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Federal Activities

ITU Launches New Development Initiative to Bridge the Digital Divide, ITU 6/15/2005
Assistant Secretary Michael D. Gallagher spoke on "Promoting Broadband Deployment in Rural America" at the Governor's Agriculture and Rural Renewal Expo, Jackson, MS., NTIA 9/7/2004
UN Meeting of the General Assembly devoted to information and communication technologies for development. [Press Release][List of Speakers 1 and 2][Media Advisory] UNICT Task Force Webpage [Webcast: Archived Video-Morning Meeting/2h43min] [Webcast: Archived Video-Afternoon Meeting/2h37min]
World Telecommunication Development Conference adopts comprehensive Action Plan to bridge the Digital Divide, ITU 4/1/02
FCC COMMISSIONER KEVIN MARTIN ADDRESSES WORLD TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE IN ISTANBUL, TURKEY, "SEIZING DIGITAL OPPORTUNITIES". Commissioner Kevin J. Martin addressed a special session of the 2002 World Telecommunication Development Conference in Istanbul, Turkey on "Bridging the Digital Divide.". News Release. News Media Contact: Emily Willeford at (202) 418-2100 CMMR DOC-220920A1.doc DOC-220920A1.pdf DOC-220920A1.txt, FCC 3/21/02
Telecommunications: Federal and State Universal Service Programs and Challenges to Funding GAO-02-187 February 11 2002, GAO 2/13/02

Statement on GAO report to Markey on Universal Service, February 11, 2002 , House 2/13/02

May 24 The House Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform and Oversight and the Subcommittee on Rural Enterprises, Agriculture and Technology of the Committee on Small Business will hold a joint hearing titled Eliminating the Digital Divide - Who Will Wire Rural America? 10:00 am 2360 RHOB.
ITU Launches a Multi-million Dollar Project to Bridge the Global Digital Divide, ITU 5/21/01
Oct 30-31 Dept of Commerce's Networks for People 2000 Conference
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release April 4, 2000 THE CLINTON-GORE ADMINISTRATION: A NATIONAL CALL TO ACTION TO CLOSE THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
DRAFT PROPOSAL OF THE ADMINISTRATION'S HOME INTERNET ACCESS PROGRAM April 2000

Department of Education, Internet Access in U.S. Public Schools and Classrooms: 1994-1999, January 2000.

House Commerce Committee: Thursday 9/30/99 10:00 a.m. in 2322 Rayburn House Office Building Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection hearing on H.R. 1746, Schools and Libraries Internet Access Act.
In response to Inquiry from Rep. George W. Gekas, Chairman, House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, Commissioner Furchtgott-Roth Concludes that Schools and Libraries Program Likely Violates Recent D.C. Circuit Non-delegation Doctrine Decision, American Trucking v. EPA. 9/17/99 Memo
Press Statement of Commissioner Furchtgott-Roth FCC Again Violates Statutory Mandate By Increasing E-Rate Tax While Delaying Implementation of High-Cost Program.May 27 1999
Daschle Says FCC Chairman Pledges to Help Ensure High-Speed Internet Services Come to Rural America (June 11, 1999)
Senator Dick Armey Letter to Ch Kennard (May 19, 1999)
Ch Kennard Statement that there is enough money to lower phone bills and increase internet access. (May 17, 1999)

NTIA's Falling Through the Net (Digital Divide) Reports

NTIA A NATION ONLINE: How Americans Are Expanding Their Use of the Internet Washington, D.C. February 2002
NTIA: Falling Through the Net II: New Data on the Digital Divide
- NTIA Press Release: NEW COMMERCE REPORT SHOWS DRAMATIC GROWTH IN NUMBER OF AMERICANS CONNECTED TO INTERNET July 8, 1999
NTIA's Digital Divide website (terminated by the Bush Administration)

Digital Opportunities Task Force

Clinton, G-8 Create Digital Opportunity Task Force 24 July 2000

G8 IT Digital Opportunity Task force (dot force)

Final Report of the Digital Opportunity Task Force

Markle Foundation Dot Force Resource Page

Public Voice encouraging input to the DOT Task force

Foundation allots $1 million for Net governance CNET Nov 1999

Volunteers

Volunteerism Online - Trend grows along with access, Broadband Reports 8/28/2006
Internet latest forum for volunteer work, Inside Bay 8/28/2006
UN Online Volunteering Service, UN 8/28/2006

