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- Access America for Seniors - Department of Commerce Web Site Aimed At Closing Digital Divide - Provides information and links of interest to Seniors.
www.seniors.gov/articles/0600/digitaldivide.html
- An Educator's Guide to Access Issues - In order to meet the needs of students in today's world, access to technologies must be equally available to all students. Accessibility issues include social, economic, and educational status, gender, funding, hearing, visual, and other physical disabilities.
lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/wp/access/index.html
- Blacks Online Appreciate Net's Value - Study shows that African Americans who do use the Internet use it for more informational purposes than whites. Links to other ABC news stories on Digital Divide.
abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/digitaldivide001023.html
- Challenging the Digital Divide - Many people, mostly those already poor or socially disadvantaged in some other way, cannot or do not have access to new technologies and the opportunities they bring. These people stand on the wrong side of the "digital divide."
www.flexibility.co.uk/issues/debates/divide.htm
- Computers for Learning - Texas organization refurbishes donated computers from businesses and gives them to kids to use at home. Good layout of how to do this in your area.
www.computers-for-learning.org/home.html
- CPSR Winter 2000 Newsletter: Gender in the Internet Age - Explores the digital divide on a gender basis. Newsletter can be downloaded. Has a link to a discussion.
www.cpsr.org/publications/newsletters/issues/2000/Winter2000/index.html
- Demographics: Digital Divide More Economic than Ethnic - Overview of US Demographics of internet use.
cyberatlas.internet.com/big_picture/demographics/article/0,1323,5901_395581,00.html
- Digital Divide - Information on public television's two part series on the Digital Divide. Links to various sites concerning the digital divide and race, gender, and education. Also has links for educators to learn more about the issue and to implement new strategies in the classroom.
www.pbs.org/digitaldivide
- Digital Divide - Race Relations - Net Links - Links concerning race and information technology. Also has links to sites on other gender and race issues.
racerelations.about.com/newsissues/racerelations/msubdigdivide.htm?iam=ask&terms=%22digital+divide%22
- Digital Divide Solutions - Information, resources, and links to ways to decrease the digital divide. From the Hispanic Research Center at Arizona State University and The College Board.
www.asu.edu/DigitalDivideSolutions
- Digital Divide's New Frontier - Audit/analysis of online opportunities and information for low income persons. Many links to information. Download in PDF.
www.childrenspartnership.org/pub/low_income
- Digital Equity Portal - A collection of educational resources addressing inequitable access to technology tools, computers and the Internet. Produced by the U.S. Department of Education's PT3 Digital Equity Task Force.
www.digitalequity.info
- Digital Nonprophet Agency - Organization to assist in setting up technology centers in Philadelphia and aid people in the acquisition of computers and technology skills.
www.digitalnonprophetagency.org
- Digital Opportunity Coalition Chicago - docChicago is a regional resource center for digital divide activists, business people, and politicians. docChicago publishes original content as well as providing resources. Also has links to other "digital divide" sites with a focus on Chicago.
www.docChicago.net
- eChapman Online - Online stock trading with a new focus on emerging US companies owned by women, Latinos, African Americans, and other minorities.
www.echapman.com
- Facts and Fictions About the Digital Divide - A rigourous analysis of access issues within a North American context.
khacker2.freeyellow.com/ddnow6.htm
- Faith Tech - Technology initiative that bridges the digital divide in southwestern Pennsylvania. Unites communities with free technology education and service-learning.
www.faithtechcenter.com
- Falling Through the Net - National Telecommunications and Information Administration government report on the information technology gap in America. Download in PDF. Has links to fact sheets and charts.
www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/digitaldivide
- From Access to Outcomes: A New Report on the Digital Divide from the Morino Institute - Paper from the Morino Institute argues that technology is not an end by itself but should serve as a bridge to ending other types of 'social divides.'
www.morino.org/divides
- GITA - Government Information Technology Agency - Arizona -
gita.state.az.us/GITA/telecom/topazpr.htm
- Haves, Have-Nots, and Have-to-Haves: Net Effects of the Digital Divide - US focussed Discussion Paper
cyber.law.harvard.edu/is98/final_papers/Rozner.html
- Inconspicuous Inequities: The Myth of Universal Access - How technology is creating more problems in our(? US) society than improvements
www.cssjournal.com/nicholso.html
- Info Today - Article by Andy Carvin of the Benton Foundation arguing that the digital divide is the civil rights issue of the next century.
www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/Jan00/carvin.htm
- Money drives the digital divide - Jun. 20, 2000 - The rich aren't only getting richer, a new report finds they're also getting wired.
cnnfn.cnn.com/2000/06/20/life/q_divide
- Morino Institute - A nonprofit organization whose mission includes closing social divides and understanding the relationship and impact of the Internet on (US)society. Easily accessible site with good resources.
www.morino.org
- Municipal Research & Services Center - This site has links to groups and organization concerned with information technology and retraining urban workers, equalizing access, improving access in schools.
www.mrsc.org/legal/telecomm/digdiv.htm
- Neighborhood Networks - Housing and Urban Development (HUD) site dedicated to fostering technology growth and bridging the digital divide. Information on how to create and sustain a neighborhood network, including funding sources.
www.hud.gov/nnw/nnwindex.html
- News: Report: Money, not Race, Underlies Digital Divide - Money, not race, is a deciding factor in determining from which side of the digital divide a person will view the future, according to Jupiter Communications, Inc.
www.computeruser.com/news/00/06/19/news18.html
- OpNet - A non-profit organization working to bridge the digital divide by training young people to do web design. Provides economic opportunity through on-line job postings and internships. Based in San Francisco.
www.opnetwork.org
- Plugged In - An organization in East Palo Alto, CA, offers training for young people, assists community organizations in getting on-line and offers computer access for the entire community.
www.pluggedin.org
- PowerUP - PowerUP (Power Up) is comprised of nonprofit organizations, major corporations, and federal agencies which have joined together to give underserved youth access to technology and guidance on how to use it.
www.powerup.org
- Rhayader Telecentre - Support service to help bridge the digital divide for those without access to information technologies in rural Wales.
www.rcs.telecentres.com
- San Diego Futures Foundation - The San Diego Futures Foundation provides computer technology and services to nonprofit organizations and schools to help bridge the digital divide in San Diego County.
www.sdfutures.org
- Scott County Learning Center - Technology center based in Waldron, Arkansas, part of the "Designated Neighborhood Network" through the Department of HUD to help bridge the digital divide in Scott County. Has chat room and links to training and job opportunities.
www.sclconline.org
- Silicon Valley Digital Divide - Silicon Valley Civic Action Network initiative to help bridge the gap. Has links to community and national resources. Seeking volunteers.
www.siliconvalleydigitaldivide.net
- Tennessee State University Digital Divide Conference - A conferencing alliance to bridge the digital divide between historically black colleges, universities and other higher educational institutions.
explorers.tsuniv.edu/tsuaol/default.htm
- The Analog Divide: Technology Practices in Public Education - Research article on the digital divide and infrastructure design in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD).
www.rpi.edu/~monaht/papers/analog.htm
- The Digital Bridge Project - Helps bring computer equipment, cable broadband access, and training programs to community centers in minority communities. A national (American) outreach intiative for people of color to become part of the information age.
www.digitalbridgeproject.org
- The Digital Divide - From about.com. Article on adult learning and the digital divide. Links to other articles including the digital divide and race relations.
adulted.about.com/education/adulted/library/weekly/aa100399.htm
- The Impact of Race on Computer Access and Internet Use - Article by Thomas Novak and Donna Hoffman for Project 2000, sponsored by Vanderbilt University. Links to references.
ecommerce.vanderbilt.edu/research/papers/html/manuscripts/race/science.html
- United Kingdom Statistics Web Site - Latest statistics for Internet access in the UK. In PDF.
www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/inter0700.pdf
- Urban Ed, Inc. - Washington DC area start-up nonprofit organization offering computer science training to community members.
www.urbaned.org
- Washington University Digital Divide Project - Resources for teachers and students interested in the digital divide. Focus is on K-12, the WTO and e-commerce.
www.washington.edu/wto/digital
- What Digital Divide? - Anecdotal information about seniors bridging the digital divide.
www.beyond55.com/digital_divide_debunked.htm
- Women-Related Internet Info Email Lists - List of news and discussion groups for women interested in the digital divide based on gender.
www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/f_net.html
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