Tag: Peter Dresslar
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Mobile Data Speeds In Pacific Territories Are Being Left Behind
Guam, CNMI, and American Samoa mobile data speeds have approximately doubled in the last 5 years, according to our analysis. That is versus a national trend of 4- 5- and 6-fold increases.
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Boeing’s Crisis Can Drive Air Cabotage Reform for America’s Pacific
My flight home to O‘ahu—like hundreds of others—has been cancelled, with the situation prompting me to reflect on the state of air travel across the islands of the United States in the Pacific; specifically, our dependency on a few American-flagged air carriers.
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AI Translator Part 2: Building And Testing The App
Håfa ådai! In our last post, we introduced our (still very much in beta!) AI-powered language translator tailored to serve Pacific Islander languages, starting with Samoan. As part of the Pacific Broa…
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Can AI Grasp Pacific Languages? Inside Our Push for an AI Samoan Translator
Our non-profit built a Samoan-English AI translator to assess equity gaps. Testing top platforms revealed mixed translation capabilities for Pacific languages. Our project explores limitations and ideas to improve access; much work remains to steer AI responsibly.
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If Elon Musk Thinks AIs Will Take Over China, Wait Until He Hears About Humans with AIs
Last week, a senior official from a state government who happens to be a friend and former colleague texted me an article. The piece, from Business Insider, reported on Elon Musk’s warning to China’s leaders about the threat of superintelligent AI taking control of their country. My friend, aware of my current work with AI,…
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The Pulse of Pacific Broadband: Taking a Deeper Dive
Today Pacific Broadband and Digital Equity has announced significant additional data available at its Resources Page. Extending upon the processing of the data generated by Ookla and its Speedtest data, our team has completed the process of filtering out full records for Pacific island territories and insular areas of the United States. We have also…
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Dresslar Briefs Congressional Offices Of American Samoa And CNMI
On a busy week for Broadband in Washington DC, Pacific Broadband and Digital Equity (PBDE) Founder Peter Dresslar visited the Congressional delegations from the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands and American Samoa and briefed the Congressional delegation from Guam. The briefings focused on issues where the territories have a particular interest in working together…
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Powering Regional Broadband Map Challenges
Earlier this year, Pacific Broadband and Digital Equity (PBDE) supplied comprehensive technical assistance for comprehensive FCC Broadband Map challenges filed by each of Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. As the challenges continue to be evaluated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and addressed by the Internet Service Providers (ISP)…