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As a cooperative broadband service provider, United Fiber is demonstrating how much they truly care about their community by deploying Bark social media monitoring.📱 With this tool, United Fiber is enabling their cooperative members (as well as their own employees) to keep kids safer from digital dangers. Thanks to their investment in the Calix platform and Calix “Smart Start” program, United Fiber executed this launch in less than two months. “The introduction of Bark to our members and subscribers is a pivotal contribution to our impact on the community,” said Jim Bagley, chief executive officer at United Fiber. “This isn’t about financial gain; it’s about making a meaningful difference in our communities.” United Fiber expects to grow 50 percent in the next 18 months, which will deepen the impact of Bark. What do you think about leading with community values and making a difference? Share your thoughts below👇 🔗https://ow.ly/PSoP30syskW #ManagedServices #OnlineSafety #CustomerSuccess

Hi, 🙋♀️🌻 With the release of the Broadcasting Bill, 2023, now the draft Telecom Bill, 2023 and the rumoured upcoming DPDPA Rules, the fight for our digital rights is at a critical juncture.   ✊✊ We need YOUR support now more than ever. 🔻🔻🔻There is a massive gap of over INR 23,00,000 in our income and expenditure between Jan 2023 and Nov 2023.  We need your 🫵 help to bridge this gap before the year ends.  📢📢 This big gap puts us in a tough position as more enormous challenges mount against our digital liberties; with declining civic space and fundraising avenues, our operational costs continue eating into our organisational savings. We have been a people's movement since Day 0.  Individual donors like you have consistently supported us through our victories and losses. We are reaching out to YOU again. Help us bridge this gap and sustain the work we do.  https://lnkd.in/dPi23ieS

🎸Are you ready to jam at Fiber Connect next month in Nashville? We’re eager to head back to the show and hear from you about what’s trending in the world of fiber deployment since last summer. 🗓️ Last year three of our key takeaways were: 1️⃣ BEAD is Coming: Effective project financial management and stakeholder coordination remain critical as operators and contractors prepare for state grant applications and disbursements. 2️⃣ Regulatory Challenges: Permitting and locating issues are leading causes of project delays, necessitating improved relationships with local entities and better planning. 3️⃣ Collaborative Efforts: Real-time collaboration between operators and contractors enhances visibility and accuracy in deployment projects. 🤓 For more details, you can read our recap here: https://hubs.ly/Q02DzNG_0 👋 Drop by booth #681 to learn more about how we’re helping industry leaders with their fiber deployments. Want a code for a discounted pass? Let us know in the comments! #fiberconnect #BEADfunding #deploywhatsnext

This is an infrastructure vulnerability that producers, distributors and consumers of electronic media should be aware of and concerned about. We are adding "baseload" to the grid while reducing baseload capacity. I have been saying this for years, with the concern well stated here "Is America Running Out of Power?:

The U.S. government continues to fund nationwide broadband rollouts to ensure high-speed access reaches all communities. These grants are catalysts for growth in the communications industry and hence the recipients must meet stringent requirements to qualify. Broadband grants necessitate decade-long commitments to delivery and performance standards set by programs like the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) and Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD). In this report by Cyient, it lays out four key activities a partner is best positioned to provide, which must be performed continuously for the long term to sustain grant funding. Read here: https://lnkd.in/gmgUr2HK Still have questions? We will be happy to address them at Fiber Connect 2024 - Booth #184 at Gaylord Opryland in Nashville, TN. #BroadbandExpansion #DigitalInclusion #CommunicationsIndustry #GrantFunding #FiberConnect2024 #DesigningTomorrowTogether #Cyient

ATTENTION GOVERNMENTS & NON-PROFITS: The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program is a federal program with a goal of connecting unserved and underserved locations to broadband service. Indiana received an allocation of $868 million to connect as many Hoosiers as possible. We encourage governments and non-profits who serve individuals who lack internet services in Noble County to attend an upcoming webinar to learn more about how to submit challenges to correct the FCC map. Access the webinar on Thursday, February 8 from 3-4 PM at https://lnkd.in/ge5b7Ehy The BEAD program uses the FCC National Broadband Map (here: https://lnkd.in/g7JKfa6q) to determine these levels of service. The Indiana Broadband Office is starting its Challenge Process to correct these locations. Say an individual's home is identified as "served" on the FCC map, but that location is in fact not able to get service at all - this would be the way to correct the map and, therefore, increase the likelihood of getting services to that location. #communityinvestment Internet Service Providers (ISPs) like LigTel Communications, governments, and non-profit organizations are the only ones who can submit corrections to the FCC map. Learn more about the challenge process here: https://lnkd.in/gRTN47Q6

RESEAT,Inc. We're a lot more than just a marketplace! Here's a little demo of how our enterprise customers can manage their furniture inventories with the ability to intuitively move, donate, sell, renew, reorder their furniture-all while keeping track of their carbon footprint! This particular example is showing how to utilize the sell function. https://lnkd.in/gqHuR2Wn #circulareconomy #circulardesign #circularfurniture #sustainablefurniture #sustainability #sustainableoffice #circularmarketplace #reseat #reseatit

Crowdfunder is celebrating our top 100 crowdfunders from the last 12 months - what a list! In amongst all the tough stuff of life, let me encourage you to spend a while scrolling through our collection to find example after example of people helping people, and corporate funders matching what is raised. It's a tonic! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/100 Favourite? You can't really pick one but if you had to, for me it would be 'Every Street a Power Station' run by Foundation for Future London. Have a look at their page here https://lnkd.in/eY7xbYV9. It's a really good example of the kind of idea that could just change the world: Imagine if every street was a people-powered POWER STATION? tackling climate and economic crises and building community resilience and wealth. This project is well thought out, well planned and brilliantly communicated...all really good 'ingredients' for a successful crowdfunder - backed up by the commitment of the aptly named Optimistic Foundation CIC. They raised £80k from over 700 supporters so I'm not the only one who 'got it' and icing on the cake was a £20k match fund from our partner Aviva through #TheAvivaCommunityFund - backing the clever ideas that move communities forward. The project is still accepting donations though the rewards-based phase is now complete. Altogether a win-win-win #Crowdfunder100 If you have a similarly good idea and think you it's the kind of thing that should appeal to the crowd, have a look at crowdfunder.co.uk and if you have a corporate #CSR fund with which you'd like to better support brilliant ideas that come from communities up and down the country, drop me a line.

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