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How to build healthier digital ecosystems
For the past four years, the Open Technology Institute (OTI) and the Allied Media Projects (AMP) have been working with communities to build wirele...
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Our recent policy brief, “Regulatory Environments for Youth Savings in the Developing World” tackled two primary barriers to youth financial inclus...
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| October 30, 2014
New America
The day after the attack on the Canadian parliament, Prime Minister Stephen Harper promised that he would support new legislation that gave the Can...
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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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A collection of essays from New America about homegrown terrorism, and how to prevent it
In preparation for our event, “Preventing the Next Homegrown Attack” on Wednesday, October 29th, here are 7 things you should read on homegrown ter...
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It used to be all about the house. If you were a young person seeking lifelong financial security, homeownership was, for most of the 20th century,...
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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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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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And what to do about it
If you're between 18 and 34 years old, you should be getting ready for the prime of your life — at least according to recent history. That means ge...
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Featured Report
A new report from Young Invincibles, A Federal Work Study Reform Agenda to Better Serve Low Income Students, highlights the new reality for college...
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Inequality New studies show economic inequality has been on the rise for decades. Economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman published new researc...
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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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| October 23, 2014
New America On Today’s Most-Discussed Generation and Its Challenges
New America
In a series of six in-depth articles published today in Vox, thinkers across New America’s policy programs analyze how the stakes are different for...
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| October 23, 2014
Nneka Eze
Nneka Eze, Lagos Office Director for Dalberg Global Development, explains how health officials in Nigeria used “kanju creativity” – former New Amer...
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| October 23, 2014
A Playbook
If you care about the future of the Internet, you should be paying attention to what’s happening in Busan, South Korea, right now. You may not have...
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| October 23, 2014
You’re a health official trying to contain a new case of Ebola in a major world city. Who’s your first call – the country’s top health official? Or...
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| October 23, 2014
We are in the midst of a journalism revival. Startups like Business Insider, Vox, Vice and FiveThirtyEight are reimagining not just newsgathering, ...
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| October 23, 2014
Imagine that China launches a cyber attack on the United States tomorrow. It devastates systems, crippling the financial sector or causing loss of ...
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| October 23, 2014
E.K.
The people, the army, the Resistance. Lebanon’s longstanding formula, where “resistance” is a euphemism for the Shiite political party and militia ...
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| October 23, 2014
Nanette Fondas
The Daddy Bonus. The Mommy Penalty. We’ve seen a lot of news recently about how the pay gap between men and women is sometimes tied to parenthood. ...
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At least since the first “billion-dollar election,” in 1996, money in politics has seemed like one of those perpetual problems that we wring our ha...
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| October 23, 2014
Anita Krohn Traaseth
From the outside, life for a woman in Norway seems nearly perfect. According to UN Reports, Norwegian women enjoy the best standard of living in th...