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	Digital Divide Council - What is the Digital Divide? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Digital divides can exist among those of differing income and economic levels, education, age and gender, race or ethnicity, location, single and dual-parent families, and disability.
		The digital divide could be reduced and the economy of the state advanced and prospered by the design and implementation of programs that provide economic resources, training, and access to at-risk members of our society that are without these critical tools.
		Therefore, raising the level of digital inclusion by increasing the number of Americans using the technology tools of the digital age is a vitally important national goal.
	www.digitaldividecouncil.com /digitaldivide/the_divide.html (464 words)

	Amazon.com: Digital Divide: Books: David Bolt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The term of Digital divide is originally emphasized by the TV series which were first developed for PBS in 1997 by David Bolt, a documentary film producer, who is also one of the author of this book.
		Authors first examine the three educational essences of the digital divide in this information age: access to technology is not equally available to all students, is not handled equally by all educators, and is not equally useful to everyone in education.
		Under the worldwide perspective, digital divide become a very complex problem which manifests in different ways in different social background, the solutions must be based on an understanding of local needs and conditions, and integrating technology into society in an effective and sustainable way.
	www.amazon.com /Digital-Divide-David-Bolt/dp/1575000865 (2055 words)

	Overview of the digital divide \| bridges.org (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Simply put, the "digital divide" is the division between those who have access to ICT and are using it effectively, and those who do not.
		To bridges.org, the digital divide is thus a lost opportunity -- the opportunity for the information "have-nots" to use ICT to improve their lives.
		The digital divide is a complex issue, often clouded by heated debate and hype.
	www.bridges.org.cob-web.org:8888 /digitaldivide/index.html (355 words)

	Digital divide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		6 Digital divide in the context of e-democracy
		The digital divide is often discussed in an international context because of the widely varying social and economic conditions in different countries.
		The concept of a digital divide has resonance with views that the revolutionary power of the Internet and the emerging utopian information society is also subject to a downside but this has to be balanced by the evidence of rapidly increased take up of the Internet in the developing world.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Digital_divide (1459 words)

	The Digital divide
		Digital divide is a term used to describe the inequality between technology haves and have nots.
		However, Warschauer describes a similar failure to bridge the digital divide in Ennis, Ireland, demonstrating that computers alone are not sufficient.
		I have done almost every activity described on http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/chart.asp?img=Interne2.htm, which means that my lifestyle is probably near the extreme limit of the digital divide "haves." My husband commented that he remembers Usenet before AOL, and as far as the digital divide is concerned, he frankly wishes fewer people had access, not more.
	www.osmond-riba.org /lis/DigDivide.htm (2355 words)

	Digital Divide and Libraries: Equity and the Internet
		Digital broadband networks for economic development and mobility: A bricks and bits strategy for retrofitting cities.
		Baker, Paul M.A. Policy bridges for the digital divide: Assessing the landscape and gauging the dimensions.
		Bridging the organizational divide: Toward a comprehensive approach to the digital divide.
	web.syr.edu /~jryan/infopro/divide.html (2138 words)

	Bridging the Digital Divide Project
		The Bridging the Digital Divide Project provides collaborative opportunities for community college educators, community leaders, and corporate partners to work together to better define this complex issue and build effective bridges to lessen the gap between the information haves and have nots.
		The purpose of the Bridging the Digital Divide Project is to inspire community college educators to take the strategic and aggressive steps to help provide the necessary information technology access and skill sets for a growing number of minorities and economically challenged populations.
		This book defines the Digital Divide in the context of community colleges and highlights community college programs, and is available for purchase at the LeagueStore.
	www.league.org /league/projects/digital_divide.htm (417 words)

	4th Wave \| Digital Divide
		The digital divide is defined as the disparity between individuals with and those without access to a computer and the Internet.
		The divide is applicable to all population sectors encompassing both adults and children, but the focus of much attention on has been on segments of the population seen as underserved - low income, rural and multicultural areas and women.
		The role of the government involvement in the digital divide continues to be a subject of debate.
	www.fourthwave.com /DigitalDivide.htm (3524 words)

	QuickLinks - Digital divide
		The report, Enabling a Digitally United Kingdom, says that nearly half of the adult population in the UK is what it describes as digitally disengaged.
		The United Nations has taken a major step toward bridging the digital divide with the adoption, by the General Assembly, of a resolution which welcomes the organisation of the World Summit on the Information Society.
		Nations ignoring the so-called "digital divide" between information technology "haves" and "have-nots" could be undermining their own ability to compete in the global market, a new report by International Data Corp contends, based on findings by IDC's Information Society Index (ISI), which ranks nations based on several criteria relating to their information-technology backbones.
	www.qlinks.net /quicklinks/divide.htm (2995 words)

