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Better Internet service for Indigenous communities? Right. Then what?
In rural, remote and northern communities across Canada, First Nations technicians are taking on Internet connectivity challenges themselves. Then what?
Data stored by governments? No, thanks
What is the point of replacing Facebook and Google with the same things, just with another “owner”?
Facebook and Google supporting Wikipedia. How NOT cool is that?
For-profit corporations funding the only source of information for millions of people that they still don’t control? What could possibly go wrong?
Guess who may be testing new payment systems in India
Two months ago I signalled that little or no regulation may leave a powerful company free to not only lock up emerging markets in Asia, but also to control, in the same areas, new payment systems or distribution of information over mobile phones. That was two months ago.
China, Russia and California confirm urgent, worldwide need for Personal Clouds
“Data used to be much simpler”. Too simple, probably. Starting this year, we have one more reason to deploy personal clouds as soon as possible: peak data governance.
Teens have abandoned Facebook and it's bad
Don’t worry, I am not out of my mind. I still say we should all leave Facebook now. I still promote a way to do it that is jus a tiny bit more realistic and feasible in the short term than almost everything I’ve seen around so far. Still, the reasons and the way teens are abandoning Facebook are bad. Or, as a minimum, misreported.