Broadband Internet

The Organic Internet: Organizing History's Largest Social Movment (free book)

Submitted by cima on Mon, 2008-06-02 10:32.

What exactly is the Internet and what role does it play in our movement for social change? Check out this collection of must-read essays from the techie-organizers of MayFirst/PeopleLink.

Test Your Broadband Speed

Submitted by cima on Mon, 2008-06-02 09:39.

This online internet-speed test is part of a campaign for affordable high-speed internet access for all, by the Communication Workers of America (CWA).

The Philadelphia Story: Learning from a Municipal Wireless Pioneer

Submitted by Elsa on Mon, 2008-02-04 02:44.

This report examines how Philadelphia's municipal wireless initiative helped shape the national debate regarding the need for public broadband infrastructure and the impact the project's successes and failures had on the local community.

The Case For Universal Broadband in America: Now!

Submitted by Elsa on Sat, 2007-12-01 21:56.

The Case for Universal Broadband in America: Now! finds that wide swaths of America have no broadband at all, or only "fraudband" that is so slow, unreliable, expensive and/or consumer-unfriendly that it cannot bring Americans the benefits of universal broadband that President Bush cited back in 2004.
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