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Old analogue TV frequencies should turned into free ‘super WiFi’, scientists say

Old television frequencies are sold off by governments due to the change over from analogue to digital broadcasting, often to whoever is prepared to pay the most for them. They should instead be used to create a new range of free Wi-Fi, say scientists from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany. Transmitting WiFi over old TV frequencies would cover a far wider area than traditional WiFi because they use much lower frequencies. Current WiFi is transmitted over local area networks (WLAN) at about 2GHz and therefore has a limited range. Read full article.

2015/01/092015/01/10

Mongoose: What Really Happened? Shit Hot Site

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What Really Happened?

Because World War Three Is a Really Bad Idea!

Git some.

2015/01/082015/01/08

Richard Winger: US Electoral Reform Update

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To help future “other” presidential candidates, we need a change in the rules for the Commission on Presidential Debates; we need to eliminate the electoral college; we need ballot access reform in many states; we need to advance ranked-choice voting. There are areas of activism proceeding right now in all those areas:

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2014/12/10

Stephen E. Arnold: Cisco, OpenSOC and Big Data

Access, Architecture, Data

Cisco Relies on OpenSOC through GitHub When it Comes to Big Data

The article on Enterprise Networking Planet titled Cisco Goes Open-Source for Big Data Analytics discusses the change for Cisco with some high-ups in the company. Annie Ballew, Solutions Architect in the Cisco Security Business Group, mentions that OpenSOC is not actually a Security Information and Event Management system but rather should be considered “big data technology for security analytics.” OpenSOC is freely available through Github. The article states, Read More

2014/12/032014/12/03

Dev Balkind: Nathan Schneider on Owning

Access, Crowd-Sourcing, Culture, Economics/True Cost

Nathan Schneider is one of the best chroniclers of the emergence of the new solutions. This piece places places a lot of innovations into context, connecting various movements and ideologies together to give the reader a picture of what's next.

Owning is the New Sharing

Nathan Schneider

“We’re moving into a new economic age,” says Marjorie Kelly, who spent two decades at the helm of Business Ethics magazine and now advises social entrepreneurs. “It needs to be sustainable. It needs to be inclusive. And the foundation of what defines an economic age is its form of ownership.” … There are many ways to own. Simply giving up on ownership, however, will mean that those who actually do own the tools that we rely on to share will control them. People who want an economy of genuine sharing are coming to recognize that they must embrace ownership — and, as they do, they're changing what owning means altogether.

2014/12/022014/12/02

Dev Balkind: Greg Bloom on Community Data Commons

Access, Data

Towards a Community Data Commons

Greg Bloom

This all points to a question that the civic technology movement must consider: whose responsibility is it to produce and share knowledge about a community?

2014/12/02

Mark Dixon: In Mexico, open government includes social justice, press freedom, and innovation

Access, IO Impotency

In Mexico, open government includes social justice, press freedom, and innovation

The Presidency of Mexico's national digital strategy coordinator, Alejandra Lagunes, speaks with Alex Howard about the country's plan for open government and digital innovation.

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Michel Bauwens: Analog TV Frequencies = Free Super-WiFi