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Community Broadband Bits 7 - Mary Beth Henry of Portland, Oregon
For the 7th Community Broadband Bits podcast, we talk with Mary Beth Henry from Portland, Oregon. Mary Beth is the Director of the Portland Office for Community Technology and Mt Hood Cable Regulatory...
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"How a Municipal Network Can Help Your City" Archive Now Available
Last week, Christopher Mitchell of ILSR joined other broadband and municipal network experts to present the webinar "How a Municipal Network Can Help Your City" from the National League of...
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New Fact Sheet: Community Broadband and Public Savings
We have already published a fact sheet on the critical role community broadband plays in job development. Now, ILSR presents a collection of how commnity owned broadband networks save money for local...
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CenturyLink Seeks Apartment Buildings for Gigabit in Portland
In the wake of Google's announcement that Portland could be one of the next communities for the Google Fiber network, CenturyLink is circulating an offer to select apartment buildings to apply for...
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Next Century Cities Launch Webcast on October 20
Municipalities are increasingly realizing they need to take steps to ensure fast, affordable, reliable Internet access for local citizens. Some are doing the work themselves with publicly owned...
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Portlanders Launch Grassroots Campaign for Municipal Broadband in Oregon
Interest in broadband as a utility continues to rise across the country and in places where elected officials need a show of support, grassroots groups are stepping up. Recently in Portland, Oregon, a...
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Municipal Broadband PDX Asks Portlanders to Call on Local Officials for Support
This past summer, a group of Portlanders with digital equity as a primary goal, launched Municipal Broadband PDX. The grassroots organization seeks to mobilize folks from the Rose City to let their...
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Neighborly Announces 35 Communities Joining Accelerator Program
Earlier this summer, we talked with Jase Wilson and Lindsey Brannon from Neighborly, the investment firm that uses online investing to allow individuals to invest in publicly owned infrastructure...
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Organizing for Better Broadband in the Portland, Oregon, Region - Community...
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Portland Is In: City to Contribute to Regional Feasibility Study
In a February Facebook post, the good folks at Municipal Broadband PDX out of Portland, Oregon, shared the news that the city will be contributing to the cost of a broadband feasibility study. The...
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Multnomah County, Municipal Broadband PDX, Reaching Out to Residents for...
Earlier this year, community leaders in Portland, Oregon, decided to join other cities in Multnomah County to commission a broadband feasibility study. The goal of the study is to examine the potential...
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Net Inclusion 2020, Portland, April 7th - 9th
As we trudge through the snow in Minneapolis, we dream about spring weather and Net Inclusion 2020. It’s one of our favorite annual events and this year folks will gather in Portland, Oregon, to...
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To Get Students Online, Schools Cover Cost of Comcast Low-Income Plans
To connect students on the wrong side of the digital divide, school districts in a number of cities, including Portland, Oregon and San Francisco, California, are working with Comcast to sponsor the...
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Multnomah County, Oregon Study Shows That a Countywide Network Can Be Done
Along the banks of the Columbia River, Multnomah County (pop. 813,000), Oregon is considering a publicly owned Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) network after being handed a study more than a year in the...
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New Study: Digital Equity Requires Local Solutions
Caroline Stratton, Assistant Professor in the School of Information at the University of Florida, has published a new article looking at the digital equity plans of four major U.S. cities with the aim...
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