"ultimately, I hope we can build something that encompasses more real-time data about the wide-ranging economic impacts of networks and the web. An open data platform and API, across the web, for impact metrics."
The NYU Steinhardt Initiative for Internet and Network Culture aims to generate new knowledge about the ways in which the internet and networked media are reshaping social life, culture, and commerce.
This December, the world’s governments will meet to decide if the International Telecommunication Union—a UN agency—should become involved in governing the Internet. Currently, the ITU’s treaty does not address Internet technical standards, infrastructure, or content. Some governments are advocating expansion of the ITU’s authority to include Internet regulation. The issue poses risks to free expression, access to information, and privacy.
Nice short video on the importance of internet freedom, and its relevance to other social movement of the past.
Are We Wired for Change? (by Ford Foundation)
(via Video: High fiber | Need to Know | PBS)
Great short video from @rickgkarr on the state of broadband in the world and why the US is so behind
(via nickgrossman)
"Whether you think the Internet Defense League stands for truth, justice and the American way, like a superhero, really depends on where you stand on the issues it supports. Regardless of your opinions, though, one thing you can probably appreciate is the potential of a system like this to give power to everyday people and put them on almost even footing with lobbyists in DC with loads of cash at their disposal."
Senator @ChuckSchumer on the senate floor, advocating for the Franken-Paul amendment and propping the #NYCtech scene.
(via nickgrossman)
"The massive innovation and investment fueled by the Internet have been driven by consumer choice in both devices and applications,” FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said. “The steps taken today will not only protect consumer choice, but defend certainty for innovators to continue to deliver new services and apps without fear of being blocked."
"The opportunity is to define what exactly it means to be a Citizen of the Internet. We need big and bold thinking here because for the first time we have more or less all of humanity connected to each other. So to be a Citizen of the Internet could and should mean to put the world and humanity first."
"Luckily for people who live outside the bubble of Silicon Valley, there is a wonderful group of creators here who believe that everything is broken and that technology, creativity and guts can actually fix it."
Today marks the launch of the Internet Defense League, an effort led by Fight for the Future to build permanent infrastructure for defending the internet.
The problem of money in politics — and one idea for hacking our way to a solution.
via Hacking Society
(via nickgrossman)
"Tapping a button and having something show up is magical when it comes to transportation,” he tells the Times. “We feel it will be magical for other things too."
One of the things I’ve learned over the past few months is that the fight for the future is being fought on many, many fronts — and these fights take all shapes and sizes, and are constantly shifting and re-forming.
Here are a few that are hot this week — each of which will be really interesting to follow, to see how the surrounding activism and political maneuvering plays out
