Digital Divide

last modified: May 5, 2004
The "Digital Divide":
People with money have access to computers and information, while "poor" people will become more isolated, due to their lack of access.

http://www.pbs.org/digitaldivide/ -- educational (public TV)

http://www.digitaldivide.gov/ - by the UnitedStates Commerce Department (also http://www.aasa.dshs.wa.gov/access/waddell.htm and http://www.ed.gov/Technology/digdiv.html)

http://www.digitaldivide.org/

http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org/ -- relative to people with disabilities

http://www2000.ogsm.vanderbilt.edu/papers/race/science.html -- relative to race


How about a dissenting view? http://reason.com/bi/d-divide.shtml Or see AlgorithmsInAfrica


The divide is like a lot of technology. Where ever AdvancedTechnology goes, there will exist the beginnings where the non-technological reside. We can have the InternationalSpaceLaboratory while children starve. This is the state of HumanLife. KennethGordonStephens


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