Category Archives: Internet Freedom

Digital inclusion and who controls the Internet

Digital Infrastructure, By the Community, For The Community

 

by Eloise Lee

In East Palo Alto, we’ve realized that it’s not a case of ‘if you build it, they will come.’

Just because technology is in place doesn’t necessarily mean people will find value in it,” states Dr. Faye McNair-Knox, executive director of One East Palo Alto—an organizational member of the East Palo Alto Digital Village Program. “Working alongside groups who provide essential services to local residents has helped us to partner with individuals who have not participated to become familiar with the technology and develop their own value for it. You really have to build that whole base of value within a community for people to access technology.” Continue reading Digital Infrastructure, By the Community, For The Community

The FCC Bus: One Person’s Story

 

Printed courtesy of Poor News Network and authors Guillermo Gonzalez and Gloria Esteva

I sat in a dark, foreboding hall at Stanford University listening to the words of resistance of Gloria Esteva (staff writer of POOR Magazine/PoorNewsNetwork and member of the Voces de Immigrantes en Resistencia at the Race, Poverty and Media Justice Institute at POOR). As I listened I felt truly inspired. Continue reading The FCC Bus: One Person’s Story

National Broadband Policy for the Twenty-First Century: Thoughts from the Grassroots

 

This Media Alliance report is a compilation of several events held in the state of California in 2008 where grassroots groups and members of the community gathered to discuss the the Internet.

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