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.

Time for Higher Education To Step Up on National Broadband Strategy

Given the historic opportunity, it is high time for higher education to become actively and constructively engaged in the national broadband policy making effort. [Source: Bytes from Lev blog, by ...

The Open Zones of CommonWealth: A Review of NAMAC's 2009 Conference

These meditations on the biannual conference of the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture, were originally posted on the blog of the Finger Lakes Enviromental Film Festival.

Opportunities for Grantees’ Voices in Formulating National Broadband Plan: What Funders Can Do

For the first time, the U.S. government is developing a national broadband plan to foster robust and affordable Internet access for all Americans – in a similar way that a comprehensive plan was ...

2,200 Broadband Stimulus Applications Seek Seven Times More Funds Than Available

[By Drew Clark, BroadbandCensus.com; August 27, 2009]Nearly 2,200 applications were submitted for funding from the federal government’s broadband stimulus program, seeking $27.6 billion in ...

Rural broadband = More jobs, better salaries

A new USDA report shows that rural counties that get on the broadband bandwagon see more and better-paying jobs. But high-speed Internet penetration in the countryside still lags behind cities by ...

Community Media Sustainability Guide: The Business of Changing Lives

[Source: The Communications Initiative Network: Soul Beat Africa] Summary

OneWebDay 2009

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Multiple Cities/Global

Mobile Giving is Catching On

Nonprofits are beginning to receive donations from mobile campaigns that use tech messages aimed at a younger audience. Reaching younger donors fits into an emerging trend in philanthropy: While ...

Broadband Stimulus Grant Guidelines Announced ($4 Billion)

[Source: Speed Matters, July 6, 2009] The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) released the rules for disbursement of the ...

Biden Announces $4 Billion in Broadband Stimulus Loans and Grants to Increase Access and Adoption

[Source: The Benton Foundation; July 1, 2009]