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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. 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. It's essential that they hear from us.

America 44
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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Racist practices familiar within capitalism are also reproduced in the platform economy. an hour, and a national survey of Instacart workers found average wages (before expenses) of just $9.50 Research has found, for instance, that rideshare drivers of color systematically receive lower reviews and tips.

Platform 140
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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

However, I thought I’d back up the theory with a brief picture of what this kind of travel looks like in practice. It’s the week of the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative. We were demonstrating Bookshare to a person at one of Uganda’s top universities. That’s my theory, and I’m sticking to it.

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