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Provide the Nonprofit Voice to America's Broadband Plan

NTEN

If you're an NTEN Member -- or have been lurking around for awhile -- you know that Universal Broadband Access is an issue we care deeply about. The plan will help determine the future of Internet access across the country. Transition the Universal Service Fund from supporting telephone service to supporting broadband.

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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). We were demonstrating Bookshare to a person at one of Uganda’s top universities. And much more… Washington, D.C. Bookshare was there with two offers.

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