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The blog of the Science, Technology and Public Policy program of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Editor
Zachary Tumin
Monthly Archives: January 2012
Saving the Internet: Let a Billion Servers Bloom
By Dave Winer With Twitter’s 140 character limit there’s little focus to the discussion so far about the new filtering Twitter just announced. I offer my comments to add some substance to the discussion. First, we don’t know very much about … Continue reading
Infrastructure First? Water Policy, Wealth, and Well-Being
By John Briscoe [1] In my reading of history, every country which has successfully lifted its people out of poverty has done so primarily by building its basic productive capacity. Central to this process has been giving priority to improving the … Continue reading
Better Data for a Better Internet
by John Palfrey and Jonathan Zittrain When people took to the streets across the U.K. last summer, the Prime Minister suggested restricting access to the Internet to limit protestors’ ability to organize. The resulting debate complemented speculation on the effects … Continue reading