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SUMMARY:Where\, What\, and Who is Digital Public Infrastructure? | Stanford PACS
DESCRIPTION:Imagine living in a society in which most of the land and buildings available for meeting and working were owned by a few for-profit corporations. Churches\, governments\, groups of friends\, schools\, nonprofits\, and grassroots social movements would each have to reserve space on — or have a key to — a privately-owned facility\, often on a large corporate campus\, in order to meet and work together. It would be a society with no domed capitol buildings\, city halls\, temples\, open campuses\, public parks\, community centers\, or nonprofit spaces. \nFortunately\, this is not the society we live in\, but it does describe the online spaces where our digital information is stored and where much of contemporary life – including civil society action – now takes place. This scenario is inherently threatening to democracies\, in which free expression and public participation presuppose people have both the ability and space to assemble outside of corporate or government monitoring. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/where-what-and-who-is-digital-public-infrastructure-stanford-pacs/
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SUMMARY:Where\, What\, and Who is Digital Public Infrastructure? | Stanford PACS
DESCRIPTION:Imagine living in a society in which most of the land and buildings available for meeting and working were owned by a few for-profit corporations. Churches\, governments\, groups of friends\, schools\, nonprofits\, and grassroots social movements would each have to reserve space on — or have a key to — a privately-owned facility\, often on a large corporate campus\, in order to meet and work together. It would be a society with no domed capitol buildings\, city halls\, temples\, open campuses\, public parks\, community centers\, or nonprofit spaces. \nFortunately\, this is not the society we live in\, but it does describe the online spaces where our digital information is stored and where much of contemporary life – including civil society action – now takes place. This scenario is inherently threatening to democracies\, in which free expression and public participation presuppose people have both the ability and space to assemble outside of corporate or government monitoring. \nPlease join us in Reclaiming Digital Infrastructure for the Public Interest. This is a 3-part series to build awareness\, intention\, and engagement in an ecosystem of ideas and practices that could bring into being digital infrastructure that aligns with community aspirations\, protects personal and group safety\, and prioritizes people\, communities\, and a public good. \nLaura DeNardis will join in conversation with Beatrice Martini for the third session. They will consider the internet as an “on/off” switch and how the digitization of physical systems and places influences our most fundamental rights. They will be joined by experts building physical/digital alternatives. This session will include breakouts to give participants time to discuss potential paths forward. \nSpeakers: \n\nLydia X. Z. Brown\, Policy Counsel\, Privacy and Data Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology\nGreta Bynum\, Co-Director\, Community Tech NY and The New School’s Digital Equity Lab\nRachel Coldicutt\, Technology Strategist and Director of Research Consultancy\, Careful Industries\nLaura DeNardis\, Professor and Interim Dean of the School of Communication\, American University\nJimmy Garcia-Meza\, Co-Founder and CEO\, Cloudplugs\nBeatrice Martini\, Practitioner Fellow\, Digital Civil Society Lab; Education Coordinator\, AccessNow Digital Security Helpline\nMarleen Stikker\, Founder\, Waag\nSander van der Waal\, Project and Concept Developer\, Waag
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/where-what-and-who-is-digital-public-infrastructure-stanford-pacs-2/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:When good is the enemy of great: Rural broadband in a time of COVID | PCMLP Global Media Policy Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:With the global onset of COVID-19\, broadband access has never been more vital to our economies\, democracies\, and social well-being. The pandemic\, however\, painfully demonstrated the extent to which people in the United States are un- and under-connected. At least 42 million Americans lack access to broadband because of infrastructure availability\, while upwards of 162 million lack access to the Internet at broadband speeds. Tens of millions lack access to broadband because of cost and affordability. This presentation will focus on the rural-urban digital divide in the United States\, pointing out its endemic features\, and identifying areas of policy failure. Indeed\, the failure to correct the rural-urban digital divide\, particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic\, is not one of technology\, but rather of markets\, politics and policy. In short\, the political economy of broadband stands in the way of universal connectivity. I argue that rural broadband policy is defined by the “politics of good enough” and that this politics serves the interests of major telecommunications providers. To contrast these critiques\, the presentation will also highlight community models of broadband deployment\, ranging from municipal broadband to co-operative systems\, which will exemplify how communities are connecting themselves in the wake of market failure. The presentation concludes with a prescriptive set of requirements and responsibilities for what will hopefully be a new administration. \n**Note that this webinar will be recorded.** \nSpeaker Bio: Christopher Ali is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. His current research focuses on the rural-urban digital divide\, telecommunications and broadband policy\, and broadband access during COVID-19. He is the author of the forthcoming book Farm Fresh Broadband: The Future of Rural Connectivity (MIT Press\, 2021) and multiple high-ranking journal articles and book chapters. His work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Hill\, Columbia Journalism Review\, and The Conversation. He is also the author of Media Localism: The Policies of Place (University of Illinois Press\, 2017)\, and is currently a Faculty Fellow with the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society and a Knight News Innovation Fellow with the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. Previously he has held fellowships with the World Economic Forum\, the Center for Advanced Study in Global Communications at the University of Pennsylvania\, and Fribourg University in Switzerland.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/when-good-is-the-enemy-of-great-rural-broadband-in-a-time-of-covid-pcmlp-global-media-policy-seminar-series/
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