20 sec Member Owned Marketplace intro
Meetingplace
Facebook-like features without the Nazis | Commons Based Peer Production
Learningplace
Students can become teachers who govern our platform cooperative.
Marketplace
Exchange products and services in our member owned marketplace.
Help us prevent “Enshittification” of our platform
“Cory Doctorow advocates for two ways to reduce enshittification: upholding the end-to–end principle, which asserts that platforms should transmit data in response to user requests rather than algorithm-driven decisions; and guaranteeing the right of exit—that is, enabling a user to leave a platform without data loss, which requires interoperability. These moves aim to uphold the standards and trustworthiness of online platforms, emphasize user satisfaction, and encourage market competition.”
We already have built in support for the right of exit. Anyone can leave our platform and export all of their data to take with them. You can help us to make decisions about our directions by submitting user requests via our contact form.
We added a new profile field
Please edit your profile (in the upper right drop down menu) and check all of the relevant boxes you support.
We are working on making it easier for people to find each other in order to collaborate on solutions that promote a better Internet for all. The more content you add to additional fields in your profile for you as an individual and your organization, the more likely it is that people will find you and seek to connect, in order to work together and collaborate to promote better Internet for all.
Member Communication with Messages
Sign up and sign in to see left panel menu | Web or email horizontal communication without revealing your email address | Block bothersome members
Elastic Search
You now can search the contents of our uploaded documents in addition to website content. To recommend content for us to include just contact us.
Broadband Institute Foundation, dba “Community Internet” is a an educational nonprofit.
Qualified tax deductible bequests, devises, transfers or gifts.
Featured Posts
How to empower Community Internet
Discover long-term strategies for affordable internet access in communities, including municipal broadband networks and innovative deployment models. #InternetAffordability #CommunityBroadband
The Meaning of Community
Discover the different structures of community Internet compared to traditional ISPs, from municipal broadband to member-owned cooperatives. Learn how community-driven networks prioritize local needs over profit-driven incumbents.
Community Management as a Service (CMaaS) Roadmap
Federal subsidies, eg ACP, are Band-Aids that expire, but local solutions are growing! Our plan for Community Owned Internet Networks, COIN, encompasses strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, and the use of digital tools to streamline processes from inception to operation.
CommunityInter.net is a Platform Cooperative
Our ultimate goal is to work with community stakeholders to build and own their Internet infrastructures.People who become teachers own and govern our platform.
We enable Commons Based Peer Production
Vision
Restore the Internet as a Public Commons to connect us like the sidewalk, fostering innovation, regenerative economic growth, and digital inclusion for a connected sustainable future.
Connect
Use member profiles. Introduce yourself without your email. Block bothersome members. Build a network of connections as a function of skills you are offering and skills you seek. JOIN
Teach & Own
Explore our Groups and Courses. Become a group leader or teacher. Our “Exit to Community” strategy recruits leaders and teachers to run and own our Platform Cooperative.
Create
Collaborate with others: write grant proposals, form new groups and/or author courses. Share Community templates. Participate in platform governance and revenue.
Organize Groups
Propose private, public or hidden groups & courses to grow your network with discussion forums, shared documents, wiki-like docs, instant messages, & video conferencing.
We asked our AI Assistant
How does Commons-based peer production relate to the possibility of community owned Internet networks (COIN)? In particular, consider how althea.net enables what Yochai Benkler refers to as converting consumers into prosumers, with Blockchain software on the router that enables people to purchase bandwidth from upstream and sell bandwidth to people downstream.
The answer explains the benefits of a new regenerative economy replacing the older extractive model of the incumbent ISPs.
We are the Broadband Institute Foundation: