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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.
http://www.computers-for-learning.org/
InterConnection
A non-profit group that donates web sites and Internet hosting to organizations dedicated to benefiting the local community or environment to help eliminate the digital divide.
http://www.interconnection.org
Rhayader Telecentre
Support service to help bridge the digital divide for those without access to information technologies in rural Wales.
http://www.rcs.telecentres.com
Digital Divide - Race Relations - Net Links
Links concerning race and information technology. Also has links to sites on other gender and race issues.
http://racerelations.about.com/newsissues/...
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.
http://www.sdfutures.org
Money drives the digital divide - Jun. 20, 2000
The rich aren't only getting richer, a new report finds they're also getting wired.
http://cnnfn.cnn.com/2000/06/20/life/q_div...
How Worldwide Is the Web?
Discusses the meaning of "world" in "worldwide web" and asks what the global network really means.
http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/ja...
Plugged In
A creative arts and technology studio for East Palo Alto, California young people that includes a youth-operated design firm.
http://www.pluggedin.org/
Digital Divide
Articles related to decision makers lag and its economic and cultural consequnces.
http://www.burcet.net/escenarios/digital_d...
Computers for Africa - bridging the digital divide
Computers for Africa refurbishes and ships used computers to organizations in East Africa. We work to bridge the digital divide, focusing on women and youth groups and organizations working for social development.
http://www.computers4africa.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.
http://adulted.about.com/education/adulted...
Global Knowledge for Development Discussion Database
Archive of the Global Knowledge Discussion list. This is the major list dealing with ICTs in Development
http://notes.edc.org/GLG/GKD/repo.nsf/sear...
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.
http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/mfh/nnw/nnw...
World Economic Forum - Digital Divide
Information on the WEF task force, which was designed as a platform for discussion, coordination and development of digital divide projects. The task force brings together high-calibre representatives from the public and private sectors as well as civil society.
http://www.weforum.org/digitaldivide
Benton Foundation
Works with other groups such as National Urban League, AOL, National Endowment for the Arts to help provide solutions for bridging the digital divide. Links to various foundations including Ford, Kellogg. Offers free on-line versions of reports dealing with technology and access.
http://www.benton.org/
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.
http://www.opnetwork.org
Childnet Academy
Highlights and rewards young people who are developing outstanding, innovative online projects which directly benefit other children worldwide. [English/French/Spanish]
http://www.childnetacademy.org/
First Monday - Effective use: A community informatics strategy beyond the Digital Divide
Paper by Michael Gurstein examines the concepts and strategies underlying the notion of the Digital Divide and concludes that it is little more than a marketing campaign for Internet service providers.
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_1...
Haves, Have-Nots, and Have-to-Haves: Net Effects of the Digital Divide
US focussed Discussion Paper
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/is98/final_pa...
VERCON Communications for Agriculture
VERCON is the virtual extension work project run by the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation) This is a full description of the project.
http://www.fao.org/sd/2001/KN1007_en.htm
United Kingdom Statistics Web Site
Latest statistics for Internet access in the UK. In PDF.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/inter0...
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.
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/wp/access/index.htm...
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.
http://www.washington.edu/wto/digital
Committee to Democratize Information Technology
Based in Brazil, this organization's slogan is "Say No to the Digital Apartheid." The organization works with and seeks partnerships with industry in provide equal access in all the school. In English and Portuguese.
http://www.cdi.org.br/
Information Systems for International Development
This is a list of resources related to the planning and deployment of information systems in developing countries.
http://members.aol.com/kabjian/itindev.htm
Urban Ed, Inc.
Washington DC area start-up nonprofit organization offering computer science training to community members.
http://www.urbaned.org
GITA - Government Information Technology Agency - Arizona
http://gita.state.az.us/GITA/telecom/topaz...
Tennessee State University Digital Divide Conference
A conferencing alliance to bridge the digital divide between historically black colleges, universities and other higher educational institutions.
http://explorers.tsuniv.edu/tsuaol/default...
BBC News: Bridging the digital divide
BBC News Online concerning the international digital divide. Case studies focus on Burkina Faso, United States, Morocco, nd Mongolia.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/...
Seniornet
Nation wide organization offering computer education for seniors at many locations.
http://www.seniornet.org/
The Analog Divide: Technology Practices in Public Education
Research article on the digital divide and infrastructure design in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD).
http://torinmonahan.com/papers/analog.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.
http://elab.vanderbilt.edu/research/papers...
Digital Right
Organization which aims to spread the adoption of Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) to improve the information and communication technology (ICT) capacity of developing countries.
http://www.digitalright.org/
F2C: Freedom to Connect
Organization/movement working under two assumptions. First, if some connectivity is good, then more connectivity is better. Second, if a connection that does one thing is good, then a connection that can do many things is better.
http://freedom-to-connect.net/
Morino Institute
Explores opportunities to leverage the Internet to advance social change. Our focus is on entrepreneurship (netpreneurs), effective giving (venture philanthropy), and closing social and digital divides.
http://www.morino.org
Literacy.org Bridges to the Future Initiative (BFI)
Addresses the digital divide of education and technology in emerging economies.
http://literacy.org/bfi_ili/
Digital Divide's New Frontier
Audit/analysis of online opportunities and information for low income persons. Many links to information. Download in PDF.
http://www.childrenspartnership.org/pub/lo...
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."
http://www.flexibility.co.uk/issues/debate...
Info Today
Article by Andy Carvin of the Benton Foundation arguing that the digital divide is the civil rights issue of the next century.
http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/Jan00/c...
