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Monday Round-Up: The Battleground for Internet Freedom

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In an effort to combat restrictive internet policy, such as ACTA or SOPA, a number of internet sites including…
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Monday Round-Up: When Movies Come True

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When "Minority Report" was released, it featured slick-looking, futuristic technology and a psychic police force. But is predictive crime fighting no longer limited to the silver screen? In this…

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The more you know...

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"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Albert Einstein

...and perhaps technology allows the opportunity to use both. That's at least what I believe. Before moving to DC, and starting as a Project Assistant on the ICT team here at…

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The Monday Round-Up: #SouthSudan and #opendata

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Person rises above a crowd, waving a Sudanese flag in the wind.

July 9, 2012 marks South Sudan's first independence day. We've been keeping an eye on the world's youngest nation since the…
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OGP: Progress and Challenges

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cloak of secrecy

As a part of our series on  last month’s

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First in ICT Flight: Monday Round-Up

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Today marks the anniversary of Steve Fossett's record-setting solo flight around the world in a hot air balloon in 2002, which in turn landed on the same sad…

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What's Happening in Sudan?

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Illustration. Silhouettes holding protest signs written in Arabic.

Sudanese citizens have been demonstrating since June 18, following a series of brutal crackdowns of demonstrations against the announcement of a new round of austerity measures impacting food and fuel prices. Protests are…

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"Something Must Be Done-ism" - the dangers of controlling the internet

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One of the fascinating threads woven throughout PDF was the way in which the networked world has made life hard for the gatekeepers of information, whether the copyright industry or control-minded governments. It’s a new world for those whose…

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This is the part where I pretend I'm new.

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My name is Alayna, and I'm a geek.

But not your typical geek - okay, yes, I do love Battlestar Galactica, I follow Stephen Hawking on Twitter (even though the last time he Tweeted was over two years ago), and I may or may not be…

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How the Internet *really* works: The Monday Round-Up

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The internet is a series of tubes? False. The internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks.

In addition to forming the very organization that in turn produced a cool democracy-supporting non-profit (read: us), President Ronald Reagan declared June 25 as…

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