Published on April 21st, 2020Written by Toussaint Nothias In 2016, Facebook’s grand project to ‘connect the unconnected’ was banned in India after a year-long national debate led by net neutrality activists. Globally, however, the project kept expanding, particularly across Africa: by the summer of 2019, at least 32 African nations […]
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Published on February 21st, 2020Written by María Alvarez Malvido Redes por la Diversidad, Equidad y Sustentabilidad A.C Indigenous Peoples across the world have proven that technology can be a tool for autonomy when it is owned by the community and managed through the community’s decision-making processes. In Mexico, where 68 […]
Published on February 21st, 2020Written by Roger Baig Viñas Guifi.net (a play on words combining the name of the Village where it was started, Gurb, and WiFi) is a well-known success case of community networks. It was started by local villagers in 2004 in a rural area of Catalonia to […]
Published on November 11th, 2019Written By Greta Byrum and Ever Bussey Kopper Glo, the coal mining company that has ruled the economy of the Clear Fork Valley of Eastern Tennessee for the last sixty years, claims a legacy of environmental stewardship and community involvement. Yet its stock in trade is […]
Published on November 6th, 2019Written by Fabian Prieto-Ñañez. Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Science, Technology and Society at Virginia Tech. On March 28, 2019, the community television station CABLECIMA TV1 moved from their original site to a new house in the San Luis neighborhood in Bogota, Colombia. Big satellite dishes, […]
Published on October 22nd, 2019Written by Josefina Buschmann, Chilean researcher and filmmaker In October 2017, images of phone antennas, WhatsApp and Telegram text messages, audios of phone conversations, and aerial surveillance videos appeared in a prime time news broadcast in Chile, showing the “inside view” of a police intelligence […]
Published on October 20th, 2019Written by Alan Zhang, GMTaC Lab Research Affiliate & Graduate Student, MIT Sloan School of Management In late June 2019, Professor Lisa Parks and I met with the Blackfeet community in Browning Montana, and led discussions at Blackfeet Community College about local experiences with internet and […]
Published on October 9th, 2019Written by Colin Rhinesmith, Assistant Professor in the Simmons University School of Library and Information Science In many communities across the United States, particularly in rural areas, the public library is often the only place where people can gain access to the Internet.1 It is also […]
Published on September 27th, 2019Written by Tara Hite, instructor of computing and information technology at Blackfeet Community College. In August 2018 I started a full-time position at Blackfeet Community College (BCC) in Browning, Montana as the computer science and information technology instructor. Upon starting this role, it was made very clear to […]