News on Infrastructure & Standards

Open budgets

Want to open the budget now? Ask me how! Budget data literacy in Israel - a case study

Mary Loitsker, Public Knowledge Workshop
PUBLISHED ON: 27 May 2020

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

Digital inclusion

Apps, appointments, panic and people

Alice Mathers, Good Things Foundation
PUBLISHED ON: 27 May 2020

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

Internet access

Remembering Mustafa Akgül

PhD Melih Kırlıdoğ, North-West University
PUBLISHED ON: 18 Dec 2017

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.

Peering

Cogent v Deutsche Telekom: a classy conflict

Uta Meier-Hahn, Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG)
PUBLISHED ON: 17 Dec 2015

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.

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