Insittute for Local Self Reliance -At least 100,000 San Francisco residents lack adequate Internet access and miss out on economic and educational benefits. A new model, developed by Monkeybrains, a local Internet Service Provider, and the city of San Francisco, successfully bridges this digital divide for public housing residents. Thanks to low start up and maintenance costs, their solution will be financially self-sustaining for years to come.
Some large ISPs like Comcast and AT&T have programs that serve low-income households, but the service they offer is often slow and the process for subscribing painfully bureaucratic. Monkeybrains provides high-speed Internet access to public housing units at no cost to the end user, with the same level of customer service that they would give any other subscriber. In some cases, the ISP does receive a monthly payment of $10 per unit from building management.
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