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Media Infrastructure

A high-speed, unfettered Internet, community-based media arts organizations, PBS, NPR, Public/Educational/Government (PEG) public access stations, or mobile phones are all a part of our media infrastructure—GFEM provides funders with information to help them in supporting media infrastructure, whether local, national, or international.

After 10 Years, Federal Money for Technology in Education

[Source: The New York Times, by Elizabeth Jensen, January 24, 2010]
More than a decade ago, Lawrence K. Grossman, former president of both NBC News and PBS, and Newton N. Minow, the former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, were asked by several ...

Google Shakes Up Broadband Landscape With Fiber Build Initiative

[Source: BroadbandBreakfast.com, by Drew Clark, February 10, 2010]
Google shook up the broadband world on Wednesday with the announcement, on its blog, that it plans to offer super-fast broadband, at speeds of up to 1 Gigabit per second, to up to 500,000 ...

Final Round of Broadband Stimulus Funding Applications Open

[Source: Huffington Post, by Tony Shawcross, February 16, 2010]
Today marks the launch of the second - and final - round of applications for the Broadband Initiatives Program (BTOP): two initiatives within the Recovery Act that collectively represent what ...

FCC Chair Gives Nod to Google, Will Push for Ultra-Fast Broadband

[Source: Washington Post, by Cecilia Kang; February 16, 2010] The Federal Communications Commission will announce a plan to bring Internet speeds of 100 megabits a ...

Appalachia and Universal Broadband

[Source: Appalshop.org, February 10, 2010] If you want high-speed internet access, and you happen to live in certain areas on and around Eastern Kentucky's Pine Mountain--currently there's only ...

Resources: The Broadband Stimulus and How Funders Can Address the Needs of their Communities

In the Spring of 2010, an unprecedented $4.8 billion will be distributed via federal Stimulus funding for building out high-speed Internet/Broadband to unserved and underserved communities ...

Rural Broadband: The Cost of Exclusion

The Center for Rural Strategies contributed the following remarks to a recent public hearing on Digital Inclusion by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The event was part of a series ...
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Dealing with Broadband's Rural Downside

[Source: Daily Yonder, by Sharon Strover and Nick Muntean; November 18, 2009]
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Why Open Video?

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What is Open Video and what makes it an essential part of an engaged, inclusive media sphere?  How does Open Video promote free speech, diversity, and participation?
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Open Media Foundation Launches, Ramps Up Development of Open Source Tools

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Civic Pixel and Deproduction have officially become the Open Media Foundation (OMF) - putting the power of the media into the hands of the people in Denver as well as developing open source tools ...