This commentary is part of Digital inclusion and data literacy , a special issue of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by Elinor Carmi and Simeon J. Yates. A particularly useful type of data literacy, instrumental for civic participation, for the ability to hold governments accountable, and to monitor policy implementation, as well as the
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This commentary is part of Digital inclusion and data literacy , a special issue of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by Elinor Carmi and Simeon J. Yates. Note from the author When I sat down to write the following commentary in February 2020 COVID-19 had not yet taken hold across UK, as it had done in China and other areas of East Asia. However
This op-ed explores the malleable nature of power and authority in internet and blockchain technologies.
Remembering Mustafa Akgül
Mustafa Akgül of Bilkent University passed away on 13 December 2017 after a long battle with cancer. Commonly regarded as the "father of the internet in Turkey," he was one of the most important figures in establishing the first internet connection in Turkey on 12 April 1993.
Cogent and Deutsche Telekom were peers... until the US network operator sued its German counterpart. The case serves to illustrate a broader issue in net policy.
Cloud services made in Europe after Snowden and Schrems
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Net neutrality, too controversial for Sofia
Leadership in the net neutrality file will not come from Europe... or will it?
Brazil-Portugal submarine cable no panacea
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How cloud providers are adopting privacy by design
Claus Schaale of Cisco Systems offers an insider's take on the adoption of privacy protecting measures in times of cloud computing and the so-called Internet of Things .
For less than a week now, German internet access providers have completed filing their requests for reservations of vectoring locations - in which they can offer vectoring enhanced internet access to customers. Vectoring technology allows to push broadband speed of old DSL subscriber lines to 100 Mbit/s by removing what the experts call 'crosstalk