The 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…
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…
Agriculture At High-Speed When farms are connected to the Internet, we all benefit. Agriculture that gains real-time information about plants, soil, atmosphere, and irrigation, dubbed “precision agriculture”, can save farmers 20-30% of their water consumption while increasing productivity by…