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Provide the Nonprofit Voice to America's Broadband Plan

NTEN

The plan will help determine the future of Internet access across the country. As organizations with a stake in the future of communications, we must ensure that the commissioners hear our call for fast, affordable, ubiquitous, and open Internet access. It also requires the FCC to begin drafting a national broadband plan.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Back in 1995, in the early days of the internet, a San Francisco innovator named Craig Newmark started a small email distribution list for friends, highlighting local events across the Bay Area. cities, Airbnb hosts avoid traditional hotel taxation.) Growing government support in South Korea provides one example of the possibilities.

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I spent one day with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as they hosted an event for the Technology Partner Network (I’m one of a couple of hundred of tech advisors in the network). Took pictures of the lunar eclipse next to the Empire State Building(!) And much more… Washington, D.C. I then zipped down to DC for three days.

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