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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. They're doing some fabulous organizing around universal access and have provided some basic talking points for comments to the FCC. It's essential that they hear from us.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

As more and more users have come to rely on these online services, synergistic “network effects” have added both value and profitability to several dominant platform companies. Growing government support in South Korea provides one example of the possibilities. 39 This is a tiny share of the U.S. trillion in assets.

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We travel because we think it’s the most effective way to spread social change. We’ve spent a lot of time over the past few years advocating against cuts to the funding that supports our work, by pointing out how amazingly effective this funding is. We were demonstrating Bookshare to a person at one of Uganda’s top universities.

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