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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Articulates a public interest vision for the digital age and demonstrates the value of communications for solving social problems by promoting a vision and policy alternatives for the digital age.
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.
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.
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."
Journal article by Barbara Crump and Andrea McIlroy. This paper asks the question, why, when computing is available in a socially situated, convenient environment, at no cost, do people choose not to compute?
Paper by Michael Gurstein examines the concepts and strategies underlying the notion of the Digital Divide and concludes that it is little more than a marketing campaign for Internet service providers.
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.
Explaining the Digital Divide, the exclusion of those left aside the Information Society Development by comparing projects in France and Estonia to involve all in the use of Internet.
Information on the preparatory process and the two phases in Geneva (December 2003) and Tunis (November 2005). Organized by the UN agency International Telecommunication Union (ITU).