I wrote a piece for Quartz Ideas on irony and tragedy of Hillary Clinton, architect of the internet freedom agenda, and the prospects of a “splinternet”: The open internet, she suggested, could help open up closed societies and support the “peace and security that provide a foundation for global...
Internet.org justifies itself as a development project, for people like “poor fishermen” who are new to the internet or can’t afford it. But according to some accounts, that’s just not the profile of who’s using the service. In India, as many as 80% of internet.org users are already familiar with...
Try to picture one of the millions of people who convert their very limited income into mobile network credit. For many, a mobile account balance is effectively their first bank account. For this kind of person, “sponsored data” can be a smart way to socialize technology usage, accelerate adoptio...