The article provides recommendations for new FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's priorities which include: (1) Continuing to enable competition in the internet ecosystem to fuel innovation; (2) Improving digital literacy to help Americans gain important online skills; and (3) Expanding broadband infrastructure to more areas without access to high-speed internet to boost the economy.
Towards a Citizen Internet: The Opportunity for Civic SoftwareJennifer Pahlka
The last decade has seen the organic growth of the web as a platform, enabling near-frictionless community-building, social communication, and collective action. But the institutions citizens support to represent our collective will and achieve our common goals have been left behind, largely by their own design. Today, several factors are converging to make recrafting of government possible, and a key ingredient are the very hackers and designers who see the enormous opportunity to build a "citizen Internet."
By CEO of EDEL Technology Consulting at IMANI Youth Event
Traditional media and bureaucratic restrictions are no longer walls high enough to deprive our society of accountable governance through youth activism. Technology offers the youths with innovative and multi-faceted ways to:
1. Voice out their opinions on government policies and issues of concern to their target audience through multifaceted social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Blogs etc. Good examples would be the "Dumsor March" in 2015, "Bring back out Girls campaign", “The Occupy Ghana Campaign” and many others.
2. Test government efficacy by making all elements and information associated to governance and government decisions accessible to both the government and citizenry such as figures and technical related to public projects for example, the recent "bus branding saga" etc.
3. Facilitate accountable governance in data collection and record keeping through data management systems
4. Simplify and make all elements and information associated to governance and government decisions accessible to both the government and citizenry through interactive websites and mobile applications.
Towards a Citizen Internet: The Opportunity for Civic SoftwareJennifer Pahlka
The last decade has seen the organic growth of the web as a platform, enabling near-frictionless community-building, social communication, and collective action. But the institutions citizens support to represent our collective will and achieve our common goals have been left behind, largely by their own design. Today, several factors are converging to make recrafting of government possible, and a key ingredient are the very hackers and designers who see the enormous opportunity to build a "citizen Internet."
By CEO of EDEL Technology Consulting at IMANI Youth Event
Traditional media and bureaucratic restrictions are no longer walls high enough to deprive our society of accountable governance through youth activism. Technology offers the youths with innovative and multi-faceted ways to:
1. Voice out their opinions on government policies and issues of concern to their target audience through multifaceted social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Blogs etc. Good examples would be the "Dumsor March" in 2015, "Bring back out Girls campaign", “The Occupy Ghana Campaign” and many others.
2. Test government efficacy by making all elements and information associated to governance and government decisions accessible to both the government and citizenry such as figures and technical related to public projects for example, the recent "bus branding saga" etc.
3. Facilitate accountable governance in data collection and record keeping through data management systems
4. Simplify and make all elements and information associated to governance and government decisions accessible to both the government and citizenry through interactive websites and mobile applications.
This presentation explores the intersection of social media and the Internet of things. By applying futurist techniques for developing foresight strategies, the presentation provides a basic introduction to tools like STEEP analysis and scenario planning.
This talk describes how user experience professional can aim their skills where they are desperately needed: at our interfaces to government. What would happen if we felt about government the way we feel about our iphones? Can we insist that interfaces to government can be simple, beautiful, and easy to use? Code for America is creating these simple, beautiful interfaces and showing what's possible; we want more UX practitioners to join the cause!
Today I would like to talk about all the topics about the evolution of the internet, but also of ARPANET Project, Packet Networking, World Wide Web and some Statistics.
The first thing we have to know is that before 1957 computers only worked on one task at a time.
Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, will discuss the Project’s research about how the internet and cell phones are affecting citizens and how government agencies have new opportunities to plug into citizens’ social networks as they try to solve problems in their lives. He will talk about the reasons people rely more and more on their social networks as they share ideas, learn, and seek support. Government agencies now have the chance to act as “nodes” in those networks. 4/22/09
Mobile search and marketing are growing globally, and while many people look to the western world for mobile innovations, the real leaders in mobile technology lie in the East and emerging markets. MediaVision, an SEO and SEM company based in South Africa and London, looks at the growth of the mobile market and its impact for internet marketers.
This presentation explores the intersection of social media and the Internet of things. By applying futurist techniques for developing foresight strategies, the presentation provides a basic introduction to tools like STEEP analysis and scenario planning.
