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A new report offers guidance for community organizations and those who fund social change in how best to harness the power of local media-making for community health improvement.

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Broadband infrastructure is an essential and basic component of today’s global economy. Yet, with only 61% of U.S. households currently connected to a high-speed network, significant parts of the population – especially low-income, minority, immigrant, non-English speaking, rural, senior and disabled communities – cannot fully participate in this digital revolution due to lack of service by private telecom providers, lack of economic resources to pay for access and equipment, and/or lack of education about the relevance of technology in their lives.

Community WiFi is an emerging concept and best practices for deployment and related programming are still being developed. Read the report to learn how sharing key lessons will add to the collective knowledge base and help increase the probability of success of future deployments.

Considered an effort to weaken Affirmative Action, Proposition 54 became a ballot initiative in 2003.
“We had to fight Prop 54,” says CTFC Board member Anni Chung, “because without the data, how do you know which community suffers the most?

“The issue was so central to our work and that of our grantees,” says CTFC Board Chairman Jacquelyn Brand. “Being unable to gather data, to just be ignorant about information, would be a terrible threat to our effectiveness.”