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Don’t Be Fooled by Abstract Jargon: Internet Governance and ICT Policy

Tech Soup

Most civil society organizations (CSOs) and citizens don’t use high-level jargon such as Internet governance and ICT policy. International Economic and Policy Stakeholders Recognize the Internet’s Increasing Role. Net neutrality has been enshrined in law in the Netherlands and Chile. Not convinced yet?

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Preparing for the Next Disaster: The Future of #crisisdata

NTEN

We set up the home bases, provide mission-related information, and enjoy all the people who come in to play. But I wasn't prepared for the type of incoming information I saw in the weeks after January 12, 2010. . Multiple organizations and systems were having trouble coordinating and sharing information. Crisis data = people .

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Reflections on the Science Center World Congress

Museum 2.0

I heard from CEOs whose center is the only one in their entire country (Chile), educators who work with students who have never encountered a computer before entering the science center (South Africa), and web managers whose sites are locked behind federal government firewalls and draconian restrictions (Australia).

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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

Tech Soup

In India, 95 percent of obsolete electronics are recycled in the informal sector. Its well document practices of uncontrolled burning, and other informal recycling practices are a major source of groundwater pollution. Their system recovers around 75 percent of e-waste.

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Data Digest: Global Open Data Initiative, OpenData Latinoamérica, Big Data for Disaster Response

Tech Soup

Through identifying successes, it will provide a roadmap of policies and institutions that governments can use to create meaningful new open data initiatives. OpenData Latinoamérica: Driving the demand side of data and scraping towards transparency. Big Data Has Big Stage at Personal Democracy Forum.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

They wouldn't know she had stood with Gandhi in his resistance to the British, and supported his policy of nonviolent resistance to British colonialism. That has completely changed and Moroccan women are taking that information and doing massive street theater programs and education programs to take it out into communities.

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