Open Technology Initiative

Revitalizing the Public Airwaves

OTI — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:53:00 -0500

While many policy analysts have focused on the fate of the 700 MHz auctions, the digital TV transition, and the promise of white space devices, a more vast and underutilized resource has gone largely unnoticed: government spectrum. The best available data suggests that the majority of federal spectrum capacity is left unused. Strategic reuse of this spectrum could help obviate the need for significant additional reallocation while enabling a wide range of creative new uses and social benefits.

New Media, Technology and Internet Use in Indian Country

OTI — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:23:00 -0500

As digital communications and the Internet become increasingly pervasive, Native Americans continue to lack access to this digital revolution. Native Americans are among the last citizens to gain access to the Internet, with access to broadband often unavailable or overly expensive in Native communities. Beyond that challenge, there is a fundamental lack of qualitative or quantitative empirical research on Native American Internet use, adoption, and access, stifling the Native voice in broadband and media policy.

New Media, Technology & Internet Use in Indian Country

Kirsten Gilbert — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:00:00 -0500

A New America Event
11/19/2009 - 9:00am

On November 19, 2009, Native Public Media and the New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative will release New Media, Technology and Internet Use in Indian Country: Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses, one of the most extensive studies of on the ground technology use, access, and adoption in Native American lands. Demonstrating the great need to include Native Americans in the discourse around the National Broadband Plan, the report combines both a survey of Native American technology

Comments of the New America Foundation - NBP Public Notice #13

OTI — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:45:00 -0500

New America Foundation Announces Its First Knight Media Policy Fellow

adminn — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:05:00 -0500

The New America Foundation today announced that Tom Glaisyer will be its first Knight Media Policy Fellow, focusing on national media policy changes and related developments under a new grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

The Hidden Harms of Application Bias

OTI — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:07:00 -0500

Application bias, the practice by network operators of placing applications into tiers of low and high priority and enforcing this prioritization through mechanisms in the middle of the network, poses hidden harms for the Internet that substantially outweigh its uncertain benefits. Application bias degrades low priority applications, decreases overall network performance, and locks the Internet into typical usage patterns of 2009, frustrating both consumer choice and Internet innovation. At the same time, the biggest hurdle to offering more powerful services on the Internet is not conge

Consumer Groups Seek Clarity from FCC on Open Internet Rulemaking

OTI — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:25:00 -0500

Chairman Julius Genachowski
Federal Communications Commission
445 Twelfth Street, SW
Washington, DC 20554

November 9, 2009

Dear Chairman Genachowski,

DC Public Interest Community Urges FCC to Not Allow Selectable Output Control Restrictions

Erin Drankoski — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:05:00 -0500