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Digital Inclusion and Digital Divide - United States
Articles and resources about trends and issues in the digital divide and digital inclusion projects being managed by government in the United States.
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- FCC Cites Broadband Gaps: Digital Divide Persists
- by Kenneth Corbin. CIO, 22 August, 2012. "... Internet service providers have made significant progress in expanding their network footprints to deliver broadband service to a larger swath of the population, but significant gaps in coverage and adoption persist, according to a new report from the Federal Communications Commission. The report is the FCC's eighth survey of the broadband landscape, a task it was given in the 1996 Telecommunications Act, which directed the agency to assess whether broadband "is being deployed to all Americans in a reasonable and timely fashion." Despite the progress that the commission observed in many sectors of the industry, the report concluded that the current rate of broadband deployment fails to meet the "reasonable and timely" criteria..."
Added: 23 August 2012;
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- Connect2Compete Program To Help Expand Web Access For Low-Income Families
- Connect2Compete, News Release, 19 June 2012. "In less than a year, low-income families will have access to the information superhighway for less than $10 a month through a new public-private partnership involving Time Warner Cable, NY1's parent company. NY1's Elizabeth Kaledin filed the following report. Surfing the Internet is something that most Americans do almost every day. But for as many as 100 million in the United States, accessing the World Wide Web at home is something that they cannot do because of cost. So Connect2Compete, a public-private partnership between the Federal Communications Commission and many of the nation's cable providers, will provide home broadband service for $9.95 to families with a child participating in the federal free lunch program..."
Added: 18 July 2012;
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- Broadband program adds more digital literacy training
- The U.S. Department of Labor joins the Connect2Compete broadband program, by Grant Gross (IDG News Service). CIO, 16 July, 2012. "A nonprofit program focused on making broadband available to low-income U.S. residents has added a job-training partner to its roster and will increase its focus on using broadband to train and search for jobs, officials announced Monday..."
Added: 18 July 2012;
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- Pew: 20% of U.S. Adults Don't Use Internet
- Problematic broadband gap for the administration's push for broadband-centric government services, By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 13 April 2012. "... If that figure is right, it is a problematic broadband gap for the administration's push for broadband-centric government services, businesses, education, health and energy monitoring, entertainment and just about everything else currently done with bricks and mortar..."
Added: 17 April 2012;
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- Digital differences - Report
- by Kathryn Zickuhr, Aaron Smith. Pew Internet and American Life Project, April 13, 2012. "When the Pew Internet Project first began writing about the role of the internet in American life in 2000, there were stark differences between those who were using the internet and those who were not. Today, differences in internet access still exist among different demographic groups, especially when it comes to access to high-speed broadband at home. Among the main findings about the state of digital access: One in five American adults does not use the internet. Senior citizens, those who prefer to take our interviews in Spanish rather than English, adults with less than a high school education, and those living in households earning less than $30,000 per year are the least likely adults to have internet access. Among adults who do not use the internet, almost half have told us that the main reason they don’t go online is because they don't think the internet is relevant to them..."
Added: 17 April 2012;
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- Digital Literacy portal
- Provided by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce. "This is the destination for digital literacy resources and collaboration. Use it to share and enhance the tools necessary to learn computer and Internet skills needed in today’s global work environment..."
Added: 27 May 2011;
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- Digital Divide Still Present in Washington, D.C., Broadband Map Shows
- Government Technology, March 10, 2011. "Washington, D.C., continues to deal with a 'stark digital divide' within the city, a problem highlighted again in a broadband adoption map released Wednesday, March 9. The online map found that the average broadband wireline adoption rate for Washington, D.C;s population in 2009 was 65.3 percent..."
Added: 11 March 2011;
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- DC Community Broadband Summit Digital Divide
- Washington DC - Office of the Chief Technology Officer. "The Government of the District of Columbia is taking significant steps in bridging our digital divide... The Community Broadband Summit will increase awareness of the efforts of governments and the business/nonprofit communities are making to increase computer literacy and universal internet access..."
