Give Every Voice a Fighting Chance, Become a Digital Inclusion Champion!

See Who Has Taken the Pledge for Digital Inclusion

Support full broadband access and adoption and defend an open Internet.

Across the Unites States, organizations based in, or working with, people of color, poor communities, and other marginalized groups, are raising their voices for rules that will defend an open Internet that is fast, affordable, and fair.

If you represent an organization that cares about economic opportunity for marginalized communities and small businesses, download the pledge (English) (Spanish) to become a Digital Inclusion Champion. Type in your organizational information, and click here to email it to CMJ.

Washington DC is Listening, Tell Your Internet Story

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) needs to hear why the Internet is important to you, how you use the Internet, and what barriers you face to broadband access. As big media pushes policymakers to fully privatize the Internet, and the FCC works against the clock to develop the first ever National Broadband Plan, they need to hear the voices of people of color and the poor.

Hispanic Groups Plunge Into Network Neutrality Debate

By Erick Galindo Hispanic Link News Service (January 10, 2010) Washington, D.C. – High-stakes political maneuvering is dragging Hispanic advocacy groups here deeper into battle over the future of the Internet. As the Federal Communications Commission moves ahead with plans to create a set of rules designed to block online monopolies from forming, supportive consumer [...]

Digital Justice Starts At Home

It is a profound personal and professional accomplishment to see my mother sign on to Gchat, email my brother in México, peruse Craigslist, and practice her English and typing skills. When she opened her laptop, she asked out loud, “and what am I going to do with this?” We all knew the answer: what couldn’t she do!

Captured by the Clueless

Cross-posted from Huffington Post. James Bell, Founder and Executive Director of the W. Haywood Burns Institute. Last week, the Bureau of Justice Statistics released a report that revealed about 12 percent of youths nationwide held in state-run, privately run or local facilities reported some type of sexual victimization including forced sexual activity with other youth [...]