Unbuffered explores Internet access, digital equity, and local technology solutions, but with a broader lens on how tech shapes our lives, our communities, and our sense of agency. We make technology and technology makes us.
Unbuffered focuses on Internet access and connectivity technology – how does it encourage or discourage local self-reliance? With interviews and occasional live panel discussions, Unbuffered explores the ways technology interacts with our communities and our agency as citizens of an open society. It digs deep into how technologies actually work and how laws and policies interact with tech in the real world to shape our lives. This is ILSR’s longest-running show, originally called Community Broadband Bits.
ILSR’s new Unbuffered podcast launches a bold new chapter in community-centered technology conversation, building on the legacy of the Community Broadband Bits podcast while expanding the focus to include how power, policy, monopoly dynamics, and digital ecosystems shape everyday life.
In the first official episode of Unbuffered, host Christopher Mitchell is joined by a powerhouse roundtable: Karl Bode, Gigi Sohn, Doug Dawson, and Sean Gonsalves. Together, they have a wide-ranging conversation on broadband policy, media consolidation, and the systems of power shaping both.
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Unbuffered launches with a powerhouse roundtable on broadband policy, the FCC, media consolidation, and whether today’s tech ecosystem is helping or hurting the public.
Unbuffered is here. In this kickoff episode, Chris Mitchell introduces a new chapter that builds on Community Broadband Bits while expanding the conversation around Internet...