Internet Society – San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
Internet Society – San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
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…
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…
Trish Kelly (Valley Vision), a member of the SF-Bay Area Chapter’s Rural Broadband project team, talked about the project during the NTIA’s webinar on How Broadband is Transforming Agriculture. You can find the audio recording here and the session transcripts…
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.…
Do you think Internet should be a public commons rather than a corporate monopoly? The folks behind People’s Open, a community-run wireless mesh network in Oakland, will host a workshop on how the internet works and how to build…
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…
California was recently reminded that rain can be very dangerous. In February, the nation’s tallest dam, the Oroville dam in northern California, became so overloaded with rain that over a 100,000 people had to evacuate their homes. Many…
This excellent Washington Post article, “Disconnected”, highlights the importance of the Internet for today’s young people, the ‘most digitally defined generation in human history‘, and how their lives are impacted when they are unable to afford access. “The Pew…
On August 10, 2016, the NTIA has published a report on the state of the urban/rural digital divide: “While 75 percent of Americans reported using the Internet in July 2015, the longstanding disparity between urban and rural users persists…
