- Benton Foundation - http://www.benton.org/
Works with other groups such as National Urban League, AOL, National Endowment for the Arts to help provide solutions for bridging the digital divide. Links to various foundations including Ford, Kellogg. Offers free on-line versions of reports dealing with technology and access.
- InterConnection - http://www.interconnection.org
A non-profit group that donates web sites and Internet hosting to organizations dedicated to benefiting the local community or environment to help eliminate the digital divide.
- How Worldwide Is the Web? - http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/jaal/Feb_Column.html
Discusses the meaning of "world" in "worldwide web" and asks what the global network really means.
- Women in Global Science and Technology - http://www.wigsat.org/
The main theme of this organization is empowering women through technology. The focus is global and there is an international bibliography (dated 1997, but still useful) on issues concerning gender equity in technology.
- Digital Opportunity Channel - http://www.digitalopportunity.org
Very extensive digital divide news portal. Collaboration between OneWorld.net and the Digital Divide Network. Has newsletter.
- World Economic Forum - Digital Divide - http://www.weforum.org/digitaldivide
Information on the WEF task force, which was designed as a platform for discussion, coordination and development of digital divide projects. The task force brings together high-calibre representatives from the public and private sectors as well as civil society.
- Living in an e-World: An Information Society for All? - http://gguillotin.chez.tiscali.fr/digital_divide_and_information_society.htm
Explaining the Digital Divide, the exclusion of those left aside the Information Society Development by comparing projects in France & Estonia to involve all in the use of Internet.
- BBC News: Bridging the digital divide - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1999/10/99/information_rich_information_poor/466651.stm
BBC News Online concerning the international digital divide. Case studies focus on Burkina Faso, United States, Morocco, nd Mongolia.
- Beaumont Foundation of America - http://www.bmtfoundation.com/
Grants computers to communities, schools, and individuals to support digital inclusion for underserved individuals.
- CNET News.com - What digital divide? - http://news.com.com/2010-1071-858537.html
Pacific Research Institute director Sonia Arrison says that rhetoric notwithstanding, the digital divide is not a crisis and is certainly not destined to become the civil liberties issue of the 21st century.
- Bridges.org - http://www.bridges.org
International NGO aiming to help people in developing countries use ICT to improve their lives. Has online newsletter.
- Committee to Democratize Information Technology - http://www.cdi.org.br/
Based in Brazil, this organization's slogan is "Say No to the Digital Apartheid." The organization works with and seeks partnerships with industry in provide equal access in all the school. In English and Portuguese.
- The Communications Initiative - http://www.comminit.com/index.html
This is one of quite a few major Portals aimed at this type of "Digital Divide" issue. It is supported by major research organisations in this field such as the Canadian Development Agency, and by large content providers such as the BBC.
- Computers for Africa - bridging the digital divide - http://www.computers4africa.org/
Computers for Africa refurbishes and ships used computers to organizations in East Africa. We work to bridge the digital divide, focusing on women and youth groups and organizations working for social development.
- Digital Dividend - http://www.digitaldividend.org/
Explores sustainable business models for bridging the global digital divide. Its Project Clearinghouse is a database of nearly 700 digitally-enabled social enterprises in developing countries.
- International Community Telecentre Resources Website - http://www.unesco.org/webworld/build_info/gct/index.shtml
Aimed at facilitating networking among community telecentres worldwide, through the sharing of information, experiences and resources related to practical telecentre implementation and management.
- The Internet and Rural Development - http://www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/sustdev/CDdirect/CDDO/contents.htm
This FAO report outlines the elements of a communication for development approach applied to the problems of rural development.
- KITE, Inc. - http://www.kiteinc.org/
Non-profit organization seeking to narrow the digital divide on a global scale by giving grants of hardware, software, and technical training to organizations in the Third World.
- M.S. Swaminath Research Foundation - http://www.mssrf.org/
This is a research Foundation working in India on the issues of access to communications for poor village communities. They are particularly interested in supporting content generation at a local level, to ensure that localy relevant information is available on the web for these communities, in a language they can understand.
- OneWorld.net Digital Divide Campaign - http://www.oneworld.net/campaigns/digitaldivide
Latest news, background on the issues, links and action on the global digital divide from the OneWorld Network of NGOs working worldwide in sustainable development and human rights.
- Solve Poverty - You Can Help Solve Poverty - http://www.solvepoverty.com
Two organizations, Opportunity International and Hyperstudy.com Pty Ltd, working to provide small loans, on-line education and other resources to the economically disadvantaged. Lots of on-site links to other poverty related issues and services. Click and give site.
- VERCON Communications for Agriculture - http://www.fao.org/sd/2001/KN1007_en.htm
VERCON is the virtual extension work project run by the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation) This is a full description of the project.
- World Computer Literacy - http://www.worldcomputerliteracy.net/
December 2, 2001, marks the first World Computer Literacy Day. Over 27 countries are participating in this event to bring technology to those who do not have it. Based in India.
- World e_inclusion - http://www.hp.com/e-inclusion/
Hewlett Packard's site to assist the rural poor in bridging the digital divide.
