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Regarding Facebook Internet.org:
- Here is the website internet.org
- Their "impact" page has videos (that look expensive, are aesthetically very attentively curated) of about one minute each that showcase different areas of impact - like education, girls' empowerment, entrepreneurship, etc., and the videos are in the language of the previously-internet-less location, with English subtitles. These videos could be the basis for analysis of how aesthetics are used by tech companies to produce a certain emotional discourse about Internet as an enabler and themselves a chartiable actors for deserving "under-developed" people.
- The page for Free Basics
- This Wired article discusses the history of the project from its launch in 2013 until 2018, five years later, with links to related reporting and primary souces online, some of which I am linking here as well. The article primarily focuses on business reasons for why the project did not go as Zuckerberg had planned.
- This research report by published by advox, a project of Global Voices that is centered on internet rights, has links to publicly-accessible screenshots of the Free Basics app in six countries, as well as specifiic case studies in those places.
- Another Wired article with a video of the explosion when SpaceX was trying to lauch a satellite for Facebook to expand internet in Africa.
- This is a link to the white paper that Zuckerberg wrote in 2013, "Is Connectivity a Human Right?" where he lays out his ideas that internet connectivity is one of the most important challenges facing the world, and how Facebook will address the problem that only about a third of the world's population was connected to the Internet.
- This 2017 article from the Guardian covers protests in India, where Facebook was accused of digital colonialism.
A little bit on OLPC:
- The OLPC website
- Their "stories" page, where they do not have videos, but rather slideshows with full-screen images and a small amout of text.
- A blog post covering its history by Larry Cuban, an academic who is commonly cited for this project
- A spanish-language TED Talk about OLPC from 2010
- Nicholas Negroponte's website
- Nicholas Negroponte's OLPC TED Talk
- OLPC News: an "independent community for One Laptop Per Child supporters"
- An independent website: "We have saved the domain olpc.com from other parties abusing it and harming the project."
Some other key groups' websites:
- Academic groups, at the University of Washington and at the University of Michigan
- Digital Green, a touted success story for Microsoft Research India, the tech giant's ICTD research group
- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which of course is funded in great part by the corporate tech success of Microsoft
- The United Nations Commision on Science and Technology for Development
- An older event's site, the World Summit on the Information Society
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