{"id":527335,"date":"2010-04-14T12:18:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T16:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blandinonbroadband.org\/?p=3287"},"modified":"2010-04-14T12:18:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T16:18:15","slug":"foundations%e2%80%99-view-on-broadband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/527335","title":{"rendered":"Foundations\u2019 view on broadband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blandinfoundation.org\/contact\/staff-directory-detail.php?intResourceID=198\">Blandin Foundation President Jim Hoolihan <\/a>for pointing me to an essay in the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/philanthropy.com\/article\/Why-Foundations-of-All-Kinds\/64902\/\">Chronicle of Philanthropy by Luis Ubinas<\/a>, Jim&#8217;s counterpart at Ford Foundation. Ford is committing $50-million over the next five years to help ensure that broadband access to the Internet becomes a reality for all citizens and that public-interest values in the online space itself are protected. Ubinas writes, &#8220;The effort to ensure universal access to high-speed Internet among all citizens is a critical next step to ensuring that America realizes its great aaspiration of equal opportunity for all.&#8221; He calls for a broad consensus of government and private partners &#8220;willing to stand up for the public good.&#8221; I especially like his description of the Internet as a &#8220;gateway to democratic participation, economic opportunity, and human expression.&#8221; He even calls universal acess to an open Internet &#8220;critical to the future of our country.&#8221; The good news for all of us who agree, is that Ford&#8217;s investment will help bring attention to this message. With the help of our 19 partners and American Recovery and Reinvestment Act dollars, Blandin Foundation is humbled by the opportunity to join Ford Foundation in this important work.<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3287\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3287\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3287\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3287\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3287\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3287\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3287\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3287\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3287\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3287\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blandinonbroadband.org&#038;blog=785113&#038;post=3287&#038;subd=blandinonbroadband&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Blandin Foundation President Jim Hoolihan for pointing me to an essay in the recent Chronicle of Philanthropy by Luis Ubinas, Jim&#8217;s counterpart at Ford Foundation. Ford is committing $50-million over the next five years to help ensure that broadband access to the Internet becomes a reality for all citizens and that public-interest values [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}