Posts tagged: Openness
MILWAUKEE NEIGHBORHOOD 20 (MN-20)
An Alliance for the People
This is an Announcement.
Milwaukee, WI -- MILWAUKEE NEIGHBORHOOD 20/MN-20, a subgroup of the Stimulus2Recovery Initiative designed to gain information and leadership from stakeholders of the City of Milwaukee.
It is to help eliminate "Concentrated Poverty" in Milwaukee neighborhoods.
It promotes communication, sharing of thoughts of common good for neighborhood
At the FCC and in Congress: A New Paradigm for Media Policy
All of us who have been pushing for a new National Broadband Plan should be on alert today — and excited that the FCC has taken a vital step toward that goal.
Yesterday, the FCC announced an official “Notice of Inquiry” to get things started. Admittedly, “Notice of Inquiry” sounds pretty dull and lifeless, but it’s anything but.
Censorship, regardless of it's reason is still censorship
One of the things I keep hearing from MultiService Providers (MSO's) is that they have to moderate access to certain parts of the Internet because, as they claim, a few "bad apples" are spoiling it for the rest of us. They use more technical jargon explaining how 2% of the subscribers are using 50% of the bandwidth.
Change or Cha-Ching
Change has come to America. Well, sort of.
On "K" Street - home to Washington's most powerful corporate lobbyists - it's business as usual.
Nowhere is this more evident than in the scrum of lobbyists gathering around President Obama's economic stimulus package.
Making Cellular Phones an Open Platform
For the rest of the world, open wireless networks are the key to getting new people online.
An Open Internet - Where Content is Really King
The entertainment industry isn't that different than other industries. Sure, we can tell people what movie star we saw buying fruit at the farmer's market yesterday, but free market principles apply to show business the way they do to any business. Big companies buy smaller companies. Or worse, small companies are shut out, can no longer compete, and close their doors.
Our Digital Renaissance
Today, we are undoubtedly in a renaissance period, powered by the open, affordable, and accessible Internet. Almost anyone with a computer or cell phone can participate in a worldwide conversation, turning their web site or blog into an interactive television network with immediate, borderless reach.
We all rely on open infrastructure to achieve our personal and communal goals.
Open Community Media
Openness with regard to broadband media access is about basic human rights - Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers" (UN, 1948).
Government != Open
If you want an open infrastructure, or open business practices, or open policy.. the last place you should look, is the home of the FBI and the CIA. If you want your Internet connection to be faster, tell the FBI to pull all of their core routers out of the clandestine wiring cabinets installed in major telephone company facilities.
An ‘Open’ Invitation to Protect the Internet
Since its birth, openness has been the Internet’s heart and soul. Unlike other forms of mass communication, no one owns the Internet. Government and university researchers created what we know today as the Internet, which belongs to the public. Users determine the sites to visit, content to view, and information to send and receive.
Data is transmitted without interference.
