A series of studies by John Dunbar and Jacob Fenton at the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University on the links between poverty, rural life and lack of broadband access.
Category Archives: Internet Freedom
Digital inclusion and who controls the Internet
DTV Help Centers Team Up To Deal With E-Waste
The digital television transition, completed successfully by the United States on June 12, 2009, is generating a large flow of electronic waste as consumers continue to upgrade their televisions. We all want to recycle responsibly, but how? Continue reading DTV Help Centers Team Up To Deal With E-Waste
E-Waste: What to do with that old TV, Phone or Computer
Recycling resources in the East Bay that are responsible and community-oriented. For analog TV’s, old computers and cell phones … and more.
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
Oakland Digital Inclusion Summit (ODIS) Reader
The Oakland Digital Inclusion Summit was a vital event for community sharing, networking, access to information and a framework for moving forward. Click here for the summit reader: some of the best resources on community broadband implementation around.
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 where grassroots groups and members of the community gathered to discuss the the Internet.
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.