This talk describes how user experience professional can aim their skills where they are desperately needed: at our interfaces to government. What would happen if we felt about government the way we feel about our iphones? Can we insist that interfaces to government can be simple, beautiful, and easy to use? Code for America is creating these simple, beautiful interfaces and showing what's possible; we want more UX practitioners to join the cause!
Today I would like to talk about all the topics about the evolution of the internet, but also of ARPANET Project, Packet Networking, World Wide Web and some Statistics.
The first thing we have to know is that before 1957 computers only worked on one task at a time.
Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, will discuss the Project’s research about how the internet and cell phones are affecting citizens and how government agencies have new opportunities to plug into citizens’ social networks as they try to solve problems in their lives. He will talk about the reasons people rely more and more on their social networks as they share ideas, learn, and seek support. Government agencies now have the chance to act as “nodes” in those networks. 4/22/09
Mobile search and marketing are growing globally, and while many people look to the western world for mobile innovations, the real leaders in mobile technology lie in the East and emerging markets. MediaVision, an SEO and SEM company based in South Africa and London, looks at the growth of the mobile market and its impact for internet marketers.
Community Based Broadband Report by Executive Office of the PresidentDaniel X. O'Neil
Affordable, reliable access to high speed broadband is critical to U.S. economic growth and competitiveness. Upgrading to higher-speed broadband lets consumers use the Internet in new ways, increases the productivity of American individuals and businesses, and drives innovation throughout the digital ecosystem. As this report describes, while the private sector has made investments to dramatically expand broadband access in the U.S., challenges still remain. Many markets remain unserved or underserved. Others do not benefit from the kind of competition that drives down costs and improves quality. To help fill the void, hundreds of towns and cities around the country have developed their own locally-owned networks. This report describes the benefits of higher-speed broadband access, the current challenges facing the market, and the benefits of competition – including competition from community broadband networks.
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Why Broadband Matters: A Look at its Impact and Application for CitiesEd Dodds
By Julia Pulidindi May 2013 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20004-1763 | 202-626-3000 | Fax: 202-626-3043 | www.nlc.org National League of Cities
Access to the Internet has greatly expanded and the focus should now be on the willingness and ability of citizens to use it for productive purposes. The digital divide is now an issue that goes beyond the access gap, but also to be broadened to include underpinning divides, such as quality of access—the speed—and the ability to use it, if efforts to close the gap are to create real benefits. Our latest report Redefining Digital Divide reconsidered the nature of the digital divide and examined the strategies to overcome it in different countries. Download the full report on http://bit.ly/1a2p1iG
Digital Divide The Factors, Developments and SuggestionsBeth Schoren
The Factors of Who, Where & What
With New Commitments Developing &
Suggestions for Achievement that Meet Four United Nations Goals on Sustainability Target Date 2030
role of women and girls in various terror groupssadiakorobi2
Women have three distinct types of involvement: direct involvement in terrorist acts; enabling of others to commit such acts; and facilitating the disengagement of others from violent or extremist groups.
In a May 9, 2024 paper, Juri Opitz from the University of Zurich, along with Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider form Georgetown University, discussed the importance of linguistic expertise in natural language processing (NLP) in an era dominated by large language models (LLMs).
The authors explained that while machine translation (MT) previously relied heavily on linguists, the landscape has shifted. “Linguistics is no longer front and center in the way we build NLP systems,” they said. With the emergence of LLMs, which can generate fluent text without the need for specialized modules to handle grammar or semantic coherence, the need for linguistic expertise in NLP is being questioned.
