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Many more white children use the Internet than do Hispanic and black students, a reminder that going online is hardly a way of life for everyone.
Broadband in the UK - Elite ForcesJune 2009 review of the dire state of broadband connectivity in the UK.
On the Streets and on Facebook: The Homeless Stay Wiredextra efforts to stay connected by homeless.
Educating Ourselves to Oblivion: Selling Education, Manufacturing Technocrats, Torturing SoulsHardly a week goes by without dire headlines about the failure of the American education system. Our students don't perform well in math and science. The high-school dropout rate is too high. Minority students are falling behind.
The Digital Divide. In the US?President Obama made his first major push for the Web this month when he signed off on the stimulus bill, which includes $7.2 billion to bring high-speed Internet to rural America.
Race And The Web: Going After Niche Markets Or Practicing Digital Segregation?The release of Blackbird, an African American focused web browser sparked quite a bit of controversy this past week.
In Brazil, Internet Access Grows Rapidly, Even Among PoorIn Brazil, the spread of communications technology is proceeding at breakneck speed. Internet usage statistics are breaking records every month. As a result, Brazilian society is changing in ways that have hardly begun to be understood.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Mobiles narrow digital divisionsThe use of mobile phones is shrinking the digital divide between developed and developing nations. Based on the annual Information Economy report by the UN body looks at the way that science and technology can drive long-term economic growth.
The laptop wars WHEN a plan to create a $100 laptop was announced three years ago at the World Economic Forum, it seemed like a stroke of genius.
No substitute for teachers DOES every student really need their own pencil? Surely one pencil between two is enough.
Intel backs wireless Africa planAfrica needs to embrace wireless broadband as a potential solution to the digital divide, the chairman of Intel Craig Barrett has said. "It's cheaper, easier and more efficient to communicate wirelessly," he told the BBC News website.
I recall back in the late 1980s when I first communicated via old DOS-level BBS software with a friend. The other person was in the same city as I, and I could have just as easily picked up the phone and talked on the phone.
A PC for peasant farmers? China targets digital divide. What a neat concept! China is trying to bridge it's urban-rural digital divide by offering robust, cheap PCs to peasant farmers.
Is Digital Media Good for Democracy?Is Digital Media Good for Democracy? Will digital media transform the nature of civic and political engagement? Will it lead to a stronger democracy?
Digital divide in UK grows with web use: Survey finds huge gap between age groupsThe digital divide in Britain is still pronounced despite growing intensity of internet use, a survey has suggested. The Oxford Internet Survey (OxIS) found that with two-thirds of Britons online, the poor, the old and the less educated are still losing out.
Binary America: Split in Two by A Digital Divide: Cost of cyberspace out of reach for manyCHARLESTON, S.C. -- Less than a mile and a half from the Citadel, the site of the Democratic presidential debate tonight, sits Cooper River Courts, a public housing project. Forget the Web. Never mind YouTube, the debate's co-sponsor.
Digital Divide: Digital Biographies61% of the UK population is digitally connected; 39% is digitally excluded. What does it mean to be digitally excluded? And whilst some are excluded, others are sharing their digital biographies with little thought for privacy and future repercussions.
MSU program bridges digital divide for rural studentsLet's just go WIMAX for everyone!
Brazil: Digital Inclusion Competition AnnouncedThe Estado de S. Paulo "blogger" Renato Cruz reports that the Brazilian government is opening a competitive bidding process to supply it with 150,000 "one laptop per child" machines for a pilot project for Brazilian schools.
Rural America Is Being Left off the Information SuperhighwayAlterNet reports, "Verizon's proposed plan of a $2.7 billion transfer of local access lines to FairPoint Communications -- a small, largely nonunion North Carolina firm -- is part of a nationwide trend toward rural telecom redlining."
World Wide DivideGlobalization advocates and internet idealists may talk of a future without borders, but the world's not as connected as people think.
One million OLPC laptop orders confirmedQuanta Computer, the world's largest contract laptop PC manufacturer, already has confirmed orders for one million notebook PCs for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, a company representative said Thursday.
Free Home Internet For Underprivileged PupilsBridging the digital divide or boosting visits to YouTube?
Micro Persuasion: America's New Digital DivideIf you're reading this article, you're probably far to the "tech savvy" side of the digital divide, perhaps even to a point that you're naive about just how wide the divide is.
New Report Skewers Telco Spin on the Digital DivideFrom the article: Why has the United States fallen behind the rest of the world in accessible and affordable broadband service? The answer, according to a report released earlier this month by Free Press, the Consumer Federation of America and Consumers Union, is marketplace fai …
Free Press : World's Digital Divide is Narrowing: Study"The digital divide is narrowing as citizens in emerging markets get online via computers and mobile phones, with some regions now on a par with developed nations, a ranking of Web-savvy nations showed on Wednesday."
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