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- The domestic digital divide
- The domestic digital divideCanada isn't as bad.....I'm a Canadian living in a rural area... my home has high speed cable.According to http://www.internetworldstats.com/am/ca.htmCanada is a world leader in broadband penetration. We have 85% broadband penetration, and yet we have more rural areas...I wonder, what is it that Canada is doing different...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-13
- Understand E-Rate Funding for K-12 Technology Needs
- Access to technology is a crucial element in providing students with the skills they need in the 21st century. But shrinking budgets make it difficult for many schools to provide that access, creating a digital divide between the haves and the have-nots. This webcast discovers how the school district can...
- Webcasts 2007-12-01
- OLPC revisited - a skeptics view
- OLPC revisited - a skeptics viewSorry, broken recordWe could easily purchase and ship used XP laptops at a lower price than the OLPC - look at the price on eBay (~$200 and then imagine bulk purchasing).Condemning the poor to Linux is preventing them from using the global OS and reducing...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-26
- Digital Inclusion Imperatives Offer Municipalities New Social and Economic Opportunities
- It has been roughly a decade since the term "Digital Divide" was first introduced into national public policy discourse as an issue that materially affects the social, cultural, and economic well-being of the United States. The Digital Divide denotes the gap between information technology haves and have-nots. As mayors, city...
- White papers 2007-06-01
- From the too-good-to-be-altruistic department
- Sure, the digital divide still exists here in the states. It took nearly an act of congress to get my high school moved into the 21st century and were busily updating our curriculum to make use of the new technology. However, in reality, about 3 quarters of US...
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- Short clip: Digital divide is
- City of San Francisco CIO Chris Vein talks about the mayor's goal of providing free access to the Internet and a computer to all San Franciscans.
- Videos 2007-03-20
- Measuring the digital divide: Access or competency?
- How to measure the digital divide? By how many students have Internet access or how many know what to do with that access? Thats the question put forward by a professor in a recent journal article. In an article in The Information Society Journal, Karine Barzilai-Nahon, an...
- Blog posts 2006-10-16
- Sign me up for an Eduwise!
- I know that Intel has great plans for seeding markets in developing nations (err, I mean, bridging the Digital Divide), but their newly announced Eduwise laptop sounds like a darn fine idea for a lot of schools in the states mine included. Although the details on the laptop are still...
- Blog posts 2006-05-10
- What digital divide?
- A funny thing happened on the way to the digital divide. Computers got cheap, schools got technology, and the Internet became a pervasive force. The result, according to the New York Times, is that the so-called digitla divide has largely closed for African- and Hispanic-Americans. According to...
- Blog posts 2006-03-31
- Can open source close the digital divide?
- Can open source close the digital divide?Free newspapers available on every corner..And yet only the tiny minority see any value in them, much like open source software.open or free???I'm not so sure that the two are wed together. I think that we all would benefit from open source...
- Discussion threads 2005-06-27
- Sun owns the word 'share'?
- In an interview this week with News.com, Sun CEO Scott McNealy was asked to define his company's strategy. Here's how he responded: I'll start with the vision. We believe we're moving out of the Ice Age, the Iron Age, the Industrial Age, the Information Age, to the participation age. You...
- Blog posts 2005-06-24
- South Koreans face digital divide
- South Koreans face digital divideWhat digital divide are you people talking about?Less people in the country side go online. So what? they still have access to the internet if they need to.Quick english lesson: (brought to by whatis.com)The term 'digital divide' describes the fact that the world can be divided...
- Discussion threads 2004-08-11
- United Nations ponders Net's future
- United Nations ponders Net's futureInterestingFrom the article: "Dozens of delegates from developing nations echoed Annan's remarks throughout the rest of the day, arguing that their governments do not have a voice in the way the Internet is operated and that more money and investment from richer nations is the only...
- Discussion threads 2004-03-26
- U.N. finds wide digital divide
- U.N. finds wide digital divideThe divide is more than digitalPerhaps the citizens of the countries at the bottom of the list are more concerned with merely eating and surving another day. Internet access does not feed the starving.digital divide correlates to single digit statisticsHEADLINE: US in 10th! No surprise here....
- Discussion threads 2003-11-20
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- Who is a Candidate for Desktop Linux?
- I personally do not fall into the group of people that can easily migrate away from Windows, but that doesn't mean you or someone you know can't make the switch. As I said in earlier post last month, the work that I...
- Blog posts 2009-10-11
- News to know: Twitter DMs; New Neutrality; Zimbra; Dell-Perot; Palm; Foursquare
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Michael Krigsman: Are Twitter direct messages safe? Richard Koman: FCC to announce net neutrality principles ...
- Blog posts 2009-09-22
- News to know: E-readers; Web OS and IT; VMware; Cisco
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Dion Hinchcliffe: How the Web OS has begun to reshape IT and business Oliver Marks: Course Credits as a...
- Blog posts 2009-09-08
- U.S. national broadband strategy: Funding is the elephant in the room
- we don't need big governmentThe broadband has to be build by private businesses and everyone needs to pay to get it.The government should only provide incentives like tax cuts that are deficit neutral.And of courseAnd of course ZDNet is still pushing the crazy idea that broadband everywhere is inevitable. Somehow,...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-14
- Dumb wireless pipe wars: Google Voice coming to BlackBerry, Android
- Dumb wireless pipe wars: Google Voice coming to BlackBerry, AndroidTelcos are traditional 'divide and conquer' enterprisesJust make out that the separate services are actually intrinsically different, and charge accordingly.Worked fine when there were separate wires, but digital exchanges in the 1970s were naturally integrating the actual data paths.Now it is...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-15
- I can't wait for Google Chrome OS
- I can't wait for Google Chrome OSThe BlobWhat is fueling the growth of Linux?: The Cloud.Google tossing their hat into the PC O/S arena is symbolic of a number of things:1) An as of yet unmet need for efficient Client Cloud Devices (notice I didn't use the word Netbook) for...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-08
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