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हम आग्रह करते हैं कि जो भी सत्ता में आए, वह संविधान का पालन करे, उसकी रक्षा करे और उसे बनाए रखे।" प्रस्ताव में कुल तीन प्रमुख हस्तक्षेप और उनके तंत्र भी प्रस्तुत किए गए। पहला हस्तक्षेप स्वतंत्र मीडिया को प्रोत्साहित करके, वास्तविकता पर आधारित काउंटर नैरेटिव का निर्माण करके और सत्तारूढ़ सरकार द्वारा नियोजित मनोवैज्ञानिक हेरफेर की रणनीति का मुकाबला करके लोगों द्वारा निर्धारित कथा को बनाए रखना और उस पर कार्यकरना था।
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‘वोटर्स विल मस्ट प्रीवेल’ (मतदाताओं को जीतना होगा) अभियान द्वारा जारी हेल्पलाइन नंबर, 4 जून को सुबह 7 बजे से दोपहर 12 बजे तक मतगणना प्रक्रिया में कहीं भी किसी भी तरह के उल्लंघन की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए खुला रहेगा।
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A Blueprint for Wheeler's FCC | Christina Gagnier
January 27, 2014
A Blueprint for Wheeler's FCC
Posted: 01/09/2014 10:34 am
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On Thursday, the new Federal Communications Chairman Tom Wheeler will make his first visit to California to speak at a town
hall-style event in Oakland, on the heels of several FCC commissioners speaking at the Consumer Electronics Show, one of
the tech industries yearly gatherings. In anticipation of that event, here are three items Wheeler should consider to help improve
digital literacy and high-speed Internet access in California and throughout the United States.
First, the FCC Chairman's top priority should be to continue enabling competition throughout the "ecosystem" that makes up the
Internet -- all the companies that build networks, create apps and offer services on the Internet. Competition is the engine that
fuels Silicon Valley, and it has quickened the pace of innovation in California. While the rivalries between Silicon Valley giants
like Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft, Google and Apple are well known, no less important is the rivalry among Internet providers
who compete to give customers the best possible service in order to stay ahead of their counterparts. These providers offer the
familiar services of voice, video, chat and data and use a variety of methods to do so -- over fiber-optic, cable, satellite and fixed
and mobile wireless networks -- which, along with the Internet content companies, all compete to be our favored portal to the
digital world.
While we famously know of Moore's Law and the rapid pace in which innovation revolutionizes tech, we also know that it is
almost impossible for regulations to keep up. That is why purely a focus on regulations designed for past industries, such as the
copper-based, monopoly-era telephone system, could do serious harm to the dynamism of Internet-based economy in
California. The FCC should shift its focus under Wheeler to tackling issues that are more manageable and would result in
immediate gains, such as digital literacy.
Second, while it may appear that everyone in Silicon Valley is online, seemingly almost 24/7, there are many who remain
technologically disenfranchised in tech's own backyard. Tens of millions of Americans are living without the digital literacy skills
they will need for the future. In what seems like basic skills to many of us, these "digitally illiterate" Americans cannot or do not
know how to send email, search for jobs online, or video chat with friends and family.
Digital literacy efforts can give Americans the ability to navigate the Internet. My company, TRAIL, for example, has created an
online application that teaches people these critical online skills. Schools are joining these types of efforts, supported by
organizations like Code.org, to put more emphasis on STEM subjects such as computer programming and web development -skills increasingly in demand in our high-tech economy.
To bridge the digital divide, we need to devote more resources toward improving digital literacy. A recent Pew Internet and
American Life Project report found that the leading reason for why people do not use a broadband connect at home is that
people saw the Internet as irrelevant in their daily lives. According to Pew, 34 percent find the Internet is just not relevant. This
finding underscores that all stakeholders and community leaders should come together to strengthen digital literacy so that
Americans can realize the full importance of the Internet today, as we all very much do here in California.
Finally, along with empowering Americans with digital literacy skills and encouraging them to get online, we can do more to
build our nation's broadband infrastructure to the remaining places that do not have it. As more Americans go online, companies
are investing heavily in this growing sector. The Progressive Policy Institute has found that six broadband companies invested
over $50 billion in 2013 alone to improve our country's networks, making them faster and more widespread. Fortifying these
broadband resources boosts our economy and creates jobs.
Robust high-speed Internet helped jumpstart the app economy, which the Progressive Policy Institute has calculated as
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A Blueprint for Wheeler's FCC | Christina Gagnier
supporting 750,000 jobs around the country. With more broadband at their disposal, innovators throughout the United States will
be able to come up with ideas to take advantage of our increasing connectivity.
As we move into a new year, an election year, and a new era at the FCC, it is vital that we move our national broadband policy
in the right direction. It is also critical that a national digital literacy policy be adopted, with an agenda that enables growth and
innovation in California and nationwide.
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