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  • Internet saca del aislamiento y empodera a comunidades del Gran Chaco Americano

    December 11, 2024 |

    Revista Haz |

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    Response Location: Argentina

    Desde el 2013, el proyecto Nanum ha implementado un modelo que proporciona conectividad a través de 46 centros locales con acceso a Internet, empoderando a poblaciones indígenas, criollas y rurales. Marca un cambio significativo en la vida de más de 129 comunidades de Argentina, Paraguay y Bolivia, que hasta entonces permanecían aisladas.

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  • Millions in rural America lack reliable internet. How Massachusetts towns got online.

    November 19, 2024 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Otis, Massachusetts

    The town of Otis, Massachusetts leveraged state and federal grant funding alongside a municipal bond to build out its own fiber-optic network, increasing access to high-speed broadband in a rural area that has historically had little. Since it’s a municipal network, the town has more control over how it’s run, and prices are typically lower than those offered by private internet providers.

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  • How a Rural County in Texas Solved Its Broadband Problem

    May 02, 2024 |

    Governing |

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    Response Location: United States, Wise County, Texas

    A rural county in Texas brought broadband access to locals with the help of internet service provider Nextlink, the Citizens Broadband Radio Service and Tarana Wireless. Following a $2.6 million investment, over seven months, the partners built infrastructure that offers download speeds of 100 megabits per second and upload speeds of 20 megabits per second.

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  • Native nations with scarce internet are building their own broadband networks

    January 17, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Hopi Reservation, United States, Arizona

    In an effort to address a lack of broadband access, Indigenous communities are working together, and with local organizations, to acquire funding to bring internet access to their communities and close the digital divide.

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  • A free community library wants to reduce child street hawking and social vices in Ajegunle

    December 04, 2023 |

    Ikeja Record |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Ajegunle, Lagos

    The Transforming Lives and Communities Initiative converted an office space into a free library and resource center for local youth during the pandemic, providing them with internet access, books, games and other educational materials, including a Reading Clinic to teach local youth how to read. The Initiative continued and expanded from what started as a small venture with less than 10 participants, to over 1,000 registered users.

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  • New South Dallas tech hub at ICDC offers face-to-face help with digital connections

    October 27, 2023 |

    Dallas Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    At the first Connected Dallas anchor site, South Dallas residents can get access to high-speed internet, technology education from trained professionals, help applying for local and federal benefits, and more. Since opening in August 2023, the site has served 47 residents so far.

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  • Black churches play a key role in connecting communities to broadband internet

    October 06, 2023 |

    Religion News Service |

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    Response Location: United States, Mississippi

    Black Churches 4 Digital Equity partners with local congregations and clergy members to connect people with internet access helping them get signed up with the Affordable Connectivity Program, which provides discounted internet access and a one-time discount for laptop, desktop, or tablet purchases for those whose income is less than 200% of the federal poverty line. Through community outreach and events, local clergy have helped more than 230,000 households enroll in the program.

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  • In Dallas, a model "smart city" project bears fruit

    August 07, 2023 |

    Axios |

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    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    The Red Cloud smart city project is greatly improving local residents’ quality of life and leading to reduced crime rates in the city. The project installed new LED streetlights with AI-enabled overhead cameras, Wi-Fi access in homes that didn’t have access previously, as well as air quality monitoring devices. Since the new improvements were made, morale in the city has significantly improved and there are plans in place to scale the program and improve neighboring cities, as well.

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  • Mamacítas Cibernéticas seeks to close digital gaps in Sunland Park

    July 31, 2023 |

    Southern New Mexico Journalism Collaborative |

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    Response Location: United States, Sunland Park, New Mexico

    A group of women known as the Mamacítas Cibernéticas are conducting outreach in Sunland Park, New Mexico, to gauge the digital literacy needs of locals — particularly older Hispanic women. They’re using that information to lobby lawmakers for computer training programs to help bridge the digital divide.

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  • How Nigeria's $428 million ICT backbone project is enabling rural financial inclusion

    July 20, 2023 |

    Benjamindada.com |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    The Nigeria National Information and Communication Technology Infrastructure Backbone (NICTIB) Project is increasing rural financial inclusion and addressing the digital divide by funding projects that make it easier for telecommunications companies to expand their connectivity to rural communities, allowing locals to access digital banking services.

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