Papers

Financing Information and Communication Infrastructure Needs in the Developing World: Public and Private Roles, World Bank 3/4/2005
Chinn and Fairlie, Econometric Analyses: The Determinants of the Global digital Divide (2004), Yale 3/2/2005
March Warschauer, Technology and Social Inclusion: Rethinking the Digital Divide, MIT Press (2003), 3/2/2005
Policy Reform, Economic Growth, and the Digital Divide:An Econometric Analysis (March 28, 2001), World Bank 2/22/2005
Special Report: Bridging the Digital Divide (2000), World Bank 2/22/2005
Bridging the Digital Divide: How Enterprise Ownership and Foreign Competition Affect Internet Access in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (1999), World Bank 2/22/2005
Heather Hudson, Investing in Infrastructure: Increasing Internet Access in the Developing World, TPRC 10/2/2004
Digital Divide: Where To Go From Here, Kaiser 9/21/2004
Chinn, M. and R. Fairlie. 2004. The Determinants of the Global Digital Divide. Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Exploring the Digital Divide Regional Differences in Patterns of Internet Use in the United States Volume I: Surveying the Divide, U Texas 9/21/2004
Dr. Sharon Strover, Gary Chapman, Dr. Jody Waters , Beyond Community Networking and CTCs: Access, Development and Public Policy, TPRC 9/13/03
Warshauer, M., Technology and social inclusion. Rethinking the digital divide. (The MIT Press 2003).
Heather Hudson, Bridging the Broadband Divide: Strategies for Rural and Developing Regions, TPRC 9/13/03
Karen Mossberger, Caroline J. Tolbert , Race, Place, and Information Technology, TPRC 9/13/03
Benjamin M. Compaine , Revisiting Cost and Affordability Assumptions for High Speed Data Services in Low Population Density Locations, TPRC 9/13/03
Rural technology deployment and access: successes upon which to build, Pages 85-93 Bob Rowe, Govt Info Quarterly 6/16/03
The prospects for broadband deployment in rural America, Pages 95-106 Sharon Strover, Govt Info Quarterly 6/16/03
Creating demand: influencing information technology diffusion in rural communities, Pages 135-150 C. Ann Hollifield and Joseph F. Donnermeyer, Govt Info Quarterly 6/16/03
Keil, M., Meader, G. W., & Kvasny, L.Bridging the Digital Divide: The Story of the Free Internet Initiative in LaGrange, Georgia (2003).
Local governments and universities cooperate to expand broadband telecom services: the broadband regional affiliation for managed planning (B-RAMP) and the Michigan State University site for information and telecommunication experimentation (M-SITE), Pages 167-176 Ronald G. Choura, Ronald K. Siegel, Jr. , Thomas A. Muth and Mark R. Levy, Govt Info Quarterly 6/16/03
Strover, S. The prospects for broadband deployment in rural America. Government Information Quarterly, 20 (2), 95-106. (2003).
The multiple dimensions of the digital divide: more than the technology `haves' and `have nots', Pages 185-191 John Carlo Bertot, Govt Info Quarterly 6/16/03
Exploring the Future of the Digital Divide through Ethnographic Futures Research by Matthew M. Mitchell, First Monday 11/20/02
The Prospects for Broadband Deployment in Rural America, TPRC 9/18/02
Wayne, So What About the "Digital Divide" in K-12 Schools? Educational Technology and Equity in U.S. K-12 Schools, TPRC 9/18/02
Perceptions of Risks, Benefits, and Costs in Community Technology Center Participants' Constructions of Information and Communication Technologies, TPRC 9/18/02
"Spanning the Digital Divide" Bridges.org
Second-Level Digital Divide: Differences in People's Online Skills 2002. First Monday. 7(4) Eszter Hargittai
Does the Digital Divide Still Exist? Bush Administration Shrugs, But Evidence Says "Yes", 5/30/2002, CFA 5/31/02
Stanford University: Digital Divide
National Center for Education Statistics released a new report on Internet Access in US Public Schools and Classrooms 1999-2000 in May 2001
John Horrigan, Cities, Cyberspace, and Social Capital: How Five U.S. Cities Are Adapting to the Internet. Pew Internet and American Life Project, (2001).
Parker, E. Closing the digital divide in rural America. Telecommunications Policy 24 (2001)
Dasgupta, S., S. Lall and D. Wheeler. 2001. “Policy Reform, Economic Growth, and the Digital Divide: An Econometric Analysis.” World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2567. World Bank, Washington, DC.
The Internet and Community Networks: Case Studies of Five U.S. Cities Authors: John B. Horrigan Comments: 29th TPRC Conference
Urban Institute, E-Rate and the Digital Divide: A Preliminary Analysis From the Integrated Studies of Educational Technology, Sept 20, 2000
Ben Compaine, The Digital Divide: Facing a Crisis or Creating a Myth? TPRC 2000
Schools and Libraries Wiring Tangled in Politics, Boardwatch (September 1998)
FCC to Sen. Stevens: No New ISP Tax!, Boardwatch (June 1998).
Hoffman, D., T. Novak and A. Venkatesh, Diversity on the Internet: The relationship of race to access and usage. Investing in diversity: Advancing opportunities for minorities and the media. Report of the Aspen Institute Forum (1998)

