Unit 2 Lesson 7

Name(s)_______________________________________________ Period ______ Date ___________________ 

  Project Guide - Internet Dilemmas 

Background 
You are the Chief Technology Advisor for a candidate running for elected office. Your candidate is relying on you to
help inform her about important technological dilemmas and come up with good policy ideas to address them. For this
project you’ll investigate a social dilemma related to the Internet and prepare a report summarizing your findings and
making a policy recommendation for your candidate.

Step 1 - Pick Your Dilemma 

Net Neutrality  Internet Censorship  The Digital Divide 

Background: ​Internet users love Background: ​While the Internet is Background: ​While technology is
services like streaming movies, used to share many useful services increasingly integrated into daily life,
video chatting, or online gaming. All and information, there are growing there are still many who lack access
of this content needs to travel over concerns about the way that the to the Internet or digital technology.
the Internet, however, and the Internet can be used to spread In rural areas there are challenges
companies that build and maintain damaging information ranging from building networks to connect
networks are complaining about the national secrets to calls for violence. geographically sparse populations,
increased demands being placed on Censoring this information may but even in cities some groups or
their networks. Your candidate is provide some people with increased areas have relatively less access to
hearing more and more about a security, but potentially risks free the Internet or knowledge of how to
debate called “net neutrality” and speech and the safety of social and use it. Your candidate is worried that
would like a more informed opinion political activists. Your candidate while technology is bringing social
as part of her platform. would like to have a policy that and economic benefits to many,
balances these two concerns in a there are others being left behind.
way that makes sense for our digital
age.

Core Question: ​When and how Core Question: ​When and how Core Question: ​When and how
should internet service providers be should the government be allowed to should resources be invested to
allowed to treat some kinds of censor or block internet traffic, if at close gaps between those who do
internet traffic different from others? all? and don’t use the Internet?

Impacted Groups Impacted Groups Impacted Groups

● Internet Service Providers (ISP) ● Everyday internet user ● Those lacking internet access
● Internet Content Provider ● Intelligence Agencies ● Internet Service Providers (ISP)
● Everyday internet Users ● Political activists ● Schools and libraries

Sources Sources Sources

● "How the end of net neutrality ● "Free Speech Or Hate Speech: ● "Eliminating the Digital Divide"
could change the internet" When Does Online Hate Speech (video): ​link
(video): ​link Become A Real Threat?" (audio ● "Internet/Broadband Fact Sheet"
● "'Net Neutrality' is ending. Here's article): ​link (article): ​link
how your internet could change" ● "Internet Censorship Explained" ● Wikipedia - the Digital Divide:
(article): ​link (video): ​link link
● "Wikipedia - Net Neutrality": ​link ● Wikipedia - Internet Censorship:
link

   
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Step 2 - Review the One-Pager and Rubric 

Review the one pager template and rubric to make sure you understand what you’ll be responsible for creating for this
project and how it’ll be evaluated.

Step 3 - Review the Concept Bank 

This concept bank includes the key terms and concepts covered in this unit. Quickly review them before reading your
articles so that you’ll be ready to identify them in your articles. You can also refer to these as you complete your
one-pager.

Protocols / Layers Networks Packets and World Wide Web Internet Principles
Physical internet, IP, Fiber optic cable, Routing Web pages, Redundancy, fault
TCP, UDP, HTTP, copper wire, wifi, Packet metadata, IP browsers, servers, tolerance, scalability,
DNS router, path, direct addresses, dynamic domain, world wide open protocols
connection, routing, web
bandwidth

Step 4 - Review Your Sources 

Review the three sources provided or additional ones you find online. For each source take notes on instances when
your impacted groups are mentioned or technical details are explained.

Source Notes on Impacted Groups Notes on Technical Details

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Name(s)_______________________________________________ Period ______ Date ___________________ 

  Internet Dilemma Policy One Pager 

To complete this one pager fill in each of the sections below. All text in italics is included to explain how to fill
in the one pager and can be deleted before you submit.

Core Question 
Copy and paste this directly from your dilemma above

Impacted Groups 
Fill in the table below with your Impacted Groups. You may optionally add new groups or split one of the ones assigned
into smaller subgroups if it will help better explain who’s involved in the dilemma.

Impacted Group and Description Interests, Benefits, and Harms

Group 1: Write the name of the group and provide a Explain the interests of this group, as well as ways that
brief description / examples of who they are they could benefit or be harmed because of the
dilemma.
Can be bullets
Can be bullets

Group 2: Write the name of the group and provide a Explain the interests of this group, as well as ways that
brief description / examples of who they are they could benefit or be harmed because of the
dilemma.
Can be bullets
Can be bullets

Group 3: Write the name of the group and provide a Explain the interests of this group, as well as ways that
brief description / examples of who they are they could benefit or be harmed because of the
dilemma.
Can be bullets
Can be bullets

Technical Background 
Explain the technical background necessary to understand the problem. Include:

● Background on layers / protocols / principles of the Internet necessary to understand the dilemma
● Use the concept bank on the first page to help brainstorm ideas to include. A strong description will reference
several of these concepts
● Make sure your descriptions are approachable for your candidate, who does not have as strong of a
background in the way the Internet works
● This can be completed in bullets
Recommended Policy Solution 
Give a recommendation for what policy or solution your candidate should advocate for. Your solution could be a law
that should be passed or repealed, a government policy, or a technological solution your candidate should promote.

Recommended Policy: ​In at most two sentences summarize the solution / action your candidate should support

Pros / Who Benefits Cons / Who is Harmed?

● Can be bullets ● Can be bullets

   

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Extensive Convincing Limited Evidence No Evidence

Category
Evidence Evidence

Completed research Research guide All three provided Only one or two No evidence that
guide demonstrates use indicates sources are sources were sources were used
of multiple sources referencing three or referenced referenced
more sources.
provided are
referenced

Interests, benefits, and Interests, benefits, Interests, benefits, Interests, benefits, No description of
harms of all impacted and harms for all and harms of most and harms are impacts on different
groups are clearly groups, including groups are provided either limited, groups
explained possibly additional and accurate. inaccurate, or
groups beyond the incomplete.
required three, are
provided.

Technical details reflect Extensive technical Many technical Few technical No technical details
an accurate and detailed details are provided details are provided details provided. provided
understanding of the demonstrating that accurately Some may be
internet broad reflect how the inaccurate.
understanding of internet works
how the internet
works

Technical details are All technical details Most of the Many of the No technical details
clear and described for a are clear and easily technical details technical details provided
non-technical audience read by a provided can be provided are
non-technical understood by a confusing to a
audience non-technical non-technical
audience audience

A clear policy Policy Policy Policy No policy

recommendation is recommendation is recommendation is recommendation recommendation
provided that is justifiable and clear clear but some provided but is provided
justifiable based on other based on aspects may not disconnected from
information in both build upon other information in
information in the
other sections of information one-pager
one-pager one-pager elsewhere in the
one-pager

Reasonable benefits and Benefits and harms Benefits and harms Benefits and harms No benefits and
harms of the policy to all impacted to most impacted are limited or not harms are provided
choice on different groups are clearly groups are clearly tied to specific
impacted groups are explained explained groups
provided

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