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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.
www.benton.org
Washington State University Center to Bridge the Digital Divide
Center devoted to equalizing information access and resources. Links to various projects in the Washington state area. Links to pilot programs such as community investment initiative.
cbdd.wsu.edu
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.
www.interconnection.org
London School of Economics Chair for New Media and the Internet
Lecture by Professor Robin Mansell on the role media and networks can play in bridging the digital divide. PDF format.
www.lse.ac.uk
Discusses the meaning of "world" in "worldwide web" and asks what the global network really means.
www.readingonline.org
Women in Global Science and Technology
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.
www.wigsat.org
Very extensive digital divide news portal. Collaboration between OneWorld.net and the Digital Divide Network. Has newsletter.
www.digitalopportunity.org
Living in an e-World: An Information Society for All?
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.
gguillotin.chez.tiscali.fr
BBC News: Bridging the digital divide
BBC News Online concerning the international digital divide. Case studies focus on Burkina Faso, United States, Morocco, nd Mongolia.
news.bbc.co.uk
Beaumont Foundation of America
Grants computers to communities, schools, and individuals to support digital inclusion for underserved individuals.
www.bmtfoundation.com
United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force
UN body set up to deal with the "digital divide" worldwide.
www.unicttaskforce.org
CNET News.com - What digital divide?
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.
news.com.com
International NGO aiming to help people in developing countries use ICT to improve their lives. Has online newsletter.
www.bridges.org
Committee to Democratize Information Technology
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.
www.cdi.org.br
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.
www.comminit.com