As a not-for-profit #communityisp, NCF cannot be sold. We seek affordability, not profits. But we face many of the same pressures as commercial independent ISPs. We also need the same remedy: lower wholesale rates and fast access to FTTP services. 2/3
💬Where there's an actual human absolute right to shape how you look digitally or how you connect with other people, I think would lead us to a more equitable future.👏
John & @CanadaPIAC are #digitalequity champions helping NCF celebrate 30 years as a #communityisp
"...the right to reconfigure your tools, the right to use software that other people have written with the hardware that you own and the services that you use."👏
@doctorow is a #digitalequity champion helping NCF celebrate 30 years as a #communityisp
"If we think we can solve a problem in technology, we’re looking at it wrong... we can’t solve issues that have to do we power and that have to do with control, within a technology"
@biancawylie is a #digitalequity champion helping NCF celebrate 30 years as a #communityisp
"A #splinternet is a state opposite of the internet. If you can picture the🌎internet that we all love & appreciate today fragmenting into a series of islands that can't speak to each other"
@ndunleavy is a #digitalequity champion helping NCF celebrate 30 yrs as a #communityisp
"In the next 30yrs we're going to treat the internet as a necessity but don't take it for granted...We have to keep it strong, we have to keep it affordable, we have to keep it equitable"
@tm_kavanagh is a #digitalequity champion helping NCF celebrate 30 years as a #communityisp
"...People need to understand the power and accountability that sits behind #nonprofits; by its very structure it is there for the benefit of all."
Ken Sanderson is a #digitalequity champion helping NCF celebrate 30 years as a #communityisp 3/3
Rhea Doolan is a #digitalequity champion helping NCF celebrate 30 years as a #communityisp.
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“ The internet became more essential during Covid but it also became more challenging to afford it” - Andrew - NCF Business and Community Development Manager 3/4 #DigitalEquity#CommunityConnectivity#CommunityISP