	Global digital divide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The "global digital divide" is distinguishable from the "digital divide", a phenomenon wherein the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, at least with respect to technology, as the gap between the technological haves and have-nots widens.
		The concept of the digital divide was originally popularized with regard to the disparity in Internet access between rural and urban areas of the United States of America.
		This global divide is often characterized as falling along what is sometimes called the north-south divide of "northern" wealthier nations and "southern" poorer ones.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Global_digital_divide (1036 words)

	HGSE News: Beyond the Digital Divide
		The Clubhouse has built a sturdy bridge across what has become popularly known as the “digital divide.” That term was coined in the Clinton administration in response to a U.S. Department of Commerce report titled "Falling through the Net," which charted startling disparities between the haves and the have-nots in terms of access to technology.
		In a controversial move last October, the federal government cut funding to two hallmark Clinton-era digital divide initiatives that provide community technology centers and training in low-income neighborhoods on the grounds that the programs were no longer needed.
		“The digital divide is shorthand for any number of divides between privileged students and students who don’t have as many opportunities,” she says.
	www.gse.harvard.edu /news/features/digitaldivide07012003.html (2037 words)

	In Focus \| August/September 2004 \| Digital Divide
		Digital Cinema Initiative (DCI) (n) a consortium of seven major movies studios – Disney, Fox, MGM, Paramount, Sony, Universal and Warner Bros. – formed in March 2002 and charged with establishing technical standards and brainstorming business models for high performance digital cinema.
		He points out that the term “digital cinema” is comprised of two very generic terms and that even a cinema owner projecting a DVD can legally and legitimately claim “digital” status, because he is technically correct.
		According to Thomas Lim, IDA director of digital exchange, a government grant was presented to the circuit in order to defray some of the installation costs.
	www.infocusmag.com /04augustseptember/digitaldivide.htm (3152 words)

	Digital Divide (Resources)
		Shrinking the digital divide is a big concern; those with computers have an advantage over those without.
		Rather than a one-dimensional "digital divide," more accurately there is a policy problem related to the use and deployments of ICTS with multiple geographic, social, economic and organizational dimensions.
		Most of us think the divide is the gap between the technology "haves" and "have-nots," presumably white, wealthy, and urban Americans with computers and Internet access on the one hand and minority, poor, and rural Americans who lack computers and web access on the other.
	faculty.washington.edu /krumme/internet/divide.html (3962 words)

	Bridging the Digital Divide
		Stated simply, the "digital divide" is the gap between the technology haves and have-nots.
		The latest statistical report on the digital divide and the state of Internet use and access in the United States is Falling Through the Net: Toward Digital Inclusion.
		The digital divide is being recognized and, with enough effort, solved in many communities around the United States.
	www.riverdeep.net /current/2002/01/011402t_divide.jhtml (1478 words)

	digital divide, the second
		When talking about digital divide we usually refer to some social segments which could be excluded from the benefits of the new coming communication society.
		This is the reason why the digital fracture of decision makers implies severe limitations on what a society will be able to do in 2012 and further.
		The main conclusion is that to prevent the digital divide at the bottom we have to counteract the current decision makers lag.
	www.burcet.net /escenarios/digital_divide.htm (666 words)

	The Digital Divide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This global digital divide may hinder the ability of non-industrialized economies to 'catch up' with the living standards and productivity of the industrialized world.
		But there may also be an effect in the opposite direction, that is increased spread of PC and Internet use could raise productivity and education.
		The maps show that there is general improvement across the globe in both PC and Internet use rates.
	ucatlas.ucsc.edu /communication/digitaldivide.php (710 words)

	Second-Level Digital Divide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Much of the existing literature on the digital divide - the differences between the "haves" and "have nots" regarding access to the Internet - limits its scope to a binary classification of technology use by only considering whether someone does or does not use the Internet.
		Some scholars have offered a refined understanding of the digital divide by suggesting that there are different levels at which divides exist.
		If users often give up in frustration and confusion then merely having access does not mean that a digital divide has been solved because a divide remains in their capacity to effectively use the Internet (Wilson, 2000).
	www.firstmonday.org /issues/issue7_4/hargittai (5201 words)

	Issue: Digital Divide
		Digital Divide refers to the disparity between social, ethnic, racial, and economic sectors of society that are fully enabled online versus those which have been systematically neglected by the online revolution.
		Here are some resources, including media coverage and links to organizations and related publications about digital divide issues.
		The Clinton Administration's Digital Divide Web site, a comprehensive clearinghouse for information about the Administration's efforts to provide all Americans with access to the Internet and other information technologies that are crucial to their economic growth and personal advancement.
	www.onlinepolicy.org /divide.htm (753 words)

