Category Archives: White Space

BroadBand Technology

Posted on May 24, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Broadband research is a McGill area of expertise. Meet researchers such as David Plant, Tho Le-Ngoc, and Mark Coates who are on the cutting edge of machine to machine communication, high-speed internet technologies, and wireless communications. Dialogos of Eide

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BroadBand Portals of the OECD

Posted on April 17, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Tim Berners-Lee, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium and inventor of the World Wide Web, talks about the challenges ahead and why an open Internet is key to its continuing success *** The OECD broadband portal provides access to … Continue reading →

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Neural Connections?

Posted on October 4, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Wiki Growth Over Time  This is a project conducted by ChrisDavis and IgorNikolic to visualize the growth of wiki.tudelft.nl since its beginning in late 2004. Since then, it has grown to over 10,000 pages, and is now part of the … Continue reading →

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CERN brings hardware into the open

Posted on July 17, 2011 by PlatoHagel

It good to see great minds think alike?:) The Open Hardware Repository was inspired by the success of open-source software. (Image courtesy CERN.) Hardware and software go hand in hand – one doesn’t work without the other. Despite being so … Continue reading →

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Broadband in a Full Democracy

Posted on May 16, 2011 by PlatoHagel

White space in telecommunications refers to unused frequencies in the radio waves portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. National and international bodies assign differing frequencies for specific uses, and in some cases license the rights to these. This frequency allocation process … Continue reading →

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Digital Future Survey:You Should Look

Posted on May 2, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Digital Future Survey: The Parties Respond *** To whom it may concern: The early Internet was so accidental, it also was free and open in this sense. The Internet has become as important as anything man has ever created. But … Continue reading →

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We Cannot Apply Constraints to Communication?

Posted on January 14, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Is the public winners in decisions that “add more cost” to what should be access to “freedoms of information?” The Cathedral and the Bizarre by Jeff Lewis The problem there is that the ‘capitalist trench’ problem is just as real … Continue reading →

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Free Access to the Universal Library?

Posted on June 14, 2009 by PlatoHagel

“The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, archi­tectural drawings, and other … Continue reading →

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Events → Richard M. Stallman Speeches

Posted on January 15, 2009 by PlatoHagel

Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often abbreviated “rms”,[2] is an American software freedom activist, hacker,[3] and software developer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project[4] to create a free Unix-like operating system, and has been the project’s … Continue reading →

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Larry Page in Support of White Space?

Posted on November 10, 2008 by PlatoHagel

The United States 700 MHz FCC wireless spectrum auction was started by the FCC on January 24, 2008 for the rights to operate the 700 MHz frequency band in the United States. The details of process were the subject of … Continue reading →

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