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Text4Change: There Is An App For That

Submitted by Jennifer L. Schenker on February 13, 2011

One only has to look at events in the Middle East in recent weeks to understand the role of mobile phones in fomenting change. “It is impossible to silence the civil rebellion in Egypt because access to the internet gives people a voice,” Israeli President Shimon Peres said in a recent speech. “The younger generation will arm themselves with iPhones instead of stones.”Read more

OECD Publishes New Broadband Stats: Six European Countries Maintain Their Lead

Submitted by Jennifer L. Schenker on May 20, 2009

The OECD has just released its official broadband statistics for December 2008. Separately, as part of the OECD’s ongoing response to the economic crisis, a new report has just been released that focuses the role of broadband investment in aiding economic recovery. This paper argues that policy makers need to evaluate the costs and benefits of any public investment in telecommunication infrastructure and select projects which can stimulate current demand but simultaneously expand the productive capacity of the economy in the longer term.Read more

MIT Professor David Clark On The Challenges Ahead For the Internet

Submitted by Jennifer L. Schenker on May 19, 2009

 David D. Clark, a senior researcher at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, has played a key role in the development of the Internet's architecture since the 1970s.  While in Paris on May 18 Clark talked to Informilo about the challenges ahead, including the inevitability of usage caps in the age of video, how to best address security concerns and what the Net will look like 15 years from now. Click "read more" to see the video.Read more

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