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Closing the Digital Divide for Low-Income Communities

September 5, 2019

Greenlining is helping communities of color and families from low-income backgrounds connect to economic opportunity. We’re proud of what we’ve been able to achieve this year. A prosperous and connected California requires a commitment to making sure that every child…

Will Smart Cities Perpetuate the Digital Divide, or Solve It?

August 6, 2019

One of my favorite films is Spike Jonze’s 2013 American science fiction ‘Her,’ set in a futuristic Los Angeles that resembles today’s skyscraper-filled Shanghai. In the film, technology pervades everyone’s lives and people are constantly connected to the digital world.…

FCC Net Neutrality Decision a Win for Communities of Color

February 26, 2015

New Rules Will Stop “Digital Redlining” Contact: Bruce Mirken, Greenlining Institute Media Relations Director, 510-926-4022; 415-846-7758 (cell) WASHINGTON – The Greenlining Institute applauded today’s decision by the Federal Communications Commission to adopt strong net neutrality protections, and particularly the commission’s decision…

Greenlining to Oppose Proposed CPUC Decision on Comcast/Time Warner Cable Deal

February 25, 2015

Meeting to Consider Proposal Today at 2 p.m. Contact: Bruce Mirken, Greenlining Institute Media Relations Director, 415-846-7758 (cell) Stephanie Chen, Greenlining Institute Energy and Telecommunications Policy Director, 415-706-2436 (cell) SAN FRANCISCO – This afternoon, representatives of The Greenlining Institute will speak…

Comcast : Greenlining Tells FCC: Don’t Force Low-Income Consumers to the ‘Back of the Digital Bus’

October 22, 2014

4-Traders The Greenlining Institute recently filed its formal reply urging the Federal Communications Commission to reject proposals from telecommunications providers suggesting that, the FCC issue watered-down (or no) rules regarding net neutrality. Such proposals, Greenlining argued, could force low income…

Riding the Back of the Digital Bus

September 17, 2014

The Huffington Post by Preeti Vissa Major telecommunications firms (think Comcast, Verizon, AT&T and the like) want to be able to send you to an Internet slow lane if you don’t have enough money pay for topflight service — or…

Oakland’s Sudo Mesh Looks to Counter Censorship and Digital Divide With a Mesh Network

July 21, 2014

TechPresident by Ben Valentine In Oakland, a city with deep roots in radical activism and a growing tech scene at odds with the hyper-capital-driven Silicon Valley, those at the Sudo Room hackerspace believe that the solution to a wide range…

Greenlining to FCC: Stop the New Redlining, Protect Net Neutrality

July 18, 2014

Contact: Bruce Mirken, Greenlining Institute Media Relations Director, 415-846-7758 (cell) WASHINGTON – In formal comments filed today with the Federal Communications Commission, The Greenlining Institute and six other groups urged the FCC to stop the “new redlining” and protect network neutrality by reclassifying broadband…

Greenlining’s Comments to the Federal Communications Commission on Net Neutrality

July 18, 2014

Greenlining, joined by six other groups, urged the FCC to prevent a potential new form of redlining by protecting the open Internet and reclassifying broadband Internet service as a Title II telecommunications service in order to protect consumers. To read…

The Digital Divide Isn’t Racial – It’s Economic

January 8, 2014

New study finds there’s no difference in Internet usage between the two racial groups at the same income levels The Daily Dot by Aaron Sankin For as long as there’s been digital technology, there’s a been a ‟digital divide” between…

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