Posts tagged: Digital Divide
Digital Divide Details
Access to the Internet in the USA is unfortunately highly related to class, geography and race. It's time to close the digital divide.
Which organizations are addressing training, once people have access?
Are there any organizations that are addressing the learning needs of people who are just getting on the Internet? Are there collections of training materials, pools of instructors to help people develop basic skills of using a mouse, exploring the Internet, using email and forums?
Who can speak up for Rural America in Washington?
Rural groups all over the country are excited by the budget allocated for broadband access. We are meeting with legislators, writing letters, planning summit meetings, assembling grant writers and gathering supportive documentation.
Empowering the Next Generation of Leaders
The issue of 'access' to internet is extremely important for us at Youth Noise. We are primarily an online entity and we use our website to inspire dialogue, action, and localized campaigns around causes that our users create and engage within.
We have great user-generated content coming from all corners of the US and some internationally.
Change or Cha-Ching
Change has come to America. Well, sort of.
On "K" Street - home to Washington's most powerful corporate lobbyists - it's business as usual.
Nowhere is this more evident than in the scrum of lobbyists gathering around President Obama's economic stimulus package.
Free Wireless Helps One Family in LA
InternetforEveryone.org visited with the Quintero family in Los Angeles to hear how free wireless opened one working class family's "window to the world."
Obama's Democracy Stimulus
President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday delivered his first major speech of the new year, pledging to "put the American Dream within reach of the American people."
A core component of Obama's economic recovery plan is "expanding broadband lines across America" to give everyone the chance to get online.
Solving Access from the Bottom Up
There is a difference between available and accessible. In New York City, practically every household has at least one option for moderate-speed Internet service. Most have two: Time Warner and Cablevision connect to 98% of households and Verizon offers DSL to 87%.
Yet less than half of the city purchases the service. Broadband adoption rates in the Bronx rival those in rural America.
Access Is Our Civil Right
Like many people in the working class black neighborhood of West Oakland, CA where I live, I use the internet to search for information, check the news, pay bills, manage services, find entertainment and cultural events, and connect with friends and family. But unlike many of my neighbors I have wireless internet access that works at high speeds and costs almost $50.00 a month.
Making Cellular Phones an Open Platform
For the rest of the world, open wireless networks are the key to getting new people online.
