[governance] Knight Commission on public polocy: "Net neutrality is a good place start, and so is open data"

[Rui Correia]

"Public policy has a role to play in fostering an entrepreneurial,
innovative, reinvented journalistic sphere that, in the language of the
recent Knight Commission Report, sustains democracy in a digital age. Net
neutrality is a good place start, and so is open data, but government might
have additional roles to play in stabilizing precarious local news
ecosystems -- as long as such support does not unfairly benefit monopolistic
incumbents. Is it possible for large, unwieldy government bureaucracies like
the Federal Trade Commission to strike this balance? Questions like this are
really questions about whether it is possible to envision a meaningful
public life that lies beyond both the market and our supposedly "unfettered"
digital space (which is actually far from unfettered). In asking these
questions, we're really inquiring about the viability of democracy itself."

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My number in Luanda: (+244) 936144613
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Rui Correia
Advocacy, Human Rights, Media and Language Consultant
Angola Liaison Consultant
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