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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

Racist practices familiar within capitalism are also reproduced in the platform economy. 48 The key, Rogers maintains, is to develop radical new strategies for financing social purpose investments, for funding communitarian rather than extractive business practices. But more is needed than Keynes’s economic “animal spirits.”

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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. She is a University of Minnesota law school professor who was born in Africa and is a terrific advocate for the Treaty and its empowerment of the blind community. That’s my theory, and I’m sticking to it. Roger Martin).

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