- Challenging the Digital Divide - http://www.flexibility.co.uk/issues/debates/divide.htm
Many people, mostly those already poor or socially disadvantaged in some other way, cannot or do not have access to new technologies and the opportunities they bring. These people stand on the wrong side of the "digital divide."
- Digital Divide - http://www.pbs.org/digitaldivide/
Information on public television's two part series on the Digital Divide. Links to various sites concerning the digital divide and race, gender, and education. Also has links for educators to learn more about the issue and to implement new strategies in the classroom.
- The Digital Divide - http://adulted.about.com/education/adulted/library/weekly/aa100399.htm
From about.com. Article on adult learning and the digital divide. Links to other articles including the digital divide and race relations.
- Digital Divide - Race Relations - Net Links - http://racerelations.about.com/newsissues/racerelations/msubdigdivide.htm?iam=ask&terms=%22digital+divide%22
Links concerning race and information technology. Also has links to sites on other gender and race issues.
- Digital Divide Solutions - http://www.asu.edu/DigitalDivideSolutions
Information, resources, and links to ways to decrease the digital divide. From the Hispanic Research Center at Arizona State University and The College Board.
- Digital Divide's New Frontier - http://www.childrenspartnership.org/pub/low_income/
Audit/analysis of online opportunities and information for low income persons. Many links to information. Download in PDF.
- eChapman Online - http://www.echapman.com/
Online stock trading with a new focus on emerging US companies owned by women, Latinos, African Americans, and other minorities.
- An Educator's Guide to Access Issues - http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/wp/access/index.html
In order to meet the needs of students in today's world, access to technologies must be equally available to all students. Accessibility issues include social, economic, and educational status, gender, funding, hearing, visual, and other physical disabilities.
- Info Today - http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/Jan00/carvin.htm
Article by Andy Carvin of the Benton Foundation arguing that the digital divide is the civil rights issue of the next century.
- Morino Institute - http://www.morino.org
A nonprofit organization whose mission includes closing social divides and understanding the relationship and impact of the Internet on (US)society. Easily accessible site with good resources.
- Municipal Research & Services Center - http://www.mrsc.org/legal/telecomm/digdiv.htm
This site has links to groups and organization concerned with information technology and retraining urban workers, equalizing access, improving access in schools.
- Neighborhood Networks - http://www.hud.gov/nnw/nnwindex.html
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) site dedicated to fostering technology growth and bridging the digital divide. Information on how to create and sustain a neighborhood network, including funding sources.
- News: Report: Money, not Race, Underlies Digital Divide - http://www.computeruser.com/news/00/06/19/news18.html
Money, not race, is a deciding factor in determining from which side of the digital divide a person will view the future, according to Jupiter Communications, Inc.
- OpNet - http://www.opnetwork.org
A non-profit organization working to bridge the digital divide by training young people to do web design. Provides economic opportunity through on-line job postings and internships. Based in San Francisco.
- Plugged In - http://www.pluggedin.org/
An organization in East Palo Alto, CA, offers training for young people, assists community organizations in getting on-line and offers computer access for the entire community.
- Rhayader Telecentre - http://www.rcs.telecentres.com
Support service to help bridge the digital divide for those without access to information technologies in rural Wales.
- San Diego Futures Foundation - http://www.sdfutures.org
The San Diego Futures Foundation provides computer technology and services to nonprofit organizations and schools to help bridge the digital divide in San Diego County.
- Urban Ed, Inc. - http://www.urbaned.org
Washington DC area start-up nonprofit organization offering computer science training to community members.
- Falling Through the Net - http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/digitaldivide/
National Telecommunications and Information Administration government report on the information technology gap in America. Download in PDF. Has links to fact sheets and charts.
- Digital Divide Network - http://www.digitaldivide.net/
Provides links to and information about research, data, resources, and grants available on the topic of inequitable access.
- Computers for Learning - http://www.computers-for-learning.org/
Texas organization refurbishes donated computers from businesses and gives them to kids to use at home. Good layout of how to do this in your area.
- The Journal of Community Informatics - http://ci-journal.net/
Peer reviewed articles about community informatics and the impact of information and communications technology on community development.
- F2C: Freedom to Connect - http://freedom-to-connect.net/
Organization/movement working under two assumptions. First, if some connectivity is good, then more connectivity is better. Second, if a connection that does one thing is good, then a connection that can do many things is better.
- Bridge The Digital Divide - http://www.bridgethedigitaldivide.com/
An effort of bridging the digital divide between the developed world and the developing world. CNET Networks International Media has partnered with UK charity Computer Aid International to work on this.
- Childnet Academy - http://www.childnetacademy.org/
Highlights and rewards young people who are developing outstanding, innovative online projects which directly benefit other children worldwide. [English/French/Spanish]
- Digital Right - http://www.digitalright.org/
Organization which aims to spread the adoption of Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) to improve the information and communication technology (ICT) capacity of developing countries.
- Heads On Fire - http://www.headsonfire.org/
An organization working to bridge the Digital Divide through community-based media arts programs.
- The Incommunicado Project - http://www.incommunicado.info/
A web research resource combined with an email-based mailing list covering network(ed) ecologies, ICT for development, internet governance, analyses of the NGO sector, and emerging South-South relations.
- Seniornet - http://www.seniornet.org/
US organization offering computer education for senior citizens at many locations.
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