Webcasts & Podcasts

W: Bridging the Gender Digital Divide through Training (2004), World Bank 2/22/2005

News

Microsoft opens digital divide conference, CW 4/18/2007
UN, tech leader discuss 'digital divide', America's Network 3/1/2007
Your Guide to the Digital Divide, PBS 1/23/2007
Hispanic and black children lag behind in use of Internet, Star Telegram 9/2/2006
Digital divide separates students, CNN 9/2/2006
Hispanic and black children lag behind in use of Internet, Star Telegram 9/2/2006
Negroponte: Laptop for Every Kid, DDN 11/22/2005
Volunteer call for the tech-savvy, BBC 11/1/2005
Crossing the Digital Divide, emarketer 11/1/2005
Digital Divide Continues To Plague U.S., Newsfactor 11/1/2005
The $100 laptop, Susan Crawford 10/5/2005
Can ICT help to improve social conditions in the world?, ElearningEuropa 7/22/2005
UN task force calls for more political will to bridge 'digital divide', UN 7/8/2005
Bringing the Net to India's masses, IHT 6/15/2005
Digital divide project finds evidence that computers at home improve high school graduation rates, DDN 4/11/2005
Philadelphia expands Wi-Fi citywide, MSNBC 4/8/2005
Group plans to put $100 laptops in hands of poor, Globe and Mail 4/5/2005
Magic Johnson Technology Center, DDN 4/1/2005
Bridging the Digital Divide: Council Pushes for Better Access to Technology in Low-Income Housing, DDN 3/25/2005
Internet Fiesta to give thousands first access to Internet, Tectonic 3/18/2005
Grant to help bridge technology gap, DDN 3/9/2005
Global digital divide 'narrowing', BBC 2/25/2005
Sustaining Community Access to Technology: Who should pay and why!, UNDP 2/22/2005
Bridging the digital divide, UNDP 2/18/2005
Poor left stranded by digital divide, Register 2/15/2005
UN official calls for 'walking-distance' access to communication technologies for every African, UNDP 2/11/2005
South Florida School District Donates Computers to Low-Income Families, DDN 1/4/2005
Rural Digital Divide to be Bridged, DDN 12/21/2004
Reinventing Community Networks as Economic Development Solutions, Lone Eagle 9/10/2004
At $250, a PC That Aims To Connect World's Poor, Ecommerce 8/18/2004
Program Bridges Digital Divide for Urban Poor, Wash Post 8/9/2004
Bridging the global computer divide, BBC 3/15/2004
Deadly Mob Australia: Indigenous mentoring project set up in NT, ABC 2/26/2004
dEadly mOb, DM 2/26/2004
The Digital Dirt Road Divide, Cyberatlas 2/24/2004
growing Demand for Rural Broadband and the Growing Digital Network, ComTechReview 2/18/2004
Addressing Gaps in Internet Content and Access: New Research, Guidelines, and Legislation, ComTechReview 2/18/2004
Rural Areas and the Internet, Pew Internet 2/18/2004
New digital divide pits the more adept against the 'dummies', IHT 2/5/2004
Discord at digital divide talks, BBC 9/29/03
Cut down web for digitally deprived, BBC 7/30/03
Information On-Ramp Crosses a Digital Divide, NY Times 7/8/03
Net equality could be years away, BBC 6/27/03
Wireless Net may aid poor nations, CNN 6/27/03
Digital divide 'hits rural business', BBC 5/9/03
Net spurned by 25% of Americans, BBC 4/17/03
Internet not a necessity for some, CNET 4/17/03
Many Americans Still Aren't Going Online, Wash Post 4/17/03
The Ever-Shifting Internet Population: A new look at Internet access and the digital divide, Pew 4/17/03
Paper: Research note: Across the United States, 85,000 to 144,000 public computing sites, First Monday 4/9/03
Study: 'Digital divide' shrinking, CNN 3/21/03
Study: 'Digital divide' shrinking, CNN 3/21/03
The Blind of Ethiopia Gain Access to ICTs, ITU 3/12/03
Bridging the divide, USA Today 3/5/03
UN panel examines boosting information, communication technologies in Africa, UN 10/1/02
