News and Notes Roundup - August 3, 2015
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Tech News:
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White House hits reset button on WeThePeople
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As Tech Booms, Workers Turn to Coding for Career Change
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Researchers Unveiled a New, Serious Vulnerability In Tor
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Facebook Expands in Politics, and Campaigns Find Much to Like
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China Pushes to Rewrite Rules of Global Internet: Officials aim to control online discourse and reduce U.S. influence
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Lessons from Chinese grassroots media
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White House calls for upgrade to law protecting consumer cloud data from law enforcement
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Musk, Wozniak and Hawking urge ban on warfare AI and autonomous weapons: More than 1,000 experts and leading robotics researchers sign open letter warning of military artificial intelligence arms race
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Russians hackers used Twitter, photos to reach U.S. computers
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Wyden, Internet privacy guru, pushes back on cyber, intel bills
ICT4D:
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Architecting for Data: Four ways nonprofits can cut through the data hype and start using data on purpose.
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Libraries Increase Access to Online Services in Myanmar
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Insights on global digital policy: Inclusion, social justice, and the bridging of the digital divide
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Technology And Changemaking: The Languages Of The Future
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Sri Lanka is considering Google's Project Loon for country-wide internet coverage
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Integrating technology too tightly with education presents its own kind of problems
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Matibabu, malaria diagnosis app wins funding from Museveni at Mozilla Festival East Africa
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A new paradigm for reproductive health: Using technology to reach young people
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Data in action: The role of data in humanitarian disasters
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Supporting the ICT sector in Somalia
Mobile News:
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One year later, Internet.org opens to more mobile operators: Any mobile operator can now partner with the Facebook-backed initiative to expand Internet access around the world
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12 ways mobile money can go further: How can mobile money services reach more people? Our expert panel had these ideas for how other countries can replicate M-Pesa’s success in Kenya
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Mobile Money Bulk Payment Products: Capturing the Market Opportunity of Global Development Orgs
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Mobile Banking Struggles to Gain Traction in Indonesia: Most Indonesians have mobile phones, but few use them for financial services
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'Telephone farmers' reaping the benefits of agri-tech
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How your phone's battery life can be used to invade your privacy: A group of researchers have demonstrated how to track users with nothing more than their remaining battery power, which could compromise privacy
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How technology is fueling the evolution of Africa’s financial services sector
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Why South Africa will rapidly adopt mobile money