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Provide the Nonprofit Voice to America's Broadband Plan

NTEN

The FCC should review policies governing competition and pricing. Consumers in South Korea and Japan can get broadband speeds reaching 1 Gigabit per second (Gbps) for less than the monthly price a U.S. The same is true for the nation's top cable companies. Bad policy decisions should be reversed. We should look to other models.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Airbnb is another example of extractive platform capitalism, as the company delivers hearty profits to its private owners, who are far removed from local host communities. cities, Airbnb hosts avoid traditional hotel taxation.) In many U.S. But in the end, all of these avenues are quite limited in terms of the capital they can provide.

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I spent one day with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as they hosted an event for the Technology Partner Network (I’m one of a couple of hundred of tech advisors in the network). Kipp has been a leading software developer in the region, creating software around election monitoring and government transparency just to name a few.

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