Accelerating Internet Accessibility in U.S. Cities

Route Fifty: New York City partnered with T-Mobile in December to provide 5,000 Bronx families in public housing with free tablets and discounted internet in 2017. But the deal wouldn’t have materialized without the help of a small startup set to be scaled up by the Future Cities Accelerator.

Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit EveryoneOn, and nine other early-stage organizations tackling challenges faced by poor or vulnerable urban populations, on Wednesday won $100,000 each and nine months of support from the accelerator.

EveryoneOn’s goal is to connect 1 million people in America to affordable, reliable internet by 2020 brokering deals between big and small ISPs, tech companies and state and local governments like it did in the Bronx.

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