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Commotion Wireless

Commotion is an open source “device-as-infrastructure” communication platform integrating users’ existing cell phones, Wi-Fi enabled computers, and other wireless-capable personal devices to create metro-scale peer-to-peer (mesh) communications networks.
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From the Digital Divide to Digital Excellence

A number of cities and community and municipal wireless networks around the world have developed innovative approaches in pursuit of providing universal access to citizens.
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Measurement Lab (M-Lab)

Measurement Lab (M-Lab) is an open, distributed server platform for researchers to deploy Internet measurement tools. The goal of M-Lab is to advance network research and empower the public with useful information about their broadband connections.
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Full Spectrum Community Media

This paper offers a policy framework that responds to the situation the Alliance for Community Media finds itself thrust into and recommends actions to secure the future of community media.
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A Review of The International Telecommunications Landscape

This review provides information for the public, researchers and policymakers reference on various countries' telecommunications markets and policies.

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Articles and Op-Eds

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Lucas Graves
December 08 | Slate
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James Losey
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Latest Blog Posts

Joshua Breitbart
Friday, January 20, 2012
A compelling picture is definitely worth the proverbial thousand words for explaining new kinds of wireless networks – especially when that picture appears alongside comprehensible technical information. And yet our choices about visual and written language say a lot about just who we expect to...
James Losey
Thursday, December 22, 2011
If there had been any doubt before, events over the past year have underscored just how important the Internet has become for activists fighting for human rights and democracy around the world. However, 2011 also highlighted how censorship, surveillance, and the shutdown of Internet and wireless...
Joshua Breitbart
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Using just a few wireless routers and open source software, the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition is demonstrating how community organizations can use wireless networks to strengthen neighborhoods.
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The Open Technology Initiative formulates policy and regulatory reforms to support open architectures and open source innovations and facilitates the development and implementation of open technologies and communications networks. OTI promotes affordable, universal, and ubiquitous communications networks through partnerships with communities, researchers, industry, and public interest groups and is committed to maximizing the potentials of innovative open technologies by studying their social and economic impacts – particularly for poor, rural, and other underserved constituencies. OTI provides in-depth, objective research, analysis, and findings for policy decision-makers and the general public. More Info



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Measurement Lab (M-Lab) is an open platform for researchers to deploy Internet measurement tools. By enhancing Internet transparency, we aim to help sustain a healthy, innovative Internet.

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