Building Safety into Digital Inclusion: Key Takeaways from the USA’s Digital Equity Act Report
Building Safety Into Digital Inclusion Efforts: Risks and Opportunities in the Digital Equity Act takes a deep dive into the expansion of broadband access in the USA, and it highlights the importance of building safety and cybersecurity into digital inclusion efforts. Team CommUNITY’s staff were interviewed for the report, which provides recommendations to USA state and territory broadband offices regarding what they can do to mitigate the potential harms.
The Calyx Institute: Getting to Know their Work and Tools that Make Privacy and Security Accessible to Everyone
We talked with Nicholas Merrill, the Calyx Institute’s funder and a well known technologist and privacy advocate - he refused to hand over his customer’s data when requested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and spent twelve years taking them on. Learn more about Calyx’s mission, their initiatives and tools, including the celebrated open source, Android-based mobile operating system, CalyxOS!
BCJB: Getting to Know their Work Improving Journalistic Safety in the US-Mexico Border
We talked with Jorge Luis Sierra, president of the Border Center for Journalists and Bloggers (BCJB), which provides support and resources for journalists and bloggers working on the Mexican-US border. This post is part of our new Community Series, where we share stories of the people and projects behind the digital Rights community!