Builders of the Next Net

this is the second post in a series to highlight the people and projects coming together at this year’s Contact Conference, Oct 20, 2011 in NYCOne of the big areas we’ll be highlighting at Contact is ‘next net’ technologies – hardware and software tools that bring people internet access and the ability to connect, communicate …

Review (Guest): Juggernaut — Why the System Crushes the Only People Who Can Save It

5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary, Compelling Piece of Outside-the-box Thinking and Analysis, February 17, 2011 By Robert Donovan “Author: Blueprint for Prosperity” (California) – See all my reviews Mister Morse has done an exemplary job here. First, Juggernaut is a well thought out, level-headed, and refreshingly non-partisan look at the evolution of western political-economic …

Plenty of Spectrum–Not Enough Integrity

There is plenty of radio spectrum laying fallow everywhere for many reasons.  One principal reason is regulatory capture by communications oligopolies/monopolies around the world (artificial scarcity), which leads to a lack of investment in alternative (competitive) infrastructure.  This implies there is also vendor capture. What has changed just over the past five years is the …

Liberation Technology Stakeholders…

Preliminary List of Stakeholders Appropedia Brave New Software Creative Commons Electronic Frontier Foundation Free Network Movement Free Software Foundation FreedomBox Future Forward Institute New America Foundation Open Source Ecology P2P Foundation Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium Tor Project Anonymnity Online Unhosted–Open Web Standard for Decentralizing World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Phi Beta Iota: We disagree on …