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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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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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Hyping the terror threat?
But is there any real reason to think that Americans are no safer than was the case a couple of years back? Not according to a study by the New Ame...
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Riding Financial Inclusion Disruption: Are Youth Savers the Surfers or the Wave?
The following article, written by YouthSave's very own Rani Deshpande of Save the Children, originally appeared on the Center for Financal Inclusio...
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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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Is College Worth It for Me? How Adult Students without Degrees Think about Going (Back) to School
Public Agenda recently released results from a national survey of adult prospective college students (defined as 18-55 year olds who do not hold an...
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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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The Price of College
A Background Primer No start of an academic year goes by without renewed consternation about the ever-increasing price of a college education. Alth...
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A Column Focused on Sri Lanka: Economic Inclusion of All Segments of Society for Economic Empowerment
The Daily Financial Times recently published an article entitled, "Economic Inclusion of All Segments of Society for Economic Empowerment." The imp...
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Google's Schmidt: We likely are in the last years when states can really censor speech
We're all familiar with the concepts of "soft power" and "hard power" in international relations, but there's a new kind of power afoot, at least a...
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Did Obama keep his drone promises?
On May 23, President Barack Obama gave a major speech at the National Defense University in Washington stating his intention to recalibrate his cou...
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Designing California's Secure Choice Savings Program
Policy Considerations for Building an Automatic and State-Based Savings Platform
Increasing access to retirement savings plans and creating incentives for low- and moderate-income workers to participate is a cornerstone of a pol...
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Looking Beyond Headcount: An Interview with Bank of Kathmandu CEO Ajay Shrestha
Just a couple of weeks ago we pulled back the curtains on a young boy’s life, a student in a small classroom at the base of Nepal’s Himalayan Mount...
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Ohio’s Tax Time Coalition
Building Assets through Free Tax Preparation in Franklin County, 2013
Throughout the country, a network of over 4,300 Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) sites helps over 1.2 million low-income taxpayers file their...
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El Ahorro es Importante - Saving is Important
Just this past May we were very proud to announce that Colombia received the country award for their 2013 Global Money Week activities during the s...
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Degrees of Debt: Student Borrowing and Loan Repayment of Bachelor’s Degree Recipients 1 Year After Graduating: 1994, 2001, and 2009
A recent report from the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics analyzes three cohorts worth of data from the Bacc...
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Rapping for al Qaeda in Syria
In August, al Qaeda's propaganda arm released a video starring the German rapper Deso Dogg.
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New America Ed Launches EdCentral
New America education policy analysis and information is now available on a fantastic new platform: www.edcentral.org. Please update your bookmarks...
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The Rise of Big Chocolate
It's an industry that's largely invisible to consumers, yet central to feeding the world's sweet tooth. Cocoa processing -- the process of turning ...
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A Matter of Degrees: High-Impact Practices for Community College Student Engagement
A new report based on four national surveys from the Center for Community College Student Engagement finds that while community colleges have been ...