Internet Society – San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
Internet Society – San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
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…
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.…
Over 35 people attended the Chapter’s recent event, “Blaming Technology” with acclaimed IP attorney Andrew Bridges. Hosted by Fenwick & West LLC in its San Francisco offices, Andrew and the audience debated topics including fake news and online moderation,…
At the end of the 2016, the SF-Bay Area Chapter learned that it had been successful in securing funding from the Internet Society’s Beyond the Net program for the “Bridging California’s Rural/Urban Digital Divide with Mobile Broadband” project. The Chapter…
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…