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Sascha Meinrath, Director of the Open Technology Initiative at the New America Foundation, discusses digital feudalism, enclosed systems, and the push for opening up critical infrastructures.
Sascha Meinrath, Director of the Open Technology Initiative at the New America Foundation, discusses the benefits of community-owned broadband infrastructure, and the obstacles to building out services posed by private corporations.
Sascha Meinrath, Director of the Open Technology Initiative at the New America Foundation, outlines the four action items he presented in his keynote address at the Alliance for Community Media 2010 Conference in Pittsburgh.
Sascha Meinrath, Director of the Open Technology Initiative at the New America Foundation, discusses the role of PEG and community media centers in a functioning democratic society, and the critical need to fight the systematic de-funding of institutions for participatory media.