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Report | Learning and working in the digital age: Advancing opportunities and identifying the risks (Brookings)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Tue, 05/17/2022 - 11:45Podcast | Can policymakers level the playing field in the computer sciences? (Brookings)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Mon, 05/16/2022 - 12:32Delivering to deserts: New data reveals the geography of digital access to food in the US
Digital food access could be a game-changer for people who struggle with brick-and-mortar food access barriers, including those living in disinvested areas historically defined as “food deserts” and individuals facing mobility challenges or time constraints.
Battle lines for the future of the internet
When the late Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow penned his “Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace” in 1996, proclaiming “our virtual selves immune to your sovereignty,” he railed against “the great invertebrate in the White House” and the “Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel.” So what would Barlow have thought when, on April 28, 2022, 60 governments, mostly from the industrial world, met (in person or in their virtual selves) at the White House to sign a “ Declaration on the Future of the Internet,” initiated by the United States along with Au