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Financing the Cooperative Startup
Let’s take another approach at financing other than looking just for government subsidies and handouts with respect to addressing community aspirations. Hopefully we’re all familiar with service clubs...
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Community Cooperacy
Four Cs now supercede the three Rs. It is no longer about just the three Rs: Reading, wRiting, and aRithmetic. Our future now depends on the four Cs: Community, Content, Connectivity, and...
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What’s Public Broadband?
Something that I’ve taken for granted all my life is the word “public”. Sure, I’m familiar with public sidewalks, public roads, public libraries, public schools, public hospitals, public utilities and...
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Cooperatives Bridge More than the Digital Divide!
Bridging the digital divide has undoubtedly huge implications on realizing and resolving local economic and community empowerment concerns. There are many initiatives worldwide using a co-operative...
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Finding Community Broadband Funding
Funding forms come in three flavors: a self-sustaining business case, public and/or private subsidization, or a combination of the two. The preferred solution is a self-sustaining solution. So many...
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Cooperacy through Community Stakeholders and Shareholders
Cooperacy is defined as the four C’s: Community, Content, Connectivity, and Cooperation. Community Development Cooperatives, CDCs, represent demographic areas which may be rural and remote...
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Think In-a-Box; Think about-a-Box: Think!
When is thinking in-a-box a good thing when we should be thinking out of the box to resolve community broadband issues. I’ve thought outside of the box so long I don’t know where it is anymore and...
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Community Broadband Funding Secret
Here is a secret: community broadband, and bundled entertainment, can be had for a fraction of the cost of television programs and channels that you pay for and don’t watch. A few months ago I looked...
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Highwaymen of Today
We have a new breed of highwaymen, informational highwaymen, not only laying in wait for you to travel the information highway, the Internet, but now enticing you with e-mail, websites, ads, and...
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Monetizing Broadband through Cooperacy
Monetize means to convert something to money and this can be achieved quite simply by selling something. Another way might be to take a tool or service that you have and use it in different ways to...
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