In most cases, state-led efforts combine elements of financial aid in infrastructure, such as the purchase of technological equipment, funding for Internet access in classrooms and public areas and programs that promote computer-literacy training among all segments of society. The significance of this regional digital divide lies in what those numbers imply: if only one in five Latin Americans has access to the Internet, a broad sector of the population is currently denied an important tool to further its participation in civil society.
The alphabet soup of connectivity CAF: Connect America Fund. A new fund the FCC hopes to create to help provide affordable broadband access. It would be funded by restructuring USF and reforming ICC. E911: Enhanced 911. A type of emergency call that can find the location of the wireless user if they are not able to provide it themselves. Usually, multiple towers must be in range to triangulate the position. FCC: The Federal Communications Commission. An independent U.S. government agency charged with regulating interstate and international communications. ICC: Intercarrier Compensation. Fees that companies pay to each other to use each other's networks. mbps: Megabits per second. A measure of data transfer speeds. A megabit is one million bits. NBP: The National Broadband Plan. Congre...
Associated Press When the personal computer revolution began decades ago, Latinos and blacks were much less likely to use one of the marvelous new machines. Then, when the Internet began to change life as we know it, these groups had less access to the Web and slower online connections -- placing them on the wrong side of the "digital divide. Today, as mobile technology puts computers in our pockets, Latinos and blacks are more likely than the general population to access the Web by cellular phones, and they use their phones more often to do more things.
Adoption Gap Remains Along Demographic Lines; Socio-Economic Status Does Not Explain the Entire Gap WASHINGTON, Nov. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Commerce's Economics and Statistics Administration (ESA) and National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today released a report, "Exploring the Digital Nation," that analyzes broadband Internet adoption in the United States. Overall, approximately seven out of 10 households in the United States subscribe to broadband service. The report finds a strong correlation between broadband adoption and socio-economic factors, such as income and education, but says these differences do not explain the entire broadband adoption gap that exists along racial, ethnic and geographic lines. Even after accounting ...
Economic disparities play out in many ways, and one 21st-century issue is access to computers in general and the Internet in particular. Cash-strapped families can't always come up with the money for a computer and broadband service, even in areas where the latter is available. For certain families, an effort announced Wednesday could provide a giant step toward closing what is known as the Digital Divide.
Representing a rural Maine district, I cringe every time I hear the phrase "digital divide." It sounds like a polished, sugar- coated name for something that has decimated rural economies such as mine. People laugh when they hear the sound of dial-up in Hollywood movies; it's clearly a "classic movie." In my area, that sound is very real and ever-present for many constituents still living on that last mile. We have worked for years to revitalize our downtown, invest in our local economy and provide opportunities for our young people to flourish here. Each year, though, it seems there are more people struggling to make ends meet, find work and raise their families in dignity.
The question of paradigm "shift" or paradigm "continuity" in the virtual worlds of controllable and exploitative existence needs to be canvassed. Web 1.0 hubris seems to be augmented by a newer Web 2.0-based propaganda and related, commercial discourses involving the putative "liberating" politico-economic contours of cyberspace. The "democratizing" and "developmental" gradients of the "digital divide," externally and internally, have now been subsumed within a new "politics of fear," a new hegemonic discourse of "terrorism" and "security"-so much so-that echoes of past debates about the profundity of ICT developments and democratic social impacts begin to sound like dystopian subversion. Neoliberal cyberspace, Web 1.0- or Web 2.0-based, is a coercive space fraught with vulnerability an...
The purpose of Comcast's program is to help young people in low-income neighborhoods become computer- and broadband-literate and develop leadership skills that will allow them to become ambassadors and share their knowledge with their families and community. "The Comcast Digital Connectors initiative began with our desire to promote the importance of digital-literacy skills that are necessary for students to realize their potential," said Doug Guthrie, senior vice president of Comcast's Western New England region. Participants will be educated in leadership and diversity, personal development, workforce development, financial literary, community mapping, digital literacy, hardware and networks, software and programming, media production and civic journalism, the environment and sustai...
When the personal computer revolution began decades ago, Latinos and blacks were much less likely to use one of the marvelous new machines. Then, when the Internet began to change life as we know it, these groups had less access to the Web and slower online connections - placing them on the wrong side of the "digital divide. Today, as mobile technology puts computers in our pockets, Latinos and African-Americans are more likely than the general population to access the Web by cellular phones, and they use their phones more often to do more things.
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