Gordon Cook: The Future of the Internet
15 Slides with Words in Notes Format As presented 27 June 2011 See Also:
Network Learning to Team/Autonomous Learning
Harold Jarche » Network Learning: Working Smarter At its core, network learning is a way to deal with an ever-increasing amount of digital information. It requires an open attitude toward learning and finding new things. Each worker needs to develop individualized processes of filing, classifying and annotating information for later retrieval. Source: www.jarche.com Network Learning: …
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UN Declares Internet Access a Human Right…
The U.N. Declares Internet Access a Human Right By Adam Clark Estes 11:29 AM ET The United Nations counts internet access as a basic human right in a report that bears implications both to on-going events in the Arab Spring and to the Obama administration’s war on whistleblowers. Acting as special rapporteur, a human rights …
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Next Net, Transitional Net, Autonomous Net
Transitional Internet by jonl on April 13, 2011 I continue to be focused on the future of the Internet and aware of divergent paths. In the later 2000s, following a period of digital and media convergence and given broad adoption of evolving high speed (broadband) network connectivity, the Internet has become an environment for mixed …
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Reference: Internet Censorship Circumvention
Global Voices Blog Critique from Jacob Appelbaum: My motivation for writing this response is to inform readers of the serious concerns that many people, myself included, have about the recent Freedom House report. I am always pleased to see more analysis of censorship circumvention and Internet security tools, but I have concerns about this report’s …
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Reference: Internet Freedom–and Control
Freedom on the Net: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media Freedom House 30 March 2009 As internet and mobile phone use explodes worldwide, governments are adopting new and multiple means for controlling these technologies that go far beyond technical filtering. Freedom on the Net provides a comprehensive look at these emerging tactics, raising …
Internet’s Unholy Marriage to Capitalism
More blog posts from Robert McChesney John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney The United States and the world are now a good two decades into the Internet revolution, or what was once called the information age. The past generation has seen a blizzard of mind-boggling developments in communication, ranging from the World Wide Web …
