Internet Society – San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
Internet Society – San Francisco Bay Area ChapterThe Silicon Valley AgTech Conference takes place on May 3, 2018, in Mountain View, CA. The SF Bay Area ISOC Chapter’s Project Team will be presenting the final report from our “Bridging California’s Rural/Urban Digital Divide with Mobile Broadband” project and…
Brandie M. Nonnecke is the Working Group Chair for the SF-Bay ISOC’s Working Group on Internet Governance. She is a postdoc at CITRIS and the Banatao Institute at UC Berkeley. Here she writes an opinion post on the risks of lowering the barriers…
Leah Symekher, Project Leader and Advisor to the Board, and Susannah Gray, Chapter President & Chair, spent two days in Sacramento, California, in August to meet with farmers, AgTech and rural infrastructure experts and the “Bridging California’s Rural/Urban Digital…
Too often, people consider themselves passive consumers of the Internet. The apps and websites we visit are made by people with technical expertise using languages we don’t understand. It’s hard to know how to plug in, even if you…
Recently, California farmer Craig Thompson got a pretty nifty upgrade for his irrigation: a broadband-connected Hydrawise control system that would automatically manage and monitor the irrigation of his olive and grape fields and collect data to alert him if…
Fatema Kothari is the Vice President for San Francisco Bay Area ISOC organization. Here she writes about a recent industry event she spoke at, emphasizing the need to build people-centric connectivity solutions. Last week, I had the…
With six months of research completed, the Rural Broadband Project team has produced a semi annual report. You can also take a look at the preliminary findings and the average broadband speeds that the team measured. Find out more.…
And the winner is… Deema Tamimi had one plan for the 2016 California Apps for Ag hackathon: get in and get out. She thought the weekend-long event would be a good opportunity to meet people, but she didn’t feel…