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Provide the Nonprofit Voice to America's Broadband Plan

NTEN

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. Encouraging residential adoption should be a top priority through educational programs and funding for schools and community organizations. Access and the Digital Divide. Net Neutrality.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Thus was born Craigslist, which soon expanded into a web-based platform where users could connect directly with each other at will to sell, trade, and donate goods, services, and gigs. It was the early stirrings of what we now call the “platform economy.”. The early promise of this emerging platform economy seemed fantastical.

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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 had a chance to meet with staffers involved in the drafting of two key federal bills that are most likely to be adopted, and shared my issues. 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 is what my team calls a karma gig.

New York 100