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Future of Music Coalition Comments in the FCC's Broadband Legal Framework Proceedings

[Source: Future of Music Coalition, July 15, 2010]
Musicians and other creators depend on open internet platforms and access to broadband technologyOn July 15, 2010 Future of Music Coalition filed comments (download below) in the FCC’s Notice of ...

Changing the World through Gaming – ICED as a Case Study

[Source: by Mallika Dutt, President & CEO, Breakthrough, July 15, 2010]
Video games will change the world.

Hacking the Policy Space

[Source: CultureWork, by Helen De Michiel]
I am sitting with a group of public media and community arts leaders at a recent lunch meeting hosted by Charles Benton, CEO of The Benton Foundation. We are here for the annual media reform ...

What DON'T You Need the Internet For?

[Source: NTEN: Nonprofit Technology Network, by Holly Ross, June 25, 2010]
This past April, how did you file your taxes? Did you mail them or e-File? How did you pay your last parking ticket? Find your last job? Watch a funny cat video? I'm betting the answer is the same ...

The Price of Broadband Politics

[Source: The New York Times, by Editorial, June 29, 2010]
One good measure of the intensity with which phone and cable companies dislike the Federal Communications Commission’s plan to extend its regulatory oversight over access to broadband Internet is ...

Highlights from 2010 Media Grantmaking — The State and Future of the Field

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The 2010 Funder Conversation: Media Grantmaking — The State (and Future) of the FieldPresented by: Grantmakers in Film + Electronic Media and the Media Democracy FundHosted by: The Open Society ...

The GFEM Media Database | Spotlight on LGBTQ COMMUNITIES

If your foundation supports LGBTQ issues, you won’t want to miss these and other projects in the GFEM Media Database at media.gfem.org.Breaking Free

ACT UP Oral History Project

The ACT UP Oral History Project is a collection of interviews with surviving members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, New York.  The project is coordinated by Jim Hubbard and Sarah ...

FCC Looks for Valley Support of Broadband Plan

[Source: Silicon Valley Mercury News, by Mike Swift, June 11, 2010]
Commissioner Copps urges Silicon Valley support for broadband reclassification.

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