With much of life and learning moved online during the pandemic, access to high-speed internet has been more essential than ever. However major disparities persist in who has that access. According to ...

NYC Mesh, a band of a few dozen tech volunteers, takes on Verizon and the big “incumbent providers,” with the promise of inexpensive community internet. Daniel Heredia working this spring to bring ...

Before Marco Antonio Santana could speak English, he was speaking computers. Now, the 32-year-old, who grew up in a Dominican household in New York City, helps provide high-speed fiber internet ...

Want To Guarantee Net Neutrality? Join Peer-To-Peer, Community-Run Internet Across the country, new local mesh networks--which become more powerful as more people use them--are an alternative to big ...

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Meta Mesh Wireless Communities has seen its share of changes in just a few months, from new leadership to an infusion of grant dollars. Now, it’s getting a new name to go with an expanded approach to ...

Real changes in communities are evident in Portland as a result of a wide range of community Internet projects, some of them long-established. Portland”s Neighborhood Pride Team, initially founded to ...

The Internet is injecting new energy into many U.S. cities as public, private, and nonprofit institutions realize that a powerful new communications tool can transform the traditional roles of ...