Digital inclusion and who controls the Internet
An American Community survey using 2015 data provided a list of the 185 cities in the United States with the worst household broadband connectivity. The data was released by NDIA.
Leading the list were Detroit, MI, Brownsville, TX and Cleveland, OH. The worst-connected California cities were San Bernardino, Fresno and Sacramento. Continue reading Worst Connected Cities
On March 15, 2017, new FCC chairman Ajit Pai gave his first public speech at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University.
Trump’s appointee credited high speed broadband with the democratization of entrepreneurship. Continue reading The First Pai Speech
Guest: Regina Costa, TURN
Host: Tracy Rosenberg
Subject: Net Neutrality and the Future of the Internet
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Huffington Post May 22 2010
As we arrive at the end of the long health care reform battle with something less than nirvana, media activists have been waiting with bated breath for the release of the long-awaited National Broadband Plan from the Federal Communications Commission.
Well over a year in the making, the plan sets a course for the future of the online communications system — a system that materially affects every American’s ability to access information and express themselves.
It’s not exactly the public option.
Posted by Tracy Rosenberg on April 20 2010
MA teamed with the LA Media Reform group to travel down to Orange County and the Inland Empire and speak to Dems who aren’t supporting net neutrality.
Using the 3rd Annual LA Media Justice Summit as our organizing platform, a week later on April 6th, a team of intrepid media reformers went out to visit Representative Joe Baca- San Bernardino and Representative Loretta Sanchez-Garden Grove to say net neutrality now.
The visits were good conversations and left us hopeful that our Internet future may be bright.
If we’ve inspired *you* to pay a visit to your representatives and make sure they are on board with net neutrality: here’s a handy guide to legislative visits:
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Huffington Post December 24, 2010
Sometimes you might get it.
For most of the past year, public interest groups worried about the future of the Internet have pushed for action on net neutrality by the Federal Communications Commission. In response to that call, Chairman Julius Genachowski moved in the spring to reclassify broadband services, proposing a light regulatory protocol as a “third way”.
After that didn’t exactly take off, the chair convened meetings with industry including AT&T, Skype, Verizon and Google, meetings that broke down after Google and Verizon announced a deal that would introduce paid content prioritization. In the ensuing uproar, the issue once again rose to the level of a burning public debate with right-wing accusations of “Obamacare for the Internet” competing with public interest laments about slow lanes on the Internet to come for alternative news, independent artists and musicians, and community groups. Continue reading Be Careful What You Wish For
Watch the video of the 2011 DC Launch of Black Voices for Internet Freedom.
Posted on August 5th, 2013
Open Technology Institute
This short video from the Open Technology Institute features community broadband projects: Brooklyn, Detroit, and Dharmasala.
