Montana’s Great Falls Tribune has an article that examines a community success story from Cleveland and the greater NE Ohio region. Instead of going to...
The Department of Homeland Security has started funding a program to help all levels of government better understand open source options for computer software. DHS’...
Chattanooga’s Electric Power Board, a public power agency, has been building a fiber-to-the-home network to greatly increase community access to fast broadband. They have just...
ILSR, a member of the Rural Internet and Broadband Policy Group, submitted comments to the Federal Communications Commission on the matter of a national broadband...
We have added a new sector to the Information Policy Area – Open Source / Open Standards. The first rule in this new sector is...
On May 21, 2009, Vancouver passed an important resolution to encourage technological openness in the City. The city is committing to making more data available,...
ILSR announces a new site focusing on publicly owned broadband networks and the benefits they offer to the community. MuniNetworks.org explains the many advantages of...
Lafayette, Louisiana is one community among hundreds that are building publicly owned, broadband networks to ensure their community with thrive in the 21st century. They...
We just added a new rule to our database – Saint Paul, MN, is building a robust core network to meet its telecommunications needs (as...
Cory Doctorow, a strong proponent of network neutrality explains not just why we must preserve the Internet as it is, but also why we have...
Building the core network (a network that will first serve the public needs of the city, schools, state, and Ramsey county but could later be...
"Community Owned Networks Benefit Everyone," an article written by Christopher Mitchell to explain why community networks are the only means of spurring true competition in...
One of the key reforms pushed by the Obama Administration is to move away from paper medical health records to paperless, electronic systems. Electronic records...
Benoit Felten of FiberEvolution.com interviews Tim Nulty (former GM of Burlington Telecom, currently working on massive rural FTTH network in Vermont) at the Freedom to...
Who makes the rules for how you use your Internet Connection? Who decides whether it should upgrade the network speeds? For most of us, private...