Internet Multi-Stakeholder Cooperative Solution to Digital Divide

Internet Multi-Stakeholder Cooperative Solution to Digital Divide

Cut out the middleman A new community-owned internet cooperative is helping to bridge the digital divide for underserved New Yorkers by providing low cost wifi systems. The People’s Choice cooperative has five hubs in the Bronx and may expand to more New York housing complexes soon. People’s Choice Communications is an employee-owned social enterprise launched…

Faced with limited resources, Indigenous communities built their own internet. Here’s how.

Faced with limited resources, Indigenous communities built their own internet. Here’s how.

there hasn’t been incentive for major internet service providers to do the work instead. “Because of politics, geography, regulations, people were left out… The market-based approach has failed or isn’t profitable in these communities,” Buell said. As both Buell and Rantanen explain, many providers don’t believe the possible revenue from a small community is worth…