Rural Communities Lay Own Data Pipe for High-Speed Internet, Newsfactor 7/31/02
'Digital Divide' Narrows, Wash Post 7/1/02
U.N. says "digital divide still yawns", CNET 6/20/02
U.N. says "digital divide still yawns", CNET 6/20/02
Report: "Digital divide" still an issue, CNET 5/31/02
Indian children use cyber cafes to get online, Wash Tech 5/22/02
Digital Divide Lives, Wash Tech 4/22/02
Global Telephone Access Improves As Internet Gap Widens, ITU 3/21/02
What digital divide?, CNET 3/13/02
Digital Divisions Split Town And Country, BBC 3/4/02
Virginia City of Bristol to Serve as ISP, Internet News 2/8/02
As Digital Divide Diminishes, E-Commerce Might Not Benefit, Newsfactor 12/18/01
U.N. to combat poverty with technology, CNET 11/23/01
UN launches information technology venture to build 'digital bridges' to world's poor, UN 11/23/01
Brazil plans to install Internet booths in post offices, Nando 11/7/01
Ford Ends Its Employee Computer Giveaway, LATimes 10/22/01
Houston plans to make computing a right, Nando 8/22/01
Houston To Offer All Citizens Free Internet Access, Washtech 8/22/01
Pew Report on Hispanic Use of Internet, Pew 7/27/01
G8 Leaders Endorse Digital Divide Action Plan, IDG 7/24/01
Charity Puts Old Computers To Work, AP 07/10/01
Michael Powell's Mercedes Divide by Larry Irving, Wash Post 7/2/01
CDT, Internews Form Coalition To Fight Digital Divide, Washtech 7/6/01
EU Agrees to Bring Internet to Every Home, Washtech 6/28/01
Report urges world leaders not to ignore digital divide, Newsbytes 6/4/01
G8 Nations Mull Digital Divide Task-Force Report, Washtech 6/4/01
Poor students digitally divided, USAToday 5/11/01
Skilled but stranded grads of digital divide programs, SF Gate 4/23/01
Digital Divide Funds Drying Up, SF Chronicle 4/23/01
Digital Divide Growing For Latin America - Report, Newsbytes 4/16/01
Congressman Vows To Fight Cuts To Tech Grants, Washtech 4/7/01
Bridging The Digital Divide, BBC 3/19/01
Bush Worries Some E-Rate Proponents, NYT 2/28/01
Brazil Thinks Basic To Bridge Digital Divide, NYT 2/12/01
Global Digital Divide Still Exists Jan 24 internet
Third World Threatened By Digital Divide Jan 24 +.shtml boston
Study Predicts End Of Digital Divide Jan 12, 2001 washtech
Europe: Less Users, Greater Divide Than US Nov 24, 2000 nua
Clinton Appoints Three to digital Opportunity Task Force Nov 24, 2000 washtech
Study: Digital Divide Is Disappearing Nov 2, 2000 zdnet

Digital Divide Links

Americans for a Digital Bridge
Benton Foundation Universal Service Library
Bridges.org
Cable in the Classrooms Online Website
Community Technology Centers Network
Connected Nation
Connect Kentucky
Cyber InfoDev (India)
Department of Education ED Technology Digital Divide
Digital Divide Network
Edlink (Education and Library Networks Coalition)
Global Technology Corps (USA)
HUD Neighborhood Networks
International Institute for Communication and Development IICD
ISOC Digital Divide
Massachusetts DTE 1996 Telecommunications Act (Universal Service) Home Page
Media Access Project: Promoting Access to New Media
National Cable and Television Association Cable and Education Web Site (bad link.
National Center for Education Statistics Codes (service control number)
Netaid
One Economy " One Economy is a national non-profit organization created to be a catalyst for innovation and change. We help bring access to technology into the homes of low-income people around the country. We use that technology to connect low-income people to information and tools they can use to build assets and improve their lives."

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