Table of Contents
- Fueling the Fight for Net Neutrality
- Embracing Ranked-Choice Voting as a Pathway to Pluralism
- Measuring U.S. Drone Use and Misuse
- Fulfilling the Promise of Child Savings Accounts
- Linking the Individual Mandate and Social Responsibility
- Tracking Terrorism in the United States
- Early Education Doesn't End at Pre-K
- Making Higher Education Outcomes Transparent
- Redefining Care Policy
- Using TV "White Spaces" to Create Equitable Internet Access
- Investing in America's Future Thinkers
- Proposing the Public Option
- Creating a Public Interest Technology Sector
- Building a New Practice of Public Problem-Solving
- Expanding Access to High School-Age Youth for High-Quality Apprenticeship Opportunities
- Engaging North Korea
- A Universal 401(k) Plan
- Measuring the Internet for Everyone
- Rethinking Economic Policy
- Documenting the Long Wars
- Ranking Digital Rights
- Future Tense
- Using Fiction to Make Policy More…Realistic
- Pop-Up Magazine
- Developing an MA in Global Security
- Helping Communities Deploy Mesh Networks
- Partnering with Universities
Ranking Digital Rights
Idea
New America Fellow Rebecca Mackinnon saw the need to create a set of global human rights standards for companies in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector.
Incubation
Building on her 2012 book Consent of the Networked, which she wrote during her New America fellowship, Mackinnon established a coalition of partners who offered counsel and thought partnership on how to build such a set of global standards.
Impact
For the third year in a row, RDR produced a Corporate Accountability Index in 2019, which evaluates the world’s most powerful internet, mobile, and telecommunications companies based on how their disclosed policies and practices affect freedom of expression and privacy. The 2019 Index evaluated 24 companies and include all 22 previously-ranked companies, plus two new telecommunications companies. It has been covered widely in publications across the globe. More critically, a dozen of the companies listed in the 2018 Index have responded, with many reporting steps they have taken since the 2018 Index to improve.