Makerspace Urbana Brings Tech Knowledge to UC-IMC
An unusual group for Urbana-Champaign has begun meeting at the IMC recently. They plan to forge a new model for creating and democratizing technology within the community. Urbana-Champaign has been...
View ArticleeBlack Project: Online and In The Community
The history of African-Americans in Champaign-Urbana has gone virtual! A new project, called eBlackChampaign- Urbana, is working to bring together the documentation of this important history online to...
View ArticleeBlack Symposium Builds Connections Between Campus and Community
ALTHOUGH WE WERE TOLD “SYMPOSIA” and “conferences” were too academic in nature—the eBlackChampaign- Urbana project team stood by the knowledge that community groups have conferences all the time...
View ArticleVolunteers Bring Open WiFi Network to Detroit
On December 8, volunteers Brian Duggan and Chris Ritzo of CuWin (Community Wireless) and the UCIMC Tech working group traveled to Detroit, MI to help build a community mesh wireless network. In four...
View ArticleOpen Invitation to the Follow-up Meeting of the eBlack C-U Campus-Community...
The eBlack CU Symposium was a great success, with over 180 people attending or all part of the event. The full record of the Symposium is available online for anyone to access at:...
View ArticleUC2B and the Digital Divide in Champaign-Urbana
In recent years, there has been a lot of talk about universal access to and affordability of high-speed internet services. In the 2009 stimulus package, $7.2 billion was allocated for broadband...
View ArticleTechnology and African-American History
As the Urbana-Champaign Big Broadband (UC2B) $30 million high-speed Internet infrastructure is constructed throughout Champaign-Urbana, we must come together as a community to find ways to use this...
View ArticleComing Soon to a Police Department Near You: Unmanned Aerial Drones
Raven. Predator. Reaper. Over the last decade, we’ve heard the news reports about the Pentagon’s cutting-edge unmanned aerial platforms flying missions over Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya,...
View Articleinternet.org Business Models Will Put NSA Equipment Vendors Out of Business
Today (August 21, 2013), Facebook and a private surveillance gang of seven announced the latest innovation in advertising, internet.org The group includes the closed-source web browser developer,...
View Article21st Century Slavery, Electronic Style
Somewhere in the middle of a November night in 2009 I got a phone call from my then 95 year old mother. She said she had chest pains, had already phoned 911 and thought she was having a heart attack....
View ArticleFacebook and Regulation
Facebook’s recent debacle with Cambridge Analytica may seem like just another one of a long list of security incidents in which the personal data of millions of people is compromised from large web...
View ArticleMakerspace Urbana Brings Tech Knowledge to UC-IMC
An unusual group for Urbana-Champaign has begun meeting at the IMC recently. They plan to forge a new model for creating and democratizing technology within the community. Urbana-Champaign has been...
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