages | Politico
There’s a huge difference,” said Douglas Ollivant, a senior national security fellow with the New America Foundation. “No one is concerned about th...
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Islamic State Militants Said to Challenge Al-Qaeda for Jihadi Leadership | Bloomberg
Brian Fishman: “Since the late ’90s, al-Qaeda has been focused on prioritizing attacks against the U.S.” while the upstart Islamic State and its pr...
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Call for Proposals: International Commotion Mesh Wireless Projects
The Open Technology Institute is pleased to announce its first call for proposals from groups interested in implementing Commotion-based wireless m...
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Reply Comments on 3.5 GHz Citizen Broadband Radio Service
GN Docket No. 12-354
The Open Technology Institute at the New America Foundation joined Public Knowledge, Common Cause, and the Institute for Local Self-Reliance in sub...
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President Obama comes out in favor of strong open Internet rules
Last week, President Obama made it clear that he supports an open Internet and would be opposed to a system where discrimination that favors "big w...
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Asset Building News Week, August 11-15
The Asset Building News Week is a weekly Friday feature on The Ladder, the Asset Building Program blog, designed to help readers keep up with news ...
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The Bursting Kurdish Bubble
All of these things have allowed ISIS to continue their advance and drive at the heart of the Kurdish independent region, i.e. oil refineries in th...
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Free wifi is coming to LA’s parks, but is that a good thing? | KPCC
Six public parks in the Los Angeles area are about to get a bit more connected---Echo Park Lake, the Griffith Observatory, Cabrillo Beach, Venice B...
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What the U.S. can realistically do in Iraq | CNN
Over the past few days, politicians and experts have been debating the merits of the Obama administration's strategy in Iraq — or whether there is ...
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Freedom Act Leaves IT Sector at Risk for Spy Program Costs | E-Commerce Times
"We are looking at billions of dollars of potential losses for U.S. companies as individuals, businesses, and foreign governments turn away from Am...
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Drone Wars: Transforming Conflict, Law, and Policy
Drones are the iconic military technology of many of today's most pressing conflicts, a lens through which U.S. foreign policy is understood, and a...
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Costs of the NSA | Federal News Radio
It's been more than a year since Edward Snowden first leaked news of the National Security Agency's collecting metadata on Americans. While the jur...