Open Source

WikiLeaks 2.0: Al Jazeera and the Future of Investigative Journalism

  • By
  • Dan Meredith
  • Sascha Meinrath
January 25, 2011

Irrespective of your personal feelings about WikiLeaks, the model it pioneered has challenged traditional journalism models and serves as a harbinger of change for 2011. WikiLeaks-esque tools supporting a new generation of whistleblowers are facilitating fundamental changes in the relationships among sources and journalists. These tools can disseminate exceedingly large amounts of information within remarkably short time frames and challenge journalists, who necessarily must utilize new technologies to vet, manage, source, and expose the needles in the haystack.

Wiki Rehab

  • By
  • Evgeny Morozov,
  • New America Foundation
January 7, 2011 |

American diplomacy seems to have survived Wikileaks's "attack on the international community," as Hillary Clinton so dramatically characterized it, unscathed. Save for a few diplomatic reshuffles, Foggy Bottom doesn't seem to be deeply affected by what happened. Certainly, the U.S. government at large has not been paralyzed by the leaks—contrary to what Julian Assange had envisioned in one of his cryptic-cum-visionary essays, penned in 2006.

Measurement Lab Releases Japanese and Chinese Language Versions for Overseas Users

October 25, 2010

For Immediate Release
October 25, 2010

Washington, D.C. -- Today, New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative launched Japanese and Chinese language versions of Measurement Lab (M-Lab) website to encourage Internet users based in both countries to test the speed and other performance measures of their broadband connections.

"T-Mobile G2 with Google" Phone Contains Unexpected ‘Feature’ to Overwrite Users' Software

  • By
  • Dan Meredith
  • Sascha Meinrath
  • Josh King
  • James Losey
October 5, 2010

Chip on Phone Overwrites User-Preferred Software -- Re-installs Original Firmware.

[October 13, 2010 UPDATE: OTI has released this follow-up analysis concerning the policy implications of mobile device lock down.]

Yesterday, some T-Mobile stores began selling its newest mobile device, the G2, an Android-based smart phone originally slated for an October 6 release while AT&T is slated to release it later in the year.

Open Education in Higher Ed: Textbooks, OpenCourseWare, and the “S” Word

September 2, 2010
Photo Credit: Screenshot of Flat World Knowledge website

This is a guest post from Timothy Vollmer, an Open Policy Fellow for Creative Commons.

Inside the beltway, there’s been increasing interest from policymakers in exploring the benefits of publicly funded Open Educational Resources (OER). OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or re-purposing by others. Initiatives supportive of open education have been discussed in various places within the federal government: the U.S. Department of Education’s Race to the Top Fund, National Education Technology Plan, Proposed Grant Priorities, National Learning Registry, the FCC’s National Broadband Plan, and in proposed federal legislation.

NAF @ SXSW

August 23, 2010
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The string of acronyms in the headline translates to “vote for New America’s panels for this year’s 2011 SXSW Interactive Conference.”

NAF @ SXSW

  • By
  • Kristine Gloria
August 23, 2010
Photo Credit: Screenshot of SXSW panelpicker website

The string of acronyms in the headline translates to “vote for New America’s panels for this year’s 2011 SXSW Interactive Conference, which will be held March 11-20."

The Open Technology Initiative and the Media Policy Initiative of New America have pulled together five stellar panels that cover a range of topics. From Open Government to Measurement Lab, we’re excited to bring these discussions to one of the largest Interactive conferences in the nation.

Robots and Magicians: Yahoo! Pipes

August 5, 2010
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In one of Carl Sagan's writings he mentions that in the 1800's the average reader could read every book in something like 60 years.  At the time of the writing, he said it would take the average reader something like 1,000 years to do it.

Comments on Mobile Broadband Measurement

  • and Dr. Andrew Afflerbach and Shivani Gandhi from Columbia Telecommunications Corporation
July 8, 2010

The Benton Foundation, Columbia Telecommunications Corporation, Consumers Union, Native Public Media, and New America Foundation respectfully submit comments in response to the Commission’s Public Notice seeking comment on the measurement of mobile broadband network performance.

Open Data: Philanthropy’s Future Fuel For Change

Monday, May 10, 2010 - 12:30pm

Have you used your cell phone to check when the next bus is coming? Searched for info on pending legislation? Looked to see where you can recycle old house paint? If you have, chances are that the answers you found were powered by open data from your city, state, or the federal government.

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