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Provide the Nonprofit Voice to America's Broadband Plan

NTEN

Flickr Photo by Chi King The Federal Communications Commission is seeking public comment on how to draft America's national broadband plan. It also requires the FCC to begin drafting a national broadband plan. None of the nation’s largest telephone companies compete against one another. It's essential that they hear from us.

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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

It’s the week of the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative. Kipp has been a leading software developer in the region, creating software around election monitoring and government transparency just to name a few. Hopefully, it will give you a flavor of why this travel is worth it to me and Benetech!

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