By Janet Chapman, Campaigns Manager Tanzania Development Trust, Founder Crowd2Map At twelve years of age, Rhobi Samwelly almost bled to death after being subjected to FGM against her will. Since then she has dedicated her life to helping save girls from a similar fate. Typically during the “cutting season” girls receive a phone call in the Read More
Author Archives: PCI Editor
People-Centered Technology in the Heartland
Report from Tennessee By Marci Harris Over the past six months, as one of many in the rapidly expanding PCI network, I have been impressed with the breadth of its reach and the sense of shared purpose for leveraging technology for the benefit of all – and that this interest is not limited to the Read More
Celebrating Steven Huter: Winner of the Jon Postel Service Award
This award is given not just for prowess, but for selflessness, for putting others above yourself. A rich heritage in the pioneering of the Internet in an age of continuing development means that awards like the ‘Jon Postel Service Award’, are as highly regarded an accolade as ever. Steve Huter is a member of People-Centered Internet Read More
The Search for Positive Outcomes
By Vint Cerf Anyone not living under a rock for the past decade will be well aware that the Internet, the WWW, and endless apps on smart phones have become risky places. There is digital danger, but amid the strident headlines and warnings, there is a great deal of beneficial activity in these environments. It Read More
IEEE Global Internet Policy Monitor: 11 July 2018
Valuable coverage of significant current policy activities happening around the world in the sphere of Internet technology is provided courtesy of IEEE. 11 July 2018 summary – IEEE Global Internet Policy Monitor – is available here. Read more summaries here. ________________________ If you liked this article, you can follow us on Twitter and Facebook for Read More
Puerto Rico Delegation Visit to Singapore
By Mei Lin Fung Following our work thinking about Digital Puerto Rico, People-Centered Internet’s RAND Corporation project team leader Marci Harris and team members Linton Wells and Mei Lin Fung accompanied a delegation from Puerto Rico. This visit to Singapore had already been in planning before the devastation wrecked by Hurricanes Irma and Maria, and was set Read More
Update on the Efforts of the Humanized Internet
By Monique Morrow The Humanized Internet is a Swiss-based non-profit organization with a core focus on ‘identity sets’ as it pertains to each of us as individuals, and also to those who are lacking from access and could benefit. Technology is at its best when it allows individuals to take control of their own destinies Read More
Update on the 100 Million Healthier Lives Initiative
As a true positive #ChangeAgent, Dr. Somova Stout embodies all that the People-Centered Internet strives for as a coalition. Whereas most doctors treat one patient at a time, she has a far more ambitious aim, and that is to heal millions of people before they get even set a foot in the surgery, according to Read More
IEEE Global Internet Policy Monitor: 27 June 2018
Valuable coverage of significant current policy activities happening around the world in the sphere of Internet technology is provided courtesy of IEEE. 27 June 2018 summary – IEEE Global Internet Policy Monitor – is available here. Read more summaries here. ________________________ If you liked this article, you can follow us on Twitter and Facebook for Read More
IEEE Global Internet Policy Monitor: 20 June 2018
Valuable coverage of significant current policy activities happening around the world in the sphere of Internet technology is provided courtesy of the world’s largest technical professional organisation for the advancement of technology, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). 20 June 2018 summary – IEEE Global Internet Policy Monitor – is available here. Read Read More