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Obama Needs to Make Infrastructure, Cybersecurity a Priority
Now that President Obama has won his reelection bid, his administration is looking into key issues to set the agenda for the next four years. Of course the impending fiscal cliff and the down economy...
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Broadband Access and Human Rights
Between attending the Federal Communications Commission’s Broadband Summit and hosting our own broadband webinar last week, we are bursting with ideas on the subject. Broadband access is now viewed...
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Could The Next Mark Zuckerberg Be An Ex-Offender?
Prison activists have long advocated that recidivism among ex-offenders goes down when proper rehabilitation and re-entry training is offered while they are still in prison. The United States has the...
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E-waste Management: Lessons from Brazil
Brazil is the world’s fifth largest country with a rapidly growing economy. The country recently hosted the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio + 20), the largest ever gathering...
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Using Technology to Fill Youth Employment Gaps
Global youth unemployment has been on the rise in recent years. According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), “almost 74 million people in the 15 to 24 age group are unemployed around the...
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Addressing Two Social Issues Through Entrepreneurship
As you all know, we are big supporters of better electronics recycling worldwide and providing better job opportunities for ex-offenders. So it is great to see a growing number of entrepreneurs...
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Will Silicon Valley Ever Become More Racially Integrated?
The lack of racial diversity in Silicon Valley has been a topic of discussion for a long time. While America is quickly becoming a minority-majority country, this is not reflected in the high tech...
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How to Give the Gift of E-Learning
Education is one of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone. Access to education is, as Horace Mann calls it, “the great equalizer of the conditions of man – the balance-wheel of the social...
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Telecom World 2013 Global Previews
Greetings from Bangkok, where we are attending Telecom World 2013, the world’s largest gathering of ICT professionals. In the coming weeks, we will give reports on everything we saw and the policy...
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Digital Economy Year in Review
This has been quite a year for our Dismantle the Digital Caste System campaign and exploring how to make the digital economy more accessible to all. We hope you all learned from our campaign, as we...
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How Data Journalism Is Reshaping Media Development
As we all have known for a while, journalism and the way it is delivered has changed drastically over the last decade, as more people turn to technology for their news. Up until recently, journalists...
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Using Online Citizen Tools For Police Surveillance
The deaths of Michael Brown and John Crawford have opened up a new discussion about the thin line between police action and citizen’s rights and especially the rights of black and Latino males. A...
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Millennium Development Goals Tech Road Map Year In Review
This is part of our year-long series “Millennium Development Goals Tech Roadmap” Thanks to everyone who supported this series. We hope we brought more awareness to this crucial global agenda and will...
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Code 7370 Turns Convicts Into Programmers
For the last few years, we have been following discussions in the United States around providing rehabilitation and STEM training to convicted felons who need a second chance at life. San Quentin...
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STEM Scouts Fosters The Next Generation of Innovators
The lack of Americans pursuing careers in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) sector continues to be a problem in the U.S. economy. However, efforts to recruit more people into these...
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Eased Cuba Sanctions Present ICT Opportunities and Progress
Earlier this year the Obama administration announced that it will re-establish diplomatic relations with Cuba, which has been under an embargo for the last half century. The communist country was also...
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Fighting Extremism One App or Tweet At A Time
The rapid rise of the Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) has challenged the way governments rage wars with terrorist groups. Unlike al Qaeda and other previous militant groups, ISIS has been successful...
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Internet Access for All Americans Finally?
Last month the Obama administration launched the ConnectHome initiative, another effort to address income inequality in the United States through technology. While 98 percent of all Americans have...
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Bay Area Youth YouTube Video Inspired By Desmond Tutu
The Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation (DTPF) announced the release of the song and music video “Peace3”, which is the result of a collaboration between the Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation and Bay Area youth...
View ArticleIndigenous People Fight Oil Drilling with Technology
Decades of oil drilling have severely contaminated the land occupied by Ecuador’s Waorani indigenous people. With the help of Digital Democracy, an NGO that supports marginalized communities in using...
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