FCC Approves Lifeline Expansion
In a major step toward closing the digital divide, the FCC voted yesterday to expand and modernize the Lifeline program to include subsidies for broadband access. Originally established to guarantee...
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Over the last ten years, millions of people came together to protect the open internet. This is their story.
View ArticleNet Neutrality Campaign Overview
Net neutrality is the principle that all communication on the internet must be treated equally. An implicit ‘First Amendment’ for the internet since the inception of the world wide web, everyone from...
View ArticleFocus: Building a Coalition
Building a coalition that’s strong enough and broad enough to achieve a major policy victory like net neutrality takes time, energy, and sustained investment in building effective collaborations. This...
View ArticleFocus: Outside -> Inside
Battles like net neutrality are only won when decision makers understand the real impact a policy will have on the lives of the people they serve. This video in MDF’s series about net neutrality tells...
View ArticleFocus: 4 Million Comments
The enormous wave of net neutrality comments that poured into the Federal Communications Commission represents one of the most extraordinary successes of the campaign. Over four million people took...
View ArticleJoin MDF at the Internet Freedom Festival
MDF encourages funders to participate in the 2017 Internet Freedom Festival. The largest and most diverse gathering of human rights technologists, digital security trainers, activists, communications...
View ArticleMDF is Hiring!
Media Democracy Fund (MDF) seeks a skilled manager and strategic thinker, who is passionate about solving internet freedom, digital, and human rights challenges with technology development. MDF’s...
View ArticlePhDX: Talent for the 21st Century
MDF is pleased to announce that our first PhDX fellows have begun work at their organizations for the Summer 2017 session. Imani Sherman (pictured left) is a Human-Centered Computing doctoral student...
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