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Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Community Broadband Bits is a weekly audio show hosted by Community Broadband Networks Initiative Director Christopher Mitchell featuring interviews with people building community networks or otherwise involved with Internet policy. You can listen to episodes below or download via Apple, Google, or Spotify. Alternatively if you know what to do with it, copy the feed here.
We also produce a semi-regular video show called Connect This! that has its own site. Find other podcasts from ILSR here.
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Reforming Rural Funding Structures for a Better Broadband Tomorrow – Episode 444 of the Community Broadband Podcast
Loveland Pulse Races Ahead – Episode 443 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Finding Our Way with the Help of Digital Navigators - Episode 442 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Predictions for 2021, Year in Review for 2020 - Episode 441 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Building Digitally Equitable Communities - Bonus Episode Ten of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast
The Truth is in the Numbers: How RS Fiber Brings Broadband to the Farms and Families of Rural Minnesota - Episode 440 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast
We've written a lot about RS Fiber, a broadband cooperative operating in two rural counties in south-central Minnesota. This week on the podcast Christopher talks with two representatives from the cooperative which serves almost three thousand members in Renville and Sibley counties. Our first guest is Jake Reiki, a corn and soybean farmer and Board Chair for RS Fiber. We’re also joined by Jenny Palmer, City Administrator for Winthrop and Treasurer for the cooperative.