AH Press Releases

AH Press Releases

Community Broadband Award for Digital Redwoods Initiative

Posted September 10th, 2009 by seanm

For Immediate Release
September 9, 2009

Contact: Sean McLaughlin, e: sean@accesshumboldt.net
tel: 707-476-1798, cel: 707-616-2381 or 202-495-0616

Access Humboldt’s DIGITAL REDWOODS Initiative
Wins Community Broadband Award
“Community Wireless Network of the Year”  read more »

Live Town Hall by Rep. Mike Thompson

Posted September 2nd, 2009 by seanm

2 September 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For Information Contact: Tracy Jordan French (707) 476-1798
e: admin@accesshumboldt.net

Access Humboldt to airs Rep. Mike Thompson's Eureka town hall
LIVE with KIEM-TV, on AH-11 and online

Eureka CA - Access Humboldt is partnering with KIEM-TV to televise Rep. Mike Thompson's town hall meeting LIVE in its entirety on channel 11 (AH-11) for Suddenlink cable subscribers.

Rep. Thompson's Town Hall meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 2nd starting at 5:30 pm.  read more »

Public Interest Internet Agenda

Posted August 26th, 2009 by seanm

A Public Interest Internet Agenda is the Key to a National Broadband Plan that Serves the Public Good

Public interest media and telecommunications experts - including Access Humboldt's executive director Sean McLaughlin - collaborated to formulate public policies that will allow communities to reach for the American Dream in the Digital Age - the report "A Public Interest Internet Agenda" is released in Eureka, California.  read more »

Digital Redwoods - Eureka!

Posted July 12th, 2009 by seanm

Tech Beat article:

"Setting the stage for local broadband"
Sean McLaughlin/For the Times-Standard
Posted: 07/09/2009 01:30:16 AM PDT
http://www.times-standard.com/business/ci_12791950

As submitted:

National Broadband Effort has a Eureka Moment
Digital Redwoods  read more »

Broadband Stimulus - rules released

Posted July 1st, 2009 by seanm

Local advocate for “Digital Redwoods” offers comments on Federal rules
Access Humboldt joins national efforts for Broadband Media Access

Eureka, CA - In response to today’s release of Federal guidelines for rural broadband stimulus funding, Access Humboldt’s executive director Sean McLaughlin said: “We join with rural regions, local governments, and public interest collaborations around the country today in support of the Obama Administration’s vision to stimulate community based broadband media solutions.”  read more »

National Broadband Plan - FCC comments filed

Posted June 11th, 2009 by seanm

Access Humboldt joined national groups this week in filing three separate comments to the Federal Communications Commission regarding the national Broadband Plan.

Broadband Policy statement - Main Street Project

Posted May 4th, 2009 by seanm

Broadband Policy
making it work for everyone

Main Street Project, Media Mobilizing Project and
Access Humboldt created this document jointly at
a meeting hosted by the Media Democracy
Coalition in April 2009.

Attached in English and Spanish language

Access Humboldt to attend Policy Summit in DC

Posted May 3rd, 2009 by seanm

For Immediate Release
May 3, 2009

Contact: Tracy Jordan French, e: admin@accesshumboldt.net, tel: 707-476-1798

Access Humboldt joins national efforts for Broadband Media Access
Local advocate for “Digital Redwoods” to attend policy summit in DC

Eureka, CA - Access Humboldt will be representing the North Coast at two events in Washington DC next week (May 13-14) – the Internet for Everyone Coalition member meeting (internetforeveryone.org) and the Free Press Summit (http://www.freepress.net/summit).  read more »

Rural broadband stimulus comments filed

Posted April 13th, 2009 by seanm

Access Humboldt joins call for Public Interest Broadband Principles in Federal Stimulus
- Local community access provider signs on to comments for NTIA and RUS rules with national organizations

Eureka, CA - Access Humboldt joined with the Rural Internet and Broadband Policy Group, the Media and Democracy Coalition (media-democracy.net), and the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (natoa.org) in filing comments today with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the USDA’s Rural Utility Service (RUS).  read more »

Rural Broadband for the Next Generation

Posted April 10th, 2009 by seanm

Tech Beat article submitted today:

Rural Broadband Media Access gets a new voice
“Through any Media and Regardless of Frontiers”

By Sean McLaughlin

Rural America includes over sixty million Americans, about twenty percent of the population living over areas that equal eighty percent of the land. Land and water are the predominant features of rural communities with local cultures and economies that grow and develop in response to each unique place.  read more »

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