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Articles and resources about trends and issues in the digital divide and digital inclusion projects being managed by government.
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- Digital divide: A-T - Archive
- Resources about the digital divide.
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- Digital divide: U-Z - Archive
- Resources about the digital divide.
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- It Is Time for Industry, Government and Consumers To Get Serious About IT Ethics
- by Andrea Di Maio. Gartner, October 4, 2012. "Over the last many years, information technology has been celebrated as a driver of business and social innovation, with an impact which is still not fully realized and has the same scale as previous world-changing inventions such as the steam engine or electricity. Annihilating distance, compressing times, boosting productivity, creating new businesses and business models that were not even imaginable just a one or two decades ago, supporting transparency and democracy, improving public safety, health care, education… and the list goes on.. Some have also looked at the downside of this, as I highlighted in a previous posts. There are three main risk areas: • Digital divide(s) • Loss of human control and oversight • Substitution of human labor leading to permanent unemployment Let's take a look and each one..."
Added: 10 October 2012;
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- By the numbers: addressing a digital divide
- By Phil Dobbie, ZDNet Australia, June 25th, 2012. "We're seeing a growing productivity divide between countries that fully embrace the internet and those who are have yet to. So where does Australia sit?..."
Added: 27 June 2012;
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- Bridging The Digital Divide – From Consumer Data To Consumer Engagement
- by Karl W. Lendenmann, Ph.D. Marketing Land, May 8, 2012. "... results from just-completed research makes it abundantly clear that there is currently a massive 'digital divide' between consumers engaging in real-time across channels, versus the digital marketing industry that is still largely siloed and not executing in real-time. This landmark study, Bridging the Digital Divide, employed a three-tiered digital marketing framework designed to assess and benchmark current execution capabilities, as well as key challenges and priorities of senior decision makers at brand, agency and publishing firms..."
Added: 9 May 2012;
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- Digital Exclusion For Older People Will Continue, Academic Warns
- E-Access Bulletin Live, April 18, 2012. "Today's technologically-skilled young people are likely to face significant web accessibility problems as they grow older, similar to those faced by elderly computer users today, a professor of computing has said..."
Added: 19 April 2012;
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- Digital Divide: From Computer Access to Online Activities - A Micro Data Analysis - in pdf format (2269kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). OECD Digital Economy Papers, No. 189. by Pierre Montagnier, Albrecht Wirthmann. Working Party on Indicators for the Information Society, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 20 December 2011. "This study addresses issues of digital divide among households and individuals by using micro-data analysis of ICT usage patterns. The analysis includes data from 18 European countries, Korea and Canada. Inequalities in computer and Internet use are analysed in a two-step approach. First, the paper tries to better quantify and understand the factors that separate the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots’. Second, it tries to explain observed differences in the frequency and type of Internet use as a result of the socio-economic characteristics of households and individuals..."
Added: 31 January 2012;
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- Why Open Data Alone Is Not Enough
- By Jesse Lichtenstein. Wired Magazine, June 28, 2011. "If you care about transparency, these are interesting times. WikiLeaks may have faded from the headlines, but growing numbers of people accept the notion that information collected by and about the government should be online, searchable, and mashable. At least 16 nations have major open data initiatives; in many more, pressure is building for them to follow suit..."
Added: 27 July 2011;
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- United Nations: Disconnecting People From the Internet Is a Violation of Human Rights
- by Stan Schroeder. Mashable, 6 June 2011. "The United Nations has declared Internet access a human right, and disconnecting people from it is against international law. The recent UN report explores the issues of Internet access in great detail, both on the infrastructural level and as a matter of access to content..."
Added: 14 June 2011;
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- Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Frank La Rue - in pdf format (140kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). United Nations General Assembly, 16 May 2011 A/HRC/17/27 - Human Rights Council, Seventeenth session, Agenda item 3 - Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development. "This report explores key trends and challenges to the right of all individuals to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds through the Internet. The Special Rapporteur underscores the unique and transformative nature of the Internet not only to enable individuals to exercise their right to freedom of opinion and expression, but also a range of other human rights, and to promote the progress of society as a whole ..."
