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.

Knight Foundation Invests in Detroit's Broadband Infrastructure

[Source: Knight Foundation, November 4, 2009] Knight Foundation believes that digital access is critical to thriving communities. The blue-ribbon Knight Commission on the Information Needs of ...

Cisco Launches Broadband Game, Puts Everyman in Shoes of Telecom Execs

[Source: BroadbandCensus.com, by Winter Casey; November 2, 2009]

Getting Connected: The Role of Community Foundations in Broadband

This new four page guide is a an accessible entry point for funders to learn about the many opportunities to engage with the broadband stimulus, including case studies of how colleagues in the ...

What I Learned at Public Media Camp: Diversity and the Elusive Reality of Public Media 2.0

By Christian Ugbode, National Black Programming Consortium; October 25, 2009

Local Community Radio Act Advances in Congress

[Source: Prometheus Radio Project; October 15, 2009]Bill Moving Swiftly Toward Full House Vote

Finland: Broadband Access Made Legal Right In Landmark Law

[Source: CNN, by Saeed Ahmed; October 15, 2009]Finland has become the first country in the world to declare broadband Internet access a legal right. Starting in July, telecommunication companies ...

Nonprofit Software Development Summit 2009

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 9:00am - Friday, November 20, 2009 - 5:00pm

Oakland, CA

In Rural Africa, A Fertile Market for Mobile Phones

Laban Rutagumirwa charges his mobile phone with a car battery because his dirt-floor home deep in the remote, banana-covered hills of western Uganda does not have electricity.[Source: The New York ...

Web Survey Finds Speed Is Quickest Overseas

To try to come up with a more complete picture of where countries stand, the study's researchers created an overall index of “broadband leadership” including the performance scores and market ...

Dialing for Answers Where Web Can’t Reach

This story in The New York Times features an initiative by Jon Gosier, the guest speaker from GFEM's delegation dinner at the 2009 South by Southwest Interactive Festival. [Source: The New ...