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And Data for All
June 17, 2009 Why Obama's Geeky New CIO Wants to Put All Government Info Online Nicholas ThompsonJune 17, 2009 The Obama administration's most radical idea may also be its geekiest: Make nearly every...
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Open Data: Philanthropy’s Future Fuel For Change
Have you used your cell phone to check when the next bus is coming? Searched for info on pending legislation? Looked to see where you can recycle old house paint? If you have, chances are that the...
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Comments on Mobile Broadband Measurement
Author(s): Benjamin LennettDan MeredithSascha Meinrath Dr. Andrew Afflerbach and Shivani Gandhi from Columbia Telecommunications Corporation July 8, 2010 The Benton Foundation, Columbia...
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Robots and Magicians: Yahoo! Pipes
By Dan Meredith and Kara Hadge In one of Carl Sagan's writings he mentions that in the 1800's the average reader could read every book in something like 60 years. At the time of the writing, he said...
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NAF @ SXSW
The string of acronyms in the headline translates to “vote for New America’s panels for this year’s 2011 SXSW Interactive Conference, which will be held March 11-20."The Open Technology Initiative and...
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NAF @ SXSW
The string of acronyms in the headline translates to “vote for New America’s panels for this year’s 2011 SXSW Interactive Conference.”The Open Technology Initiativeand the Media Policy Initiative of...
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Open Education in Higher Ed: Textbooks, OpenCourseWare, and the “S” Word
This is a guest post from Timothy Vollmer, an Open Policy Fellow for Creative Commons. Inside the beltway, there’s been increasing interest from policymakers in exploring the benefits of publicly...
View Article"T-Mobile G2 with Google" Phone Contains Unexpected ‘Feature’ to Overwrite...
Chip on Phone Overwrites User-Preferred Software -- Re-installs Original Firmware.[October 13, 2010 UPDATE: OTI has released this follow-up analysis concerning the policy implications of mobile device...
View ArticleMeasurement Lab Releases Japanese and Chinese Language Versions for Overseas...
October 25, 2010For Immediate Release October 25, 2010Washington, D.C. -- Today, New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative launched Japanese and Chinese language versions of Measurement Lab...
View ArticleWiki Rehab
January 7, 2011 How to save Julian Assange's movement from itself. Evgeny MorozovJanuary 7, 2011American diplomacy seems to have survived Wikileaks's "attack on the international community," as Hillary...
View ArticleWikiLeaks 2.0: Al Jazeera and the Future of Investigative Journalism
Irrespective of your personal feelings about WikiLeaks, the model it pioneered has challenged traditional journalism models and serves as a harbinger of change for 2011. WikiLeaks-esque tools...
View ArticleThe Community Wireless Engineering Game: "Every Network Tells a Story"
When the Open Technology Initiative presented at the Allied Media Conference in June, many of the participants documented it with posts to Twitter and Flickr. We used Storify, an online tool for...
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New Tools for Today's Investigative Journalist
Originally posted on DanBlah.comWhile I am by no means a seasoned investigative journalist, I have the good fortune to work with some. Looking ten years back I couldn't imagine a media organization...
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New Tools for Today's Investigative Journalist
Originally posted on DanBlah.com and cross posted from the Open Technology Initiative.While I am by no means a seasoned investigative journalist, I have the good fortune to work with some. Looking ten...
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Hackerspace + Neighborhood Helping Hands = Community Wireless
On Thursday May 24th, the corner of 16th and Newton Street NW became the eighth node in the growing Mount Pleasant Community Wireless Network. Several folks in the neighborhood and a few team members...
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Call for Paper Proposals
Call for Paper ProposalsIs it working? Evaluating and assessing broadband policyA by-invitation experts’ workshopNew America Foundation September 19-21, 2012With broadband becoming the central means...
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Horizontal Knowledge Sharing: OTI at the Allied Media Conference
This week at the Open Technology Institute, we’re going back to the source of our passion for technology. It’s not about policy objectives or new software features, but rather the inspiration and...
View ArticleCall for Paper Proposals *(extended to July 25, 2012)*
Is it working? Evaluating and assessing broadband policyA by-invitation experts’ workshopNew America FoundationSeptember 19-21, 2012 With broadband becoming the central means for providing information...
View ArticleIDL Launch Party Invite
Remember how the Internet community stopped SOPA? Come on out to Irish Whiskey this Thursday at 8pm for the official launch of the Internet Defense League (IDL), a network of people and organizations...
View ArticleThe Most Important Information Missing From Yelp
September 5, 2012 Crowdsourcing sites and local government should pool their data to better inform consumers. Alissa BlackSeptember 5, 2012Having recently moved to a new city, I turn to Yelp whenever I...
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