Bridge The Digital Divide
An effort of bridging the digital divide between the developed world and the developing world. CNET Networks International Media has partnered with UK charity Computer Aid International to work on this.
http://www.bridgethedigitaldivide.com/
The Journal of Community Informatics
Peer reviewed articles about community informatics and the impact of information and communications technology on community development.
http://ci-journal.net/
The Center for the Study of Technology and Society - Equity
Equity and access concerns are addressed based on race, sex, content, socioeconomic status. Links to news articles, conferences, and other site dealing with the Digital Divide.
http://www.tecsoc.org/equity/equity.htm
Women in Global Science and Technology
The main theme of this organization is empowering women through technology. The focus is global and there is an international bibliography (dated 1997, but still useful) on issues concerning gender equity in technology.
http://www.wigsat.org/
CNET News.com - What digital divide?
Pacific Research Institute director Sonia Arrison says that rhetoric notwithstanding, the digital divide is not a crisis and is certainly not destined to become the civil liberties issue of the 21st century.
http://news.com.com/2010-1071-858537.html
Women-Related Internet Info Email Lists
List of news and discussion groups for women interested in the digital divide based on gender.
http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/f_...
The Communications Initiative
This is one of quite a few major Portals aimed at this type of "Digital Divide" issue. It is supported by major research organisations in this field such as the Canadian Development Agency, and by large content providers such as the BBC.
http://www.comminit.com/index.html
AOL Time Warner Foundation | Digital Divide Bridge Grants
Describes recipients of the grants in the year 2000.
http://aoltimewarnerfoundation.org/expand/...
The Incommunicado Project
A web research resource combined with an email-based mailing list covering network(ed) ecologies, ICT for development, internet governance, analyses of the NGO sector, and emerging South-South relations.
http://www.incommunicado.info/
Beaumont Foundation of America
Grants computers to communities, schools, and individuals to support digital inclusion for underserved individuals.
http://www.bmtfoundation.com/
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.
http://www.pbs.org/digitaldivide/
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.
http://www.cpsr.org/publications/newslette...
Digital Divide Network
Provides links to and information about research, data, resources, and grants available on the topic of inequitable access.
http://www.digitaldivide.net/
Tactical Technology Collective
Aim is to advance the use of new technologies as a tactical tool for civil society in developing and transition countries.
http://www.tacticaltech.org/
Digital Opportunity Channel
Very extensive digital divide news portal. Collaboration between OneWorld.net and the Digital Divide Network. Has newsletter.
http://www.digitalopportunity.org
London School of Economics Chair for New Media and the Internet
Lecture by Professor Robin Mansell on the role media and networks can play in bridging the digital divide. PDF format.
http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/Media/rmlecture...
United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force
UN body set up to deal with the "digital divide" worldwide.
http://www.unicttaskforce.org/
Washington State University Center to Bridge the Digital Divide
Center devoted to equalizing information access and resources. Links to various projects in the Washington state area. Links to pilot programs such as community investment initiative.
http://cbdd.wsu.edu/
Digital Dividend
Explores sustainable business models for bridging the global digital divide. Its Project Clearinghouse is a database of nearly 700 digitally-enabled social enterprises in developing countries.
http://www.digitaldividend.org/
M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation
Aims to harness science and technology for environmentally sustainable and socially equitable development.
http://www.mssrf.org/
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.
http://www.computeruser.com/news/00/06/19/...
Falling Through the Net
Released July 8, 1999 by the US Department of Commerce, a series of three reports in the Falling Through the Net series on the telecommunications and information technology gap in the United States.
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/digitaldi...
World e_inclusion
Hewlett Packard's site to assist the rural poor in bridging the digital divide.
http://www.hp.com/e-inclusion/
Bridges.org
International NGO aiming to help people in developing countries use ICT to improve their lives. Has online newsletter.
http://www.bridges.org
Living in an e-World: An Information Society for All?
Explaining the Digital Divide, the exclusion of those left aside the Information Society Development by comparing projects in France & Estonia to involve all in the use of Internet.
http://gguillotin.chez.tiscali.fr/digital_...
Heads On Fire
An organization working to bridge the Digital Divide through community-based media arts programs.
http://www.headsonfire.org/
Solve Poverty - You Can Help Solve Poverty
Two organizations, Opportunity International and Hyperstudy.com Pty Ltd, working to provide small loans, on-line education and other resources to the economically disadvantaged. Lots of on-site links to other poverty related issues and services. Click and give site.
http://www.solvepoverty.com
First Monday - Why the "don’t–want–tos" won’t compute: Lessons from a New Zealand ICT Project
Journal article by Barbara Crump and Andrea McIlroy. This paper asks the question, why, when computing is available in a socially situated, convenient environment, at no cost, do people choose not to compute?
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_1...
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.'
http://www.morino.org/divides
Grameen Telecom's Village Phone Programme
This is a detailed case study of extending telecommunications to rural Bangladesh.
http://www.telecommons.com/villagephone/co...
World Computer Literacy
December 2, 2001, marks the first World Computer Literacy Day. Over 27 countries are participating in this event to bring technology to those who do not have it. Based in India.
http://www.worldcomputerliteracy.net/
Contentbank.org - The Search for High-Quality Online Content for Low-Income and Underserved Communities: Evaluating and Producing What's Needed
Research and recommendations to encourage the creation of low-barrier content and the careful evaluation of existing content to ensure that low-income and underserved individuals find a wide array of the online resources they want most. An Issue Brief and Action Plan by The Children's Partnership.
http://www.contentbank.org/AM/Template.cfm...
The Internet and Rural Development
This FAO report outlines the elements of a communication for development approach applied to the problems of rural development.
http://www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/sustdev...
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