The Meaning of Community
Discover the different structures of community Internet compared to traditional ISPs, from municipal broadband to member-owned cooperatives. Learn how…
Category: Coop
Better Broadband is a key to Counter Housing Inflation
Leveraging open access fiber innerduct conduit to promote competition among ISPs can significantly help break up geographic monopolies, lower the cost…
Collaborating with Electrical Co-ops to promote Digital Equity
What are things to say to an existing electrical co-op that would encourage them to employ Althea technologies to offer broadband connectivity to thei…
CommunityInter.net is a Platform Cooperative
Our ultimate goal is to work with community stakeholders to build and own their Internet infrastructures.People who become teachers own and govern our…
CBPP commons based peer production
We asked: How does Commons-based peer production relate to the possibility of community owned Internet networks (COIN)? In particular, consider how Althea.net enables what Yochai…
Co-Ops Can Look to Counties for BEAD Match Requirement
Darren Farnan, chief operating officer of rural electric co-op United Fiber, said counties can help co-ops with the matching piece required by the BEAD program…
Our Groups are integrated with Zoom
Connect with Ron if you would like to better understand how to use Zoom with your Group and how we will deal with the eventual…
What can we learn from the Cooperative Utopia Fiber?
Too many legislators seem to think that we do not have choices other than the incumbent ISP. Because of this, we do have many concerns that the bulk o…
We created a new group “Funding Cooperatives”
Are you an organizer and a self-starter? Please join our new group Funding Cooperatives. We’re putting our heads together to collaborate on the formation of…
Software Worker Owned Coop startup to $3.1 million exit sale
Small Systems Guild – a Software Worker Owned Coop in the 1980’s & an example of financing a startup with sweat equity. We Wanted to be…