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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

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.) Growing government support in South Korea provides one example of the possibilities.

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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). We were demonstrating Bookshare to a person at one of Uganda’s top universities. And much more… Washington, D.C. Bookshare was there with two offers.

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