The Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust

Kevin Werbach

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• How the blockchain--a system built on foundations of mutual mistrust--can become trustworthy The blockchain entered the world on January 3, 2009, intr... Lees meer

Privacy on the Ground

Kenneth A Bamberger, Deirdre K Mulligan

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• An examination of corporate privacy management in the United States, Germany, Spain, France, and the United Kingdom, identifying international best pr... Lees meer

Declaring Independence in Cyberspace

Milton L Mueller

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• How and why the US government gave up its control of ICANN, the global coordinator of internet names, numbers, and protocols--and what the geopolitica... Lees meer

Seeing Human Rights

Sandra Ristovska

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• As video becomes an important tool to expose injustice, an examination of how human rights organizations are seeking to professionalize video activism... Lees meer

Digital Lifeline?

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• Interdisciplinary perspectives on the role of new information technologies, including mobile phones, wireless networks, and biometric identification, ... Lees meer

Farm Fresh Broadband

Christopher Ali

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• An analysis of the failure of U.S. broadband policy to solve the rural-urban digital divide, with a proposal for a new national rural broadband plan. ... Lees meer

Designing an Internet

David D Clark

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• Why the Internet was designed to be the way it is, and how it could be different, now and in the future. How do you design an internet? The architectu... Lees meer

Resistance to the Current

Johan Soderberg, Maxigas

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• How hacking cultures drive contemporary capitalism and the future of innovation. In Resistance to the Current , Johan Söderberg and Maxigas examine fo... Lees meer

Zoning China

Luzhou Li

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• An examination of "cultural zoning" in China considers why government regulation of online video is so much more lenient than regulation of broadcast ... Lees meer

The Character of Consent

Meg Leta Jones

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• The rich, untold origin story of the ubiquitous web cookie--what's wrong with it, why it's being retired, and how we can do better. Consent pop-ups co... Lees meer

The Power of Partnership in Open Government

Suzanne J Piotrowski, Daniel Berliner, Alex Ingrams

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• What the Open Government Partnership tells us about how international initiatives can and do shape domestic public sector reform. At the 2011 meeting ... Lees meer

How Not to Network a Nation

Benjamin Peters

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• How, despite thirty years of effort, Soviet attempts to build a national computer network were undone by socialists who seemed to behave like capitali... Lees meer

Reluctant Power

Rita Zajacz

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• How early twentieth-century American policymakers sought to gain control over radiotelegraphy networks in an effort to advance the global position of ... Lees meer

Science Competes

Barry Bozeman

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• When science competes with myriad influences in public policymaking, how can we ensure that it does so effectively? Policymakers, like most people tod... Lees meer

Virtual Economies

VILI Lehdonvirta, Edward Castronova

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• How the basic concepts of economics--including markets, institutions, and money--can be used to create and analyze economies based on virtual goods. I... Lees meer

Universal Access and Its Asymmetries

Harmeet Sawhney, Hamid R Ekbia

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• A framework for understanding the totality of costs and benefits of universal access that will foster honest appraisal and guide the development of go... Lees meer

The Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust

Kevin Werbach

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• How the blockchain--a system built on foundations of mutual mistrust--can become trustworthy. The blockchain entered the world on January 3, 2009, int... Lees meer

Decoding the Social World

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon

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• How data science and the analysis of networks help us solve the puzzle of unintended consequences. Social life is full of paradoxes. Our intentional a... Lees meer

Design Justice

Sasha Costanza-Chock

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• An exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequality, and advance collective liberation and ecologic... Lees meer

Fake News

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• New perspectives on the misinformation ecosystem that is the production and circulation of fake news. What is fake news? Is it an item on Breitbart, a... Lees meer

Cyberinsurance Policy

Josephine Wolff

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• Why cyberinsurance has not improved cybersecurity and what governments can do to make it a more effective tool for cyber risk management. As cybersecu... Lees meer

The Paradoxes of Network Neutralities

Russell A Newman

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• An argument that the movement for network neutrality was of a piece with its neoliberal environment, solidifying the continued existence of a commerci... Lees meer

International Relations in the Cyber Age

Nazli Choucri, David D Clark

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• A foundational analysis of the co-evolution of the internet and international relations, examining resultant challenges for individuals, organizations... Lees meer

Big Data Is Not a Monolith

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• Perspectives on the varied challenges posed by big data for health, science, law, commerce, and politics. Big data is ubiquitous but heterogeneous. Bi... Lees meer