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Recommended Standards for TANF Payment Card Contracts
Families participating in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (TANF/cash assistance) often must pay significant fees and surcharges...
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Case Study: Mesh Sayada
The Sayada community network, Mesh Sayada, is a collaboratively designed and built wireless network. The town of Sayada is located on the Tunisian ...
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Digital Stewardship and your community
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 ...
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Four things we learned about the Boston bombing
As is often the case with big news events, much of what we understood to be the case in the immediate aftermath of the event and what we now know a...
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U.S. right wing extremists more deadly than jihadists
Since 9/11, extremists affiliated with a variety of far-right wing ideologies, including white supremacists, anti-abortion extremists and anti-gove...
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11 things to know about world's biggest election
India's general election, the largest democratic exercise in history, begins Monday.
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The man who inspired the Boston bombings
One year after the Boston Marathon bombings and almost three years after his death in a CIA drone strike in Yemen, Anwar al-Awlaki, the New Mexico-...
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The Employer Potential of MOOCs
A recent report from RTI International and Duke University shows results from an online survey of 398 North Carolina employers regarding their know...
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Comments on Opening the 10 GHz band for Shared Use
RM No. 11715
The New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute joined Public Knowledge in submitting comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC...
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How The DOTCOM Act Could Endanger Rather Than Protect Internet Freedom
The recent announcement that the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) intends to transfer key Internet domain name ...
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Strategic Empathy
The Afghanistan intervention shows why the U.S. must empathize with its adversaries
As the United States withdraws from Afghanistan, it leaves violence and uncertainty in its wake. The election of a new Afghan president gives some ...
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OTI Sends Letter To Congress on the DOTCOM Bill and the IANA Transition
Today, OTI and a coalition of public interest organizations sent a letter to Congress regarding the IANA transition and the proposed DOTCOM legisla...
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Attention to Global Youth Issues is on the Rise
March and April 2014 have been big months for the world’s youth in terms of inclusion in development and planning agendas. As concerns about the to...
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Focused Comments on E-Rate Modernization
The New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute and Education Policy Program submitted joint comments to the Federal Communications Commissi...
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New America Hosts Launch of Workforce Credentials Coalition
Washington, DC – Today, New America is hosting the inaugural meeting of the Workforce Credentials Coalition. Led by the California Community Colleg...
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Secret 'Cuban Twitter' Poses Big Hurdle For Bloggers, Exiles
"Cuban authorities already try to paint critical bloggers like Yoani Sanchez as U.S.-funded mercenaries, and the report about ZunZuneo will only gi...
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OTI Convenes Researchers to Discuss Data and Discrimination
Building on its work on privacy, civil rights, and social justice, the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute will host a research conv...
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OTI to White House Internet Surveillance is the Biggest Big Data Issue of All
Today, New America's Open Technology Institute submitted comments to the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, the office that's b...
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The Benefit of Savings: Youth Write In
The youth in Kenya were an excited lot as the long-awaited Global Money Week was finally approaching. Marketed and organized by Kenya Post Office S...
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What if the Afghan elections actually work?
Afghans will go to the polls on Saturday to elect their second president since the overthrow of the Taliban in the winter of 2001. You might be won...