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Broadband Institute General Fund

We create and curate Creative Commons, educational materials to address the Digital Divide by teaching community members to cooperatively own and run their Broadband Internet infrastructure.

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WE'RE CREATING DIY ISP JOB TRAINING Read more

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We filed our Articles of Incorporation with Michigan

February 2, 2022, Ann Arbor, Michigan Broadband Institute Foundation ·...
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Published on March 24, 2022 by Ronald R Suarez

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BROADBAND INSTITUTE FOUNDATION
a P2P COMMUNITY LEARNING PLATFORM COOPERATIVE

Teach and/or learn the three keys to success in our platform cooperative
  1. Community Owned Broadband Infrastructure
  2. Democratic Self Governance - using Loomio
  3. Transparent Financial Management - using OpenCollective

OUR COURSES

Built with LearnDash and licensed with Creative Commons
  • Learn about Internet network engineering
  • Learn to build a Community Owned Internet Network
  • Get a job and create jobs in your community
  • Keep money circulating in your local community
  • Increase Civic engagement
  • Turn group decisions into contracts
  • Use shared open ledgers for finance

END THE DIGITAL DIVIDE BY SOLVING THE LAST MILE PROBLEM

Find out how a cooperative community can create a DIY ISP.

We will teach people how to replicate what Althea (engineering) is doing with NetEquity (finance) and OPTK (middle mile fiber) in Nebraska.

We are emulating the philosophy of Mohuman.