by Mitchell Shapiro | Feb 10, 2015 | Blog
As someone who believes the Euro, as structured and managed today, is a deeply flawed system that has pushed Greece (and other nations) into a deep and prolonged depression, I was excited about Syriza’s recent victory and hopeful that the new Greek government could...
by William Dutton | Feb 9, 2015 | Blog
Tomorrow, 10 February, is Safer Internet Day. It might not appear to be a critical issue, but actually, one of the key initiatives over the coming years will inevitably focus on better addressing learning and education about how to use the Internet and related...
by William Dutton | Feb 5, 2015 | Blog
Re-inventing Journalism by Avshalom Ginosar “Re-inventing Journalism” – this was the title of an international academic conference that took place in Winterthur, Switzerland (15 minutes from Zurich by train), on February 5th-6th. More than an hundred...
by Mitchell Shapiro | Feb 5, 2015 | Blog
In a blog entry here yesterday I described FCC Chairman Wheeler’s Title II proposal as “replanting the roots” of communication policy in the digital age. Shortly after I posted it, the Commission released a four-page summary of the proposed “New Rules for Protecting...
by Mitchell Shapiro | Feb 4, 2015 | Blog
[Update: shortly after this was written, the FCC released details about Chairman Wheeler’s “Protecting the Open Internet” proposal, which will be discussed here in later posts] With the FCC expected to classify broadband access as a Title II common...
by William Dutton | Jan 24, 2015 | Blog
We had a brief interview with Professor Charles Steinfield before a seminar he presented on the role of information and communication technologies for development, focusing on their role in the agricultural context. Distilling key lessons learned from his field...
