Open Directory - Society: Issues: Science and Technology: Computers: Internet: Digital Divide
See also: This category in other languages: - Describes recipients of the grants in the year 2000. - 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. - Responsible for state-wide IT planning, coordination, and initiatives. - Provides assistance to and for the benefit of the poor, underserved and underprivileged. - Articulates a public interest vision for the digital age and demonstrates the value of communications for solving social problems by promoting a vision and policy alternatives for the digital age. - An effort of bridging the digital divide between the developed world and the developing world. - International NGO aiming to help people in developing countries use ICT to improve their lives. Has online newsletter. - 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." - Highlights and rewards young people who are developing outstanding, innovative online projects which directly benefit other children worldwide. [English/German/French/Spanish] - 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. [English/Spanish/Portuguese] - 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. - Refurbishes and ships used computers to organizations in East Africa. Works to bridge the digital divide, focusing on women and youth groups and organizations working for social development. - Articles related to decision makers lag and its economic and cultural consequnces. - Provides links to and information about research, data, resources, and grants available on the topic of inequitable access. - 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. - 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. - US focussed Discussion Paper - An organization working to bridge the Digital Divide through community-based media arts programs. - Discusses the meaning of "world" in "worldwide web" and asks what the global network really means. - Article by Andy Carvin of the Benton Foundation arguing that the digital divide is the civil rights issue of the next century. - 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. - Addresses the digital divide of education and technology in emerging economies. - Explaining the Digital Divide, the exclusion of those left aside the Information Society Development by comparing projects in France and Estonia to involve all in the use of Internet. - This is a research Foundation working in India on the issues of access to communications for poor village communities. They are particularly interested in supporting content generation at a local level, to ensure that localy relevant information is available on the web for these communities, in a language they can understand. - The rich aren't only getting richer, a new report finds they're also getting wired. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - US organization offering computer education for senior citizens at many locations. - 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. - Aim is to advance the use of new technologies as a tactical tool for civil society in developing and transition countries. - Research article on the digital divide and infrastructure design in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). Also available in PDF. - Article by Thomas Novak and Donna Hoffman for Project 2000, sponsored by Vanderbilt University. Links to references. - This FAO report outlines the elements of a communication for development approach applied to the problems of rural development. - Washington DC area start-up nonprofit organization offering computer science training to community members. - VERCON is the virtual extension work project run by the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation) This is a full description of the project. - 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. - Information on the preparatory process and the two phases in Geneva (December 2003) and Tunis (November 2005). Organized by the UN agency International Telecommunication Union (ITU). (November 16, 2005) - 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? (December 01, 2003) - 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. (December 01, 2003) - 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. (March 13, 2002) - This report aims to describe the group of Americans who are underserved by Internet content, to analyze the online content currently available for those who are underserved, and to provide a road map for action. (March 01, 2000) - BBC News Online concerning the international digital divide. Case studies focus on Burkina Faso, United States, Morocco, and Mongolia. (September 14, 1999)
