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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. Access and the Digital Divide. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 set aside $7.2

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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. Instacart allows customers to use a digital app to choose a shopper, who picks up requested groceries and delivers them to the customer’s location.

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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. Carol’s social enterprise in Nairobi employs over 100 students working to proofread books for our Bookshare digital library. We were demonstrating Bookshare to a person at one of Uganda’s top universities.

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