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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.
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Zachary Tumin
Category Archives: Telcomm
Africa’s New Science and Innovation Agenda
by Calestous Juma I am on my way back from the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Cape Town, South Africa. This was a remarkable meeting with an overwhelming intellectual energy. The event was unique in many respects. But … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Agriculture, Biotechnology, Development, Emerging Tech, Engineering, Health, Innovation, Manufacturing, Telcomm
Tagged africa, Agriculture, Biotechnology, infrastructure, Technology, wef; grow africa; akinola; financial times; innovation; carlsson; gatete; van houten; lanre; ericsson; ibm; samsung; mobile; fibre; rwanda; south africa; nobel;
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Sandy Turned off the Lights, the Phones, and the Heat
A cyber attack could make it all happen again. by Joel Brenner Verizon’s chief technology officer surveyed a flooded major switching facility in lower Manhattan and put it bluntly: “There is nothing working here. Quite frankly, this is wider than … Continue reading
Killing Program Access and Broadband Competition
by Susan Crawford Another Friday filing by the FCC: 146 pages on program access. It’s a classic on-the-one-hand-on-the-other item. This time around it’s even worse for the public, because the underlying competitive reality of the wires that run to American … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Telcomm
Tagged cable, comcast, directv, dish, fcc, time warner, verizon
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A U.N. Takeover of the Internet: Existential Threat or Tempest in a Teapot?
Experts disagree whether an upcoming meeting of the International Telecommunications Union in Dubai will determine the future of global Internet governance. By Jonah Force Hill On Thursday, May 31, 2012, in the Rayburn Office Building of the House of Representatives, … Continue reading
The Cloud: Private as Curbside Garbage?
by Vivek Mohan It is no surprise to those following consumer or enterprise computing that we are moving inexorably towards the cloud. The availability of increased – and of increasingly mobile – connectivity to the Internet has allowed for the … Continue reading
China, Fiber, Fracas
by Susan Crawford Via Dave Burstein comes the news that China is adding 2-3 million people to online connections a month. I’ve heard elsewhere that China plans to have 300 million of its citizens connected to fiber (FTTH, or fiber … Continue reading
Posted in Governance, Internet, Telcomm
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Internet Governance: Threats and Opportunities
By Susan Crawford In June of 2011, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Hamadoun Touré, Secretary General of the International Telecommunications Union. According to a transcript of the first minutes of the meeting subsequently published by the Russian government, … Continue reading
Posted in Governance, Internet, Telcomm
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