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Let’s Connect Together

Join us in disrupting extractive ISP monopolies.
Learn to launch a Community Owned Internet Network (COIN).
Create a regenerative local circular economy.

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Making a Difference

Our Value Proposition

Do workforce development, decrease Capex and lower Opex for your community’s local Internet infrastructure. Ensure digital equity by engaging Local Internet Minority Enterprises.

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Transforming Connectivity

Empower Your Community with Broadband

Join the movement

Help us disrupt the ISP monopoly and work with members of your community to bring equitable internet access to all.

Social learning groups

Join our members and contribute to the development of Community Owned Internet Networks.

Detroit in 2017

Imagine what you can do!

2017 in Detroit, Equitable Internet Initiative

Decentralize Your Network

NYCmesh, a decentralized network

Volunteer organization

NYCmesh operates without paid staff and users will not be disconnected if they do not donate.

Funding alternatives

Join us to learn how your network users can buy bandwidth from upstream mesh members and sell it to members downstream. Yochai Benkler at Harvard call this Commons Based Peer Production.

NYC in 2021

Community built network!

Daniel Heredia and NYCmesh

Decentralize Your Network

Digital C is a nonprofit in Cleveland, OH

nonprofit organization

DigitalC is a minority managed non-profit focused on improving Greater Cleveland’s digital literacy and providing residents with an affordable ($18/mo), high-speed Internet.

Workshops

See Actor Mapping visual tools we use in workshops with your community stakeholders who want to emulate DigitalC.

Cleveland in 2024

Nonprofits & Gov Collaborating!

Create Choices

Getting Knowledge is the first step

nonprofit organization

We are an educational 501(c)(3) nonprofit offering training and Community engagement tools to put you in control.

Workshops

Contact us at our Internet Public Commons Platform Cooperative to setup a workshop for your Community Stakeholders to ask questions.

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Start Planning Your Network Now

Wondering what’s best for your community?

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Draft a memorandum of understanding to receive a monthly price for your community.

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Your community in 2024

Get your Stakeholders Collaborating!

Testimonials About Our Founder

consistently ahead of the curve

While others are still realizing that a disruptive technology has changed their business, Ron has already figured out what’s next and is working hard to be in on the ground floor. He is passionate about what is going on now and what is coming up when most people are still trying to deal with what happened.

George Hoteling

Software Developer

A visionary

I’ve known Ron for 15 years. He’s a determined and visionary technologist, always ahead of the business curve. His expertise spans research and development, consulting, custom product development, and all kinds of entrepreneurship. Providing legal support to his business concerns constantly challenges me and rewards me with new paradigms. He is an intelligent and informed legal client and a great business partner.

Carol Ruth Shepherd

General Counsel

Exceptional team builder

I greatly enjoyed working for Ron. His ability to hire very bright, capable managerial and technical staff resulted in an organization which developed a reputation as a leader in object-oriented technologies in the 1990’s. A leading Internet solutions company sought out the company and purchased it in 1998. Ron was also very good at helping the company build social networks, hosting regular activities where employees would bring friends, acquaintances and business contacts.

Tom Merritt

Business Manager

Contributions to the community

It’s funny how many places I run into Ron – our lives seem to be on parallel paths! Back in the days when my job was help West Pole become an IBM Rational Partner, Ron and I were talking iterative software development. These days, it’s more likely to be about regional transit as we both share a passion for economic development… Or about something in the tech world, given that we both run technology businesses… I don’t really know how he does it, because he seems to be everywhere! But that’s precisely what’s great about Ron – his networking, his ability to bring people together, and his tireless contributions to the community.

Catherine Juon

Certified EOS Implementor