What Is The Digital Divide? youtube.com/shorts/CY3XD.... @internetsociety.bsky.social

What is community-centred connectivity? youtube.com/shorts/AOhsM...

Catch us this week at #MediaParty happening in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for an #PIMFargentina / Sandbox event 'Internet Pulse: Visibilizando la salud de la red' ft @manypossibilities.net, @joaoaguiar.blog.br, Juan Peirano, and Hernan Seoane pulse.internetsociety.org/en/events/pu...

The Open Fibre Data Standard (OFDS) website is now live at ofds.info. Tell your friends!

The book Internet Shutdowns in Africa: Technology, Rights and Power is here! Proud that our #KeepItOn Global Campaign Manager, Felicia Anthonio, and MENA Campaigner, @kassemmnejja.bsky.social, contributed. Dive in ▶️ www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

Canada's true crisis is the everyday emergency of just trying to get by in an impossible economy. I’m running for NDP leader so we can transform a system rigged for the rich—together. We need a government that serves the many, not the money. Join in. lewisforleader.ca/ youtu.be/IVy99oiYszY

Bill C-2 is anti-privacy, anti-rights, and anti-Canadian! Tell our leaders to scrap this dangerous bill NOW! #StopBillC2 @OpenMediaOrg openmedia.org/Stop-BillC2-bsky

Now’s a great time to pick up Alaa’s book, folks. It is perfectly titled: you have not yet been defeated Alaa was not defeated!

علاء علي الاسفلت!!!! Alaa is HOME and FREE!!!

Alaa Abdel Fattah: Egypt's president pardons prominent activist Amazing news!!

Wrote about Comer/Mace attempting to doxx and intimidate Wikipedia editors in an effort to force their own viewpoint onto Wikipedia.

LLMs are actually the perfect technology for American business society at the moment: a tireless sycophantic yes man that confidently hallucinates whatever horse shit your friendless soul-void craves? Obviously this was always going to be a hit with American executives

This. A thousand times this.

Crowd-sourced, interactive map outlining the connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations. www.surveillancewatch.io

The inimitable Russell Southwood of Balancing Act is back with a Substack! russellsouthwood.substack.com For anyone who has followed African telecoms over the years, Russell's newsletter has been a go-to source of news and insight. Highly recommend. :-)

and @mmasnick.bsky.social with the silver pen: "Litigious Company Demands Removal Of A Tweet Linking To An Article About How Litigious They Are" at Techdirt www.techdirt.com/2025/07/09/l...

Like others, I received a cease and desist letter [2] from Cloud Innovation regarding Emmanuel Vitus' Medium article "AFRINIC: Hope, Hijack, and the Harsh Lessons of African Multistakeholderism". 1/

Short form video is turning everyone's brains to mush

a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon

Here's one of the most important lessons from the creation of Direct File, IMHO: for a high-priority software project, an agency needs to protect a space for an Agile team to work in a user-centered, incremental way, damn the agency norms. A lot of people fought to protect that team, and it worked.

Independent UN panel determines that Alaa is being illegally detained. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m.... #freealaa

In case you still have interest www.instagram.com/p/DJUeqQhJ_y...

The Open Fibre Data Standard, a standardized way of describing terrestrial fibre optic networks. It's not rocket science but it could make a big difference. www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/04...

Bom dia Arte: Adam Zyglis

@africasacountry.bsky.social Where can Will Shoki's excellent essay/op-ed "Artificial Hype" be found online? Would like to share it more widely.

Kudos to @rondeibert.bsky.social for speaking truth so eloquently to power. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Powerful piece by La Quadrature du Net on the impact of undersea cable landings and datacentres in Marseille (en français) www.laquadrature.net/2024/11/20/a... H/T @ Niels Ten Oever

The first #PIMFmalysia session features Mark Tinka and @stevesong.bsky.social Follow the thread to see who else is presenting:

DeepSeek and the Dangerous A.I. Nonsense That Trump and Biden Fell For | NYT OpEd by @zey.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

Heartbreaking to read of the death of Mark Weinberg. Decent, principled, and committed. A tireless campaigner for accountability, transparency, and the rights of the disempowered. Hamba kahle. groundup.org.za/article/thre...

Hi all, I'm a WIRED journalist on the science desk. If you're a government scientist or federally funded researcher with info to share about the Trump transition, please feel free to contact me securely on Signal: emullin.06

The Trans-Saharan Fiber Optic Backbone or Dorsale transsaharienne à fibre optique (DTS) is 97% complete www.agenceecofin.com/actualites-n.... #Niger

What goes around comes around. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The Tanzanian regulator have announced plans to auction four blocks of spectrum in 3.6-3.8GHz in July 2025. The spectrum licenses will come with coverage obligations. www.ippmedia.com/the-guardian...

Safaricom seeks approval to build undersea cable itweb.africa/content/Kjly... #Kenya

I have been wanting Signal's "Note to Self" feature forever. How did I only find out about this now?

I love beautiful online maps. Well I love maps in general but there is another dimension of elegance in maps with great online UIs. This map of how far you can get in 40 minutes from any one subway stop in NYC is one of those. subwaysheds.com

It's a long shot, since I basically have 0 followers here :) I want to build a community platform on top of ATProto. And I wonder if there is something already existing? I am talking about local first, small size (< 50k people).

We've got a number of open positions to work with a dynamite global team of Internet advocates and technologists here at @internetsociety.bsky.social and our Foundation! 1/4

Chad plans to deploy 1,200 km of fibre to improve network coverage | Le Tchad prévoit de déployer 1200 km de fibre pour améliorer la couverture réseau www.agenceecofin.com/actualites-n... #AfTerFibre #Africa #Tchad #Chad

If I had my way, we would never talk about 'percentage change'. Looks great on a graph but it amplifies the insignificant and diminishes change at scale.

The Kenyan regulator has introduced new fees for satellite operators like Starlink. An increase in the 15 year license fee, from USD12K to USD115K and a new annual levy of 0.4% of gross turnover. techpoint.africa/2025/01/08/k...

Regulation matters

An Astronomer’s Appeal for Satellite Regulation physics.aps.org/articles/v17... #leo #starlink #constellation

The little ride-hailing app that could catch Uber and Bolt in Kenya restofworld.org/2025/uber-bo...

Dumping in Africa goes Orbital. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/w...

Net Neutrality flip-flops again in the US. 🤦 www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/t...

This year, rather than the usual annual African telecom review, I am posting a new Open Data map of African datacentres. 65 datacentres listed including Digital Realty, Cassava Technologies, Wingu Africa, Raxio, and many more. opentelecomdata.org/africa-datac...