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Access America for Seniors - Department of Commerce Web Site Aimed At Closing Digital Divide
Provides information and links of interest to Seniors.
http://www.seniors.gov/articles/0600/digitaldivide.html
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/debates/divide.htm
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/home.html
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/newsletters/issues/2000/Winter2000/index.html
Demographics: Digital Divide More Economic than Ethnic
Overview of US Demographics of internet use.
http://cyberatlas.internet.com/big_picture/demographics/article/0,1323,5901_395581,00.html
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/
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/library/weekly/aa100399.htm
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/low_income/
Digital Divide Solutions
Information, resources, and links to ways to decrease the digital divide. From the Hispanic Research Center at Arizona State University and The College Board.
http://www.asu.edu/DigitalDivideSolutions
Digital Opportunity Coalition Chicago
docChicago is a regional resource center for digital divide activists, business people, and politicians. docChicago publishes original content as well as providing resources. Also has links to other "digital divide" sites with a focus on Chicago.
http://www.docChicago.net
eChapman Online
Online stock trading with a new focus on emerging US companies owned by women, Latinos, African Americans, and other minorities.
http://www.echapman.com/
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
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
Scott County Learning Center
Technology center based in Waldron, Arkansas, part of the "Designated Neighborhood Network" through the Department of HUD to help bridge the digital divide in Scott County. Has chat room and links to training and job opportunities.
http://www.sclconline.org
Silicon Valley Digital Divide
Silicon Valley Civic Action Network initiative to help bridge the gap. Has links to community and national resources. Seeking volunteers.
http://www.siliconvalleydigitaldivide.net/
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.htm
United Kingdom Statistics Web Site
Latest statistics for Internet access in the UK. In PDF.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/inter0700.pdf
Urban Ed, Inc.
Washington DC area start-up nonprofit organization offering computer science training to community members.
http://www.urbaned.org
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_net.html
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
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/racerelations/msubdigdivide.htm?iam=ask&terms=%22digital+divide%22
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/html/manuscripts/race/science.html
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.html
Facts and Fictions About the Digital Divide
A rigourous analysis of access issues within a North American context.
http://khacker2.freeyellow.com/ddnow6.htm
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
GITA - Government Information Technology Agency - Arizona
http://gita.state.az.us/GITA/telecom/topazpr.htm
Haves, Have-Nots, and Have-to-Haves: Net Effects of the Digital Divide
US focussed Discussion Paper
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/is98/final_papers/Rozner.html
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/carvin.htm
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_divide/
Morino Institute
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.
http://www.morino.org
Municipal Research & Services Center
This site has links to groups and organization concerned with information technology and retraining urban workers, equalizing access, improving access in schools.
http://www.mrsc.org/legal/telecomm/digdiv.htm
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/nnw/nnwindex.html
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/news18.html
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
Plugged In
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.
http://www.pluggedin.org/
Falling Through the Net
National Telecommunications and Information Administration government report on the information technology gap in America. Download in PDF. Has links to fact sheets and charts.
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/digitaldivide/
PowerUP
PowerUP (Power Up) is comprised of nonprofit organizations, major corporations, and federal agencies which have joined together to give underserved youth access to technology and guidance on how to use it.
http://www.powerup.org/
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