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OTI and EveryoneOnWorking Together to Evaluate the Impact of Broadband Inclusion EffortsPOLICY PAPER
By Georgia Bullen and Greta Byrum
Feb. 9, 2016
https://www.newamerica.org/oti/policy-papers/oti-and-everyoneon/newamerica.org
This toolkit is designed to provide a resource for any organization offering digital services.
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We are working on a plan to approach libraries here in Michigan. Stay tuned for more updates soon.
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A simple thing to promote that non-technical people should understand would be to follow the recommendation about requiring that systems on the Internet interoperate. My sister, who is a lawyer, uses an iPhone, and my phone is Android. I end up missing some very important messages from her as a result.
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Link Oregon is a membership-based, non-profit technology consortium serving Oregon public and non-profit organizations
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Complete this form to join our (Merit) December 20th mapping working group meeting, where we will discuss all necessary information there. Don’t delay; learn how to support your community to “Test your speed for BEAD” as this is the last chance we will get to impact BEAD eligibility.
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Ron Suarez (You) 12:25 PM
Ryan Johnston: Are communities listed on the Next Century Cities website supposed to make connectivity affordable? Ann Arbor is listed on the website. When I asked about the cost to connect to a backhaul, I was told: It is $105,000.00 one-time fee per pair. (one time entry fee) $10,500 annually per pair
Ron, you can view the principles that our members agree to when they sign up for membership at https://nextcenturycities.org/join-our-movement/#advocating-for-good-connectivity-policy
Communities who join us are working towards universal, high-speed, affordable broadband for their residents, but we do not prescribe how they are to achieve that. We also don’t have Industry funders or members, and so we don’t have the resources or connections to help our members negotiate prices for connections with providers.
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I want to introduce you to my prospective partner in Montana. He is running a nonprofit using Althea technology to provide the school system and surrounding residence with both Internet and telephone. He is an excellent example of how an alternative can get started and should receive funding. I have begun to create a course that I have called get funding workshop. I’d like to have all of us interact and put the results into that workshop, which I have scheduled to launch in January.
First, here is what I put into the course description, which served as a prompt for AI to generate the names of five lessons.
A group exploration of government and private funding, from identifying sources to have a stake in a product, project, or idea, all on one map. You can also document their roles and your relationship with them.
Here are the five AI generated lesson names:
Course Content
Understanding the Landscape: Mapping Government and Private Funding Sources
Identifying Opportunities: Researching and Evaluating Potential Funding Sources
Building Relationships: Nurturing Connections with Government and Private Funders
Crafting Your Pitch: Presenting Your Product, Project, or Idea to Funding Stakeholders
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I would love to work with Public Knowledge, and Gigi Sohn’s new organization, American Association for Public Broadband.
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There are lots of videos for how you monetize a custom GPT:
https://youtu.be/Bjgacpb2ycQ?si=xYI0frW3QEyORymJ
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@bruce-kushnick yes, since the book was in PDF format, I was able to easily upload it into ChatGPT. We can upload additional work to build our own language model. I am curious about the discrepancy between what you have written about and what TPI has written.
It would likely take a while for us to be able to monetize this.
There is another video, that will be embedded in the reply to this reply
https://youtu.be/2txql6RUSbk?si=vxQV3s6FVWdwv6EH
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@bruce-kushnick Ron has copied this from Bruce’s email to better utilize our website and keep the discussion in one place.
Bruce replied:
yeah — pictures worked — So, let me get this straight — the stuff took the DISS-CONNECTED book contents and generated the answers???
and they are d9ametirally opposed to TPI stuff using CHAT —
Is this dreaming? not sure how we make money from it — but —
Ok, the interface to add docs to out library, or to create a specific state of FCC filing, etc —
As i know where everything is —
Time to talk wednesday or thurs? I have some appts I’m waiting on – but —
What do you think of it All? im kind of shocked at the tests so far — it isn’t simply our stuff — but the comparison with TPI — right?
We can have it rip into the other analyses– including the 5 year plans
But, we need to monetize this — as well as use it for PR —
ie, comparing the book’s analyses — (with the 5 year plans created — but then having it summ up the stuff — if that was possible —
so, it seems easy to use — and i’ve been playing with the Bing AI stuff –
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2012: We taught a class in how to build an HDTV OTA antenna with recycled coat hangers, scrap wood and $3 in electrical parts. Watch the interns at the Red Hook Initiative in Brooklyn. These are the same kids who the New America Foundation is teaching how to maintain a mesh network, that got used very effectively to support communications when the power went out in Red Hook during Hurricane Sandy. Plus, the software we built for Occupy, the year before, helped connect recovery efforts, in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. The Open Technology Institute (OTI) is the technology program of the New America Foundation.
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