Added: 14 June 2011;
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- Creating Local Online Hubs: Three Models for Action - in pdf format (753kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). A White Paper on Recommendation 15 of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy, written by Adam Thierer. The Aspen Institute, Communications and Society Program, 2011. "... The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy (Knight Commission) recommended that every local community have at least one high-quality online hub to help meet community information needs. While the Commission recognized that 'it is not possible for any one Web site to aggregate all of the online information local residents want and need,' it believed that 'communities should have at least one well-publicized portal that points to the full array of local information resources'. This paper outlines how local online hubs currently work, what their core ingredients are, and what it will take to bring more of them to communities across America. This analysis makes three simplifying assumptions. First, while newer developments have supplanted the “portal” concept—namely, online search and social media—there is still something to be said for websites that can help to aggregate attention, highlight important civic information and activities and map public information resources. Second, it continues to make sense to focus on geographic communities for the reasons the Informing Communities report made clear: they are the physical places where people live and work and also elect their leaders. Third, the government’s role in creating high-quality online hubs will likely be quite limited and primarily focused on (a) opening up its own data and processes and (b) some limited funding at the margins for other local initiatives ..."
Added: 1 March 2011;
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- Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age - in pdf format (1381kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy. Washington, D.C.: The Aspen Institute, October 2009. "... The Commission believes that achieving its vision of informed communities requires pursuing three fundamental objectives: Maximizing the availability of relevant and credible information to communities. The availability of relevant and credible information implies creation, distribution, and preservation. Information flow improves when people have not only direct access to information, but the benefit also of credible intermediaries to help discover, gather, compare, contextualize, and share information. Strengthening the capacity of individuals to engage with information. This includes the ability to communicate one’s information, creations and views to others. Attending to capacity means that people have access to the tools they need and opportunities to develop their skills to use those tools effectively as both producers and consumers of information. Promoting individual engagement with information and the public life of the community. Promoting engagement means generating opportunities and motivation for involvement. Citizens should have the capacity, both individually and in groups, to help shoulder responsibility for community self-governance..."
Added: 1 March 2011;
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- 'Participation partition' the newest facet of the digital divide, warns Gruen
- by Alex Howard. GovFresh, September 16, 2010. "Disparities in access to the Internet have been persistent since the scratchy sounds of a modem were first heard in offices, basements and schools. In recent years, the digital divide has grown to encompass smartphones usage, differentiation of broadband Internet and open data's role in empowering the empowered..."
Added: 17 September 2010;
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- Digital economy rankings 2010: Beyond e-readiness - EIU Report
- The Economist Intelligence Unit Limited, Written in co-operation with The IBM Institute for Business Value, June 2010. "This year begins the second decade of the Economist Intelligence Unit's annual benchmarking study of countries' digital development, previously known as the 'e-readiness rankings'. Given the prevalence of Internet-connected consumers, businesses and governments, and the indispensable role that digital communications and services now play in most of the world's economies, we believe that the countries in our study have achieved, to one degree or another, a state of e-readiness. The study's new title, the 'digital economy rankings', captures the challenge of maximising the use of information and communications technology (ICT) that countries face in the years ahead..."
Added: 22 July 2010;
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- What Does Digital Divide Mean to Gov 2.0?
- by Alan W. Silberberg. The Huffington Post, June 7, 2010. "... More and more people who don't have the basics are being left out. What would the basics be actually? 1. Cellular or Wireless Phone. 2. Easy Internet Access. 3. Hopefully, a working computer..."
Added: 8 June 2010;
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- Making Sense of Gov 2.0 Strategies: 'No Citizens, No Party'
- by Enrico Ferro, Francesco Molinari. JeDEM - eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government, Vol 2, No 1 (2010). "... In this paper, we contend that the presence of a considerable variance in terms of political interests, educational level and technological skills makes it very difficult to design workable and effective systems to support participation. A modular strategy is then recommended requiring policy designers to make a step towards citizens rather than expecting the citizenry to move their content production activity onto the 'official' spaces created for ad hoc participation..."
Added: 3 June 2010;
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- ADB urges developing govts to engage private sector
- By Robin Hicks. FutureGov, 4 May 2010. "The Asian Development Bank has called on governments in developing countries to create more opportunities for the private sector to 'turn the digital divide into a digital opportunity' to aid the fight against poverty..."
Added: 6 May 2010;
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