	The Digital Divide 2.0, Competing Involves More Than Just Computing - CBS News
		The digital revolution has leveled the "playing field," Friedman says in his book "The World Is Flat." That means that information is exchanged and business is transacted over transparent borders, and at lightning speed.
		For the past decade, the digital divide has referred to the disparity in technological access due to factors such as economics, race and geography.
		The Digital Divide 1.0 was defined primarily in terms of who has a computer and who is online, and who doesn't and isn't.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/06/09/gentech/main1699023.shtml (702 words)

	Archived--ED Technology Digital Divide
		A follow-up study, released by President Clinton in July 1999, documents that the "digital divide" continues to grow.
		Similar data gathered by the U.S. Department of Education highlights a "digital divide" in our nation’s schools, with children attending high poverty schools less likely to have access to computers, the Internet, or high quality educational technology programs.
		To learn more about how other ED technology programs are helping to bridge the digital divide, go here.
	www.ed.gov /Technology/digdiv.html (599 words)

	Digital Divide Caucus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The House Digital Divide Caucus is a Congressional bi-partisan effort created in response to increasing evidence of a technological divide in American society.
		Members of the House Digital Divide Caucus will work together to bridge the divide by holding open public forums and hear from various policy experts, consumer advocates, and corporate decision makers with the purpose of advocating and crafting public policy approaches to closing this technology gap.
		The challenge to the Members of this caucus is to not only recognize and achieve ways to solve this technology divide, but also to maintain and ensure American dominance in the evolving cyber-economy of the 21st Century.
	www.house.gov /larson/digitaldivide (202 words)

	CJTC — Digital Divide
		The digital divide between immigrants and the native born is widening in the United States, with some immigrant groups
		The causes and consequences of such disparities, as well as one potential solution to the problem, are the focus of Youth, Race, and the Digital Divide.
		The quantitative research on the causes and consequences of the digital divide relies upon sophisticated econometric analyses of large national datasets.
	cjtc.ucsc.edu /digitaldivide.html (722 words)

	digital divide - a definition from Whatis.com
		The term 'digital divide' describes the fact that the world can be divided into people who do and people who don't have access to - and the capability to use - modern information technology, such as the telephone, television, or the Internet.
		The digital divide exists between those in cities and those in rural areas.
		The digital divide also exists between the educated and the uneducated, between economic classes, and, globally, between the more and less industrially developed nations.
	whatis.techtarget.com /definition/0,,sid9_gci214062,00.html (166 words)

	Digital Divide.org - Home
		the Digital Divide emerged as a significant economic and political issue, a vision for how to tap market forces to close the Divide has finally emerged.
		It is extending digital technology successfully to the “next ten percent” of citizens and to the governments that serve them.
		The First Digital Revolution, ending in Silicon Valley’s dot-com bust, poured trillions of dollars into the global economy.
	www.digitaldivide.org (397 words)

	Online NewsHour: Digital Divide -- September 17, 1999
		We’re recognizing that these communities are going to need special, special help if they are going to be brought into the information age and across that digital divide.
		JEFFREY KAYE: Kennard says the digital divide in rural areas could be bridged by wireless technology, such as satellite dishes, now more commonly used for TV reception.
		As for the technological isolation of inner cities, private contributions have allowed many schools and libraries to acquire computer equipment and government officials are seeking to help narrow the digital divide through more private-public partnerships.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/cyberspace/july-dec99/digital_9-17.html (1460 words)

	Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth: Digital Divide Archives
		That lack of digital access "is representative of a much larger problem for a lot of countries where literacy is very low," said Andy Carvin, director of the Digital Divide Network, a global collection of activists and officials focused on extending access to technology.
		The Digital Divide is pretty hard to divide, by itself, but generally speaking I think we could say it has to do with Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), globalization, and a divide in technology usage which affects areas of development.
		It's called The Gap, and it examines how the digital divide, as a policy issue, has fallen off the radar screens of politicians and the media, while marginalized communities continue to be left behind.
	www.andycarvin.com /archives/digital_divide (16396 words)

	Digital Divide
		The digital divide is the gap between people who have access to the Internet and those who do not.
		An exemplary illustration of how the digital divide can be bridged to benefit the rural poor is the Gyandoot Project, where the Internet connected a remote part of India to the government and the services it provides.
		Bridging the digital divide means more than just addressing race and class issues.
	www.cdt.org /egov/handbook/digitaldivide.shtml (528 words)

	Moore's Lore: Digital Divide Archives
		The recent contretemps over Google's Digital Library plan proves that the essential conflict between copyright and connectivity has not been resolved.
		The cure for the Digital Divide is the mobile phone, and the results are so obvious no big subsidies or taxes are needed to make the change happen.
		Its aim was to help poor schools cross the digital divide by subsidizing their access costs.
	mooreslore.corante.com /archives/digital_divide (5017 words)

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