By Daksha Cordova “People-Centered Internet (PCI) has been a strong supporter of Project Coqui for over one-year. My background is intelligence innovation, a team sport where we outbox and outfox adversaries. PCI complements my strengths by ringing sensitivity and subject matter expertise to global issues. I am so grateful for their involvement, they inspire me Read More
Monthly Archives: January 2019
IEEE Internet Initiative Wraps Up Five-year Effort
New Connectivity Coalition and others will continue to work toward Internet inclusion By Deepak Maheneshwari PCI was a very active player in 3i – the IEEE Internet Initiative and we played a pivotal role in transitioning the Working Groups formed during our 3i Internet Inclusion Advancing Solutions bi-yearly series of meetings held from 2016 – Read More
Investing in Indigenous Connectivity Is an Investment in Our Future Online
By Mark Buell To truly close the digital divide, we need to aim for infrastructure solutions to make sure rural and remote Indigenous communities can keep up to a rapidly changing world of communications technology and products requiring speeds 100 to 1,000 times faster than what our best-connected regions already get. The ICS report features Read More
Native Americans on Tribal Land Are ‘The Least Connected’ to High-Speed Internet
By Hansi Lo Wang “Until we can ensure that deployment by providers includes fiber access on tribal reservations, this title will always ring true. Short of Elon Musk’s Low Earth Orbit Satellite solution, or Google’s ProjectLOON, fiber access on tribal land at $1/Mb per month is the real catalyst to get all of the tribes Read More
Four Internets Require Geopolitical Balancing Act
By Wendy Hall, DBE, FRS, FREng, Regius Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK, Executive Director of the Web Science Institute at Southampton. According to Wendy Hall, viewed through a geopolitical lens, the monolithic, unchanging Internet dissolves into at least four – different models are currently emerging from Beijing, Brussels, Washington and Read More
Responsible Digital Inclusion – How Can We Be Safe and Welcoming to All?
On December 10th, Constellation Research and the People Centered Internet (PCI) brought over 200 people together in San Jose California to talk about a People Centered Digital Future. On the panel on Digital Inclusion, PCI co-founder, Mei Lin opened by inviting everyone into her kitchen, for if we are to be inclusive, conversations like these Read More
DisrupTV Interview Mei Lin Fung about the #OurDigitalFuture Event
DisrupTV Episode 131, Featuring Mei Lin Fung DisrupTV hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar interview Mei Lin Fung, Co-Founder of the People-Centered Internet, about the #OurDigitalFuture event. ________________________ If you liked this article, you can follow us on Twitter and Facebook for more updates.