Universal Access

Infrastructure Project

510pen is an infrastructure project designed to provide sliding scale broadband hardware and installation to Oakland community groups paired with capacity-building workshops.  

Infrastructure Project

CAMBOFEST is Cambodia's first internationally recognized independent movie festival, and is Cambodia's longest running international movie festival event.

We are currently seeking to establish, aside from normal annual event-oriented festival operations, a year-round administrative and media center which can serve as the home for CamboFest in the offseason and as a location for special screenings, lectures, and workshops.

Infrastructure Project

As TV becomes online video, there is an opportunity to put control in the hands of the creators.  The large media companies are trying to repeat massive centralization with gatekeepers.  We make democratic media infrastructure called Miro, an open source HD video player, with over 7 million downloads globally.

With this new phase of our project, we want to directly address the needs of communities in developing countries by making video sharable in low bandwidth conditions, rich with subtitles, and synchronized with any low cost mobile device. 

Infrastructure Project

National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC) requests funding to analyze the data and publish the key findings from our Mapping the Media Arts Field survey.  This comprehensive national census measures the field’s economic, community, and creative indicators and will live as a searchable database on NAMAC’s website.  Mapping the Field demonstrates the value of the media arts and public media fields and the important role they plan in the free flow of information in our society.

Infrastructure Project

A group of baseball loving, middle aged Midwesternerswere going about their lives quite contentedly, until a Hollywood movie came totown and changed everything.