Added: 9 December 2010;
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- Washington, D.C. publishes its first digital divide strategy
- by Alex Howard. GovFresh, December 8, 2010. "The digital divide in D.C. is an issue that has been receiving increased sunlight under the District's chief technology officer, Bryan Sivak. As the Kojo Nnamdi Show episode on the D.C. digital divide reported, 'a 2009 study by the OCTO found that the digital divide runs very deep in the city – 90% of residents in Northwest D.C. have high-speed internet access in their homes, but in Southeast, that figure falls to just 36% – 40%.'..."
Added: 9 December 2010;
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- Exploring the Digital Nation: Home Broadband Internet Adoption in the United States - in pdf format (4374kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Exploring the Digital Nation: Home Broadband Internet Adoption in the United States, Prepared by Economics and Statistics Administration and National Telecommunications and Information Administration the U.S. Department of Commerce, November 2010. "... This report presents the most accurate statistical profile of U.S. broadband Internet adoption currently available. The report features new analysis of 'adoption gaps,' i.e., the differences in average broadband Internet adoption at home among different groups after controlling for demographic and geographic factors. There are certain groups in the population that have lower adoption rates even after taking account of differences that typically affect broadband usage..."
Added: 9 November 2010;
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- Dirt Roads and the Digital Divide
- By John Pulley. NextGov, 27 April 2010. "Rural areas of the country that have some of the highest rates of chronic disease are far less likely than urban areas to benefit from health information technology. It's not just a dearth of electronic health records. In many cases, rural health care providers don't have access to reliable broadband..."
Added: 28 April 2010;
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- The Economic Impact of Digital Exclusion - in pdf format (330kb)
- Prepared by The Digital Impact Group and Econsult Corporation, March 5, 2010. (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). "In the US, over 100 million individuals representing over 40 million households do not use broadband because they cannot access it, cannot afford it, do not know how to use it, or are not aware of its benefits. This 'digital divide' is costly not only for the digitally excluded but for businesses, government, and the nation as a whole. In response, the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) called on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to issue to Congress a National Broadband Plan, which 'shall seek to ensure that all people of the US have access to broadband capability and shall establish benchmarks for meeting that goal'. In support of this effort, Digital Impact Group and Econsult Corporation have produced this assessment of the economic impact of digital exclusion..."
Added: 10 March 2010;
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- The Cost of Digital Exclusion
- by Brian David - Adoption and Usage Director, Omnibus Broadband Initiative. Federal Communications commission - Broadband.gov, March 9, 2010. "... A new report prepared by the Digital Impact Group and Econsult Corporation (DIG/EC) adds to the discussion by attempting to quantify the economic impacts associated with digital exclusion. The DIG/EC report, The Economic Impact of Digital Exclusion, finds that the aggregate costs of having one-third of the nation without broadband access comes to $55 billion per year when looking across 11 areas of impact (e.g., health, education, economic opportunity)..."
Added: 10 March 2010;
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- Barriers to Broadband Adoption - in pdf format (1723kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). A Report to the Federal Communications Commission, The Advanced Communications Law & Policy Institute, New York Law School, October 2009. "... This Report focuses on two demographic groups – Senior Citizens and People with Disabilities – and on four sectors of the economy – Telemedicine, Energy, Education and Government – that stand to benefit greatly from more robust utilization of broadband but, for the reasons discussed herein, face a number barriers to further adoption of broadband and broadband-enabled technologies..."
Added: 27 October 2009;
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- On the Street and On Facebook: The Homeless Stay Wired
- Mr. Pitts Lacks a Mailing Address But He's Got a Computer and a Web Forum, By Phred Dvorak. The Wall Street Journal, May 30, 2009. "... New York City has put 42 computers in five of the nine shelters it operates and plans to wire the other four this year. Roughly half of another 190 shelters in the city offer computer access. The executive director of a San Francisco nonprofit group, Central City Hospitality House, estimates that half the visitors to its new eight-computer drop-in center are homeless; demand for computer time is so great that users are limited to 30 minutes..."
Added: 1 June 2009;
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This category last updated: 23 August 2012
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