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Provide the Nonprofit Voice to America's Broadband Plan

NTEN

The FCC should review policies governing competition and pricing. 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. The same is true for the nation's top cable companies. Bad policy decisions should be reversed. We should look to other models.

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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

Kipp has been a leading software developer in the region, creating software around election monitoring and government transparency just to name a few. We were supposed to start our visit with a very high government official, but instead Kipp took me over to Nairobi Women’s Hospital. Visiting the Hon. Roger Martin).

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