Gordon Cook: Policy Paper on Connectivity

Policy Paper on Connectivity 1. Executive Summary 2. Introduction 3 Technical Background 3.1 Peering and Transit – How thousands of Networks become the Global Internet 4. Special Issues in Connectivity 4.1 Access for Scientists 4.2 Access for Rural Areas 4.3 Access for Citizens via a Civil Society Stakeholder Body 5.The Ecuadorian Political, Economic, and Infrastructural …

Category: Open Source Everything

Category:Open Source Everything Below are the nine sub-categories for Open Source Everything as documented in a preliminary manner at the P2P Foundation wiki. Open Data Open Governance Open Health Open Infrastructures Open Intelligence Open Manufacturing Open Provisioning Open Software Open Space Below the fold: 60+ opens as distributed across above sub-categories.

Berto Jongman: New Movement “Reset the Net” Fights NSA’s Mass Surveillance — Google and Twitter NOT Joining the Movement

New Movement Aims to ‘Reset the Net’ Against Mass Surveillance By Kim Zetter WIRED 05.06.14 A coalition of nearly two-dozen tech companies and civil liberties groups is launching a new fight against mass internet surveillance, hoping to battle the NSA in much the same way online campaigners pushed back on bad piracy legislation in 2012. The …

Review (Guest): The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man

Luke Harding Ed Snowden and the American tribal fear meme, February 19, 2014 By  Herbert L Calhoun “paulocal”   This is a story about what one American saw atop the tip of an iceberg called the “American national security state.” In the end, Ed Snowden, a 29-year old, $200,00/year High School dropout turned Computer Systems …