Israeli doctoral student at Berkeley bringing the internet to you
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Israeli Berkeley researcher spreads the internet

  •   Project brings broadband to rural communities
  • 10/24/2013
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     Yahel Ben-David, president of De Novo Group, in his El Cerrito home (Photo: SF Gate)
     
    Posted on October 22, 2013 | By jtemple@sfchronicle.com (James Temple), SFGate
     
    Google’s nonprofit arm will announce on Tuesday that it has contributed $2 million to the De Novo Group, a Berkeley organization working to deliver affordable broadband Internet access to rural communities, starting in Northern California.
     
    The broad mission of the organization’s “Celerate” project is “to get the next billion people online,” said  Yahel Ben-David, (an Israeli doctoral student at Berkeley) president of De Novo. Or at least onto faster and cheaper Internet connections, which studies link to improved economic development and educational achievement. Read more...
     
    (original title of SF Gate article: 'Google grants $2M to researchers bringing broadband to rural California')