Posts tagged: Community Internet
Change or Cha-Ching
Change has come to America. Well, sort of.
On "K" Street - home to Washington's most powerful corporate lobbyists - it's business as usual.
Nowhere is this more evident than in the scrum of lobbyists gathering around President Obama's economic stimulus package.
Free Wireless Helps One Family in LA
InternetforEveryone.org visited with the Quintero family in Los Angeles to hear how free wireless opened one working class family's "window to the world."
Solving Access from the Bottom Up
There is a difference between available and accessible. In New York City, practically every household has at least one option for moderate-speed Internet service. Most have two: Time Warner and Cablevision connect to 98% of households and Verizon offers DSL to 87%.
Yet less than half of the city purchases the service. Broadband adoption rates in the Bronx rival those in rural America.
Broadband Access for the Next Generation!
Through any media, broadband access represents the future common means of sharing ideas and organizing people to act, regardless of frontiers.
Now is the time for local communities to advance broadband media access in the spirit of Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinion
In a Time of Bailouts, Broadband Extension Must Be Paired With Fiscal Responsibility
It is highly encouraging to see the groundswell of support for establishing a comprehensive national broadband strategy that will help make internet access a reality for more Americans.
