Steve Song

The Digital Divide YouTube video by Internet Society

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

Community-Centered Connectivity YouTube video by Internet Society

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...

Home — Open Fibre Data Standard

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

Book cover: Digtal Africa. Edited by Felicia Anthonio & Tony Roberts. Internet Shutdowns in Africa. Technology, Rights and Power.

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...

Why I’m running for NDP leader YouTube video by Avi Lewis

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

Stop Carney’s Surveillance Plan: Stop Bill C–2! Bill C-2 threatens our privacy, erodes our freedoms, and grants the government unchecked surveillance powers. Tell Mark Carney: surrendering to U.S. data demands isn’t leadership — it’s a betrayal of ...

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 The British-Egyptian activist is one of six people whose sentences President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi commuted, according to state media.

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.

Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s...

Surveillance Watch: They Know Who You Are Surveillance Watch is an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.

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

Russell Southwood | Substack Click to read Russell Southwood, a Substack publication. Launched 4 months ago.

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. :-)

AI for good, with caveats: How a keynote speaker was censored during an international artificial intelligence summit Q&A with Abeba Birhane on how she was censored during the AI for good summit and how the industry can do better.

thebulletin.org/2025/07/ai-f...

Litigious Company Demands Removal Of A Tweet Linking To An Article About How Litigious They Are It’s not every day you watch a company faceplant so theatrically in public, but Cloud Innovation’s latest stunt deserves a slow clap. Cloud Innovation, which you’d probably never heard of unless yo…

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...

A partial screenshot of a formal letter on Albert Sellars LLP letterhead dated July 8, 2025, addressed to Ian Phua of Cloud Innovation Ltd in Seychelles. The sender is Kendra Albert, a partner at Albert Sellars LLP. The letter responds to a July 2 demand titled “DEMAND FOR IMMEDIATE REMOVAL OF DEFAMATORY ARTICLE AND CESSATION OF FURTHER DISTRIBUTION.” Albert notes the firm represents Dr. Joseph Lorenzo Hall. The letter critiques the July 2 demand for being vague and overly urgent, suggesting it appears intended to intimidate rather than raise legitimate legal concerns.

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

emotion wheel starting with "joy, fear, anger" in the center and then lapsing into gibberish

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

The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced Direct File has been open sourced, and its creators have left government to continue working on the "future of tax filing."

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.

Egypt illegally detaining Alaa Abd el-Fattah, UN investigators find Report says British-Egyptian writer held for expressing political views and should be released without delay

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...

Do you know whether this Airtel using Starlink for small, rural cell backhaul or Airtel as Starlink distributor/reseller?

The Open Fibre Data Standard - Internet Society The Open Fibre Data Standard (OFDS) is an open data, open standards initiative supported by the Internet Society.

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...

A brief history of self regulation Cartoon by Adam Zyglis

Bom dia

Arte: Adam Zyglis

@waldo.net ?

The lack of an authoritative source for the content remains an issue does it not?

Feels weird. I'd love to share the entire essay with others but don't want to violate your copyright. I'd rather point to your website.