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  • What It Takes for an Independent Record Store to Survive Now

    Joel Oliphint

    August 03, 2016 |

    Pitchfork |

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    Response Location: United States, Columbus, Ohio

    As popular music has become digital and immaterial in the twenty-first century, record stores are hard to find and those in business struggle to be commercially viable. Used Kids record store in Columbus, OH has been in business for thirty years and is perhaps even more popular now that it was ten years ago. The current management treat the medium of vinyl not as a museum artifact, but rather as a commodity in demand by selling online, holding private events with collectors, and selling the materiality to young people.

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  • Can Bodegas Solve the Philippines' Internet Problem?

    Rick Paulas

    July 26, 2016 |

    Pacific Standard |

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    Response Location: Philippines

    While internet access is widespread in the Philippines, the speed tends to be low and the cost tends to be high. The Philippines-based company Wi-Fi Interactive Network has been taking steps to address these issues by creating internet hot spots at bodegas. People can access these hot spots for free through the purchase of essential items such as soap, toothpaste, and milk.

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  • #SeaHomeless: Finding affordable, innovative ways to harness technology to combat homelessness

    Lisa Stiffler

    June 29, 2016 |

    GeekWire |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    The homeless population in Seattle is in a crisis of high proportions, with people facing a myriad of challenges. Different organizations have started to better integrate technology such as social media in addressing some of these issues, transitioning away from the paper-heavy systems may hold them back from maximum efficiency in their mission and leveraging digital tools to better reach those in need.

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  • Meet the Full-Service Social Media Secretary for Prisoners

    Maurice Chammah

    June 29, 2016 |

    The Marshall Project |

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    Response Location: United States, Toledo, Ohio

    "A social secretary for people who have been deprived of the forms of communication that are now ubiquitous almost everywhere except for prisons," Renea Royster is part of a network of organizations (including Pigeonly, Infolincs, Inmatefone, and Phone Donkey) helping prisoners keep in touch with people on the outside.

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  • How One School District Used Buses to Bring the Internet Home

    Rick Paulas

    June 10, 2016 |

    Pacific Standard |

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    Response Location: United States, Indio, California

    Many in the rural town of Indio, CA, didn't have access to the internet. Darryl Adams, superintendent of Coachella Valley schools, devised a frugal way to provide internet access to many of his district's poor neighborhoods - mobile, school bus-based WiFi hotspots.

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  • The Town That Made Its Own Internet

    Rick Paulas

    May 26, 2016 |

    Pacific Standard |

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    Response Location: United States, Greenfield, Massachusetts

    Before 2011, 40% of residents of Greenfield, Massachusetts did not have Internet access. The mayor hired someone to help the town become its own Internet Service Provider, build out the necessary fiber, and fund the entire project without raising taxes. Dan Kelley, who oversaw the project, said “the biggest reason the plan in Greenfield has worked is because of the buy-in commitment made by the town’s residents.” The new affordable Internet is helping residents throughout the town stay connected.

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  • Psychiatrist in a horse barn

    Rory Linnane

    March 17, 2016 |

    The Post Crescent |

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    Response Location: United States, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin

    Wisconsin confronts a lack of psychiatrists, in particular those who specialize in working with children. The state has begun a telepsychiatry program that enables a psychiatrist to counsel children in remote rural areas. By using webcams, the program has succeeded at eliminating travel time for psychiatrists and appropriating resources to directly and quickly serve those who need them.

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  • Telepsychiatry spreading mental health help

    Rory Linnane

    March 17, 2016 |

    The Post Crescent |

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    Response Location: United States, Marshfield, Wisconsin

    Fifty-one counties in the state of Wisconsin do not have child psychiatrists to provide counseling because most of them live in widely populated urban areas. Wisconsin psychiatrists now are offering telepsychiatry, which enables young people to do video conferencing and live chatting with a psychiatrist even if they are in rural areas. The program has shown that it is just as effective as in-person treatment; however, Wisconsin does not allow private insurers to pay for telemedicine services so the reimbursement for telepsychiatrists is still problematic.

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  • Jennifer Pahlka helps improve how government works

    John Wildermuth

    March 11, 2016 |

    SFGate |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Jennifer Pahlka founded Code for America, an organization that provides human-centered design tech solutions to government services. Now they have a growing list of requests from cities all over the US, a network of 44,000 volunteers nationwide who create "civic-hacking" solutions, and an over $10 million yearly budget.

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  • Estonia: Digital Society

    Fi Glover Henrietta Moore Martha Lane Fox

    February 03, 2016 |

    BBC |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Estonia

    Government services are easily accessible in Estonia in part because everything is online. A digital signature carries the same weight as a physical signature, and data is shared between offices allowing forms such as tax returns to be pre-filled for citizens. The country leapfrogged the rest of the world, investing in digital literacy and infrastructure in an effort to serve its small, spread-out population.

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