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Provide the Nonprofit Voice to America's Broadband Plan

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Consumers in South Korea and Japan can get broadband speeds reaching 1 Gigabit per second (Gbps) for less than the monthly price a U.S. In drafting the framework for open Internet policy, we must guard against discrimination and anti-competitive practices on all Internet platforms. Bad policy decisions should be reversed.

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MCON13 Live Blog: Millennial Giving (Alia McKee, Sea Change Strategies and Justin Wheeler, LINK)

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People make decisions based on the value-groups with with they most strongly identify. Millennials like instant gratification (in this case a trip to south korea to meet the refugees your funds rescued). We are more like Homer Simpson, making decisions on impuses, ruled by emotion. It''s a simple question but hard to crack.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Met with a major international human rights defender group about our Martus technology and digital security more generally. Kipp’s idea was that we could take this paper-based rape reporting system and build it on top of our Martus secure human rights software platform. This time, I had the benefit of help. Visiting the Hon.

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