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On the Web
- 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.
- 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.
- 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."
- Digital Opportunity Channel - Very extensive digital divide news portal. Collaboration between OneWorld.net and the Digital Divide Network. Has newsletter.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Tennessee State University Digital Divide Conference - A conferencing alliance to bridge the digital divide between historically black colleges, universities and other higher educational institutions.
- 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.
- 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.
Wikipedia Articles
- Digital divide - The term digital divide refers to the gap between those with regular, effective access to digital and information technology, and those without it. According to Mehra (2004), the digital divide is “the troubling gap between those who use computers and the internet and those who do not” (Mehra et al, ...
- Digital Divide Network - TakingITGlobal in Toronto, Canada produces and coordinates the Digital Divide Network (DDN), which is a spinoff of Helping.org (Helping.
- Global digital divide - The global digital divide is a term used to describe “great disparities in opportunity to access the Internet and the information and educational/business opportunities tied to this access … between developed and developing countries” (Lu 2001 p. 1).
- Digital Divide Data - Digital Divide Data is a social enterprise providing education scholarships to handicapped and disadvantaged employees in Cambodia and Laos. Featured in Thomas L.
- Center to Bridge the Digital Divide - The Center to Bridge the Digital Divide (CBDD) is a self-sustaining outreach unit of the Washington State University Extension. Founded in 2001, the CBDD is an ICT4D organization committed to assisting under-served populations leverage information communication technologies (ICT) to better their lives and achieve desired goals.