About the Black Broadband Summit

During the pandemic, many black and brown families were left behind due to the digital divide. Some families could not afford the internet because of the monopoly internet providers had in the Twin Cities area.

The Black Broadband summit is the culmination of our work started with Project Nandi, during the George Floyd protests & covid-19. Project Nandi was founded because Ini Augustine wanted to make a change. She had seen firsthand the damage done to her community by the pandemic. Social injustice hit close to home with the George Floyd protests. With her experience being a network engineer she had the vision to make a community-owned internet cooperative a reality & close the digital divide in the Twin Cities