Geeks Without Frontiers

Programs: Connectivity is the revolution! "connectivity is the revolution! " was a one day thought leadership forum examining how to accelerate village connectivity with the possibility of positively impacting a billion people over the next decade. At the conference, geeks formally released its 'communityconnect' international model code and best practices initiative designed to drive and inspire a global policy effort to help close the digital divide, and help to bring connectivity to the estimated 3. 2 billion people who do not have the benefit of internet access. Previous thought leader panelists included: world bank state department international finance corporation google facebook ses o3b satellite network mansat bluetown dentons global connect intelsat.

geeks without frontiers(geeks) was, for the second year running, nominated for the global grand challenge awards for its 'communityconnect' initiative at the singularity global summit in san francisco, california. The 2017 global grand challenge nomination was for geeks's satellite broadband focused 'communityconnect' initiative, which aims to help close the global digital divide by introducing best practices for satellite operators, entities regulating and licensing satellite bandwidth, and operators on the ground. Geeks's co-founder, michael potter said, "we are honored that the high impact geeks without frontiers initiatives have continue to be recognized on a global level. " the 'communityconnect' working group has several industry experts including from echostar, mansat, the global vsat forum (gvf), the law firm reed smith, and bluetown.

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