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Social Media and CrisisCamp Disaster Response: Humane Communications Over Human Networks

[Source: Jonah Bossewitch; January 16, 2010]Update: This discussion has now been transformed into an actual project proposal at the Crisis Commons wiki – the Haitian Video Postcard Exchange Project.

Social Media, Health Care and Strategic Learning for 2010

[Source: Pew Internet and American Life Project, by Susannah Fox; January 6, 2010]

Rural Broadband: The Cost of Exclusion

The Center for Rural Strategies contributed the following remarks to a recent public hearing on Digital Inclusion by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The event was part of a series ...

Capturing Controversy: A Look at Activist Filmmaking

[Source: The Independent, by Jericho Parms; October 1, 2009]Two veterans of the field reveal the true nature of activism in film.

For Myth-Busting, Indians Take to the Web

A Montana tribe is using online videos to explain reservation life and counter old misconceptions about federal money, law enforcement, and sovereignty.

In Rural Africa, A Fertile Market for Mobile Phones

Laban Rutagumirwa charges his mobile phone with a car battery because his dirt-floor home deep in the remote, banana-covered hills of western Uganda does not have electricity.[Source: The New York ...

Dialing for Answers Where Web Can’t Reach

This story in The New York Times features an initiative by Jon Gosier, the guest speaker from GFEM's delegation dinner at the 2009 South by Southwest Interactive Festival. [Source: The New ...

Time for Higher Education To Step Up on National Broadband Strategy

Given the historic opportunity, it is high time for higher education to become actively and constructively engaged in the national broadband policy making effort. [Source: Bytes from Lev blog, by ...

Filmmakers Focus Their Lens on Social Entrepreneurs

[Source: VOANews.com, by Sheri Quinn; July 15, 2009]