5 biggest ed-tech headlines of the week
I’ve been overwhelmed by the amount of major news and announcements lately. So I’m going to take today’s post to round up a few. 1) ConnectED: The Obama administration today announced a new initative...
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The View From Inside Cuba's Not-So-Worldwide Web
The “Palacio Central de Computacion” lies in the heart of central Havana, amid battered monuments and the crumbling shells of grand hotels. Despite its “palace” billing, the design of the squat blue...
View ArticleWhat the Internet of the future could do for learning
EngageCV, 3-D telepresence using the Kinect Mozilla Ignite is an open innovation challenge sponsored by the nonprofit that makes the Firefox web browser together with the the National Science...
View ArticleSugata Mitra and schools without teachers
Sugata Mitra at TED 2013 Since Sugata Mitra won the $1 million TED prize in March, the education world has continued to buzz with debate over his work on “Self-Organized Learning Environments” or...
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Australians' personal information accessed almost 300,000 times
Government departments and agencies accessed metadata from phone calls and internet use 293,501 times in 2011-12Forty one government departments and agencies - from police forces to the RSPCA -...
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First POST: Connectivity
Exclusively for Personal Democracy Plus subscribers: What's up with Syria's Internet access, how the federal government is changing its stance on privacy and surveillance, and more in today's round-up...
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The future of behaviour: concepts and manners for the 21st century
Brushing up your cyber-hygiene, maintaining intimacy haptics with your partner, and engineering your personal environment are going to be vitalIdeas and technologies are changing the world. As they...
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First POST: Bachmann's Tea Party is Over
Exclusively for Personal Democracy Plus subscribers: Michele Bachmann's Congressional career is coming to an end; Facebook says it has failed to suppress messages of violence against women; and more in...
View ArticleCuba Increases Internet Access From Designated Public Centers
Cuba opened 118 public centers with Internet access on the island. Called Nauta, the service can be requested in any Cuban State Telecommunications (ETESCA) commercial unit that has partnered with the...
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New International Coalition to TPP Negotiators: We Demand a Fair Deal for the...
A coalition of organizations from the around the world representing a diversity of interests to ask for A Fair Deal on intellectual property (IP) in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). The...
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Project Loon: Google plans balloon network to extend internet reach
Google says balloons could be an option for connecting rural, remote and underserved areas to internetMobile phone users could receive signals from balloons floating in the stratosphere if a project...
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Why It Might Be Time To Consider Online Teaching
The ability to leverage the Internet to actually deliver live and recorded class room sessions and educational material has been available for years for college students. However, online teaching has...
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Debate Over Role of the Internet in Developing Burma
"You're going to an Internet freedom forum in Burma?" a friend of mine asked me. "Is that even legal?" In another signal of Burma's technological and cultural-political changes, a small group of local...
View ArticleStudents Speak Up: Trust Us With Devices
A recent survey of students shows they aren’t able to access the full range of learning tools available to them due to firewalls that keep them from social networks and a range of websites, as well as...
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Mesh Networking, Good. Overbroad Patents, Bad. Help Us Protect Mesh Networking.
Earlier this year, we announced that along with the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, we were challenging six patent applications that, if granted, could threaten...
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GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world's communications
Exclusive: British spy agency collects and stores vast quantities of global email messages, Facebook posts, internet histories and calls, and shares them with NSA, latest documents from Edward Snowden...
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First POST: Access
Exclusively for Personal Democracy Plus subscribers: James Comey vs. a former judge on FISA courts; looking for Britain's "armchair auditors;" and more in today's round-up of news about technology in...
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Mixed Messages From Iran On Internet Access
A week after Iran's minister for communications and information technology told the media the country slowed down the Internet before the presidential election on June 14, the president-elect Hassan...
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First POST: The Verdict
Exclusively for Personal Democracy Plus subscribers: Following the ups and downs of municipally owned Wi-Fi; reacting to the verdict in the Trayvon Martin case; and more in today's round-up of news...
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Voiceless in the south: we are cut off from shaping our own future
Without reliable internet access, development professionals in the south have no voice. The danger is then that you rely on others to speak for you – and hope they get it rightI learned an interesting...
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