| # | Jurisdiction (state, local or fed.) | Agency or Organization | Title | Number Pages | Summary | Date | Contact Person | Phone / Address / Web site / e-mail | |
| 1 | US | Fed. | U.S. Department of Commerce | Falling Through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide | 108 | A Report on the Telecommunications and Information Technology Gap in America. While telephone penetration rates have stabilized, the traditional "have nots" are still less likely to have a telephone than other households. The patterns for computer ownersh | 07/01/99 | NTIA's Office of Public Affairs | (202) 482-7002 http://www.ntia.doc.gov |
| 2 | US | Fed. | Benton Foundation | Losing Ground Bit by Bit: Low-Income Communities in the Information Age | 40 | The report examines the technology gap in low-income communities; assesses what barriers are slowing the spread of new technologies to the undeserved, describes the most promising efforts to produce a more equitable distribution, and analyzes the reasons | 06/01/99 | Susal Goslee, Chris Conte | Benton Foundation |
| 3 | IN | State | School of Library and Information Science, IU | Web-Based Community Networks: A Study of Information Organization and Access | 16 | The paper reports a subset of the results a research project designed to assess the current state of state-funded community networking in Indiana. It explores the organization of information resources and services provided by 24 web-based community networ | 07/01/99 | Howard Rosenbaum | hrosenba@indiana.edu Phone: 812.855.3250 Fax: 812.855.6166 http://memex.lib.indiana.edu/hrosenba/www/Papers/asis982.html |
| 4 | US | Fed. | Benton Foundation | The Digital Beat | 7 | The paper focuses on the public interest issues raised by the proposed merger of SBC andd Ameritech. Since every merger thus far has made it more difficult to get services for the poor as prices rise and competition is stifled, this paper summarizes the p | 07/01/99 | Veronica Breckheimer, Kelvin Taglang | http://www.benton.org/DigitalBeat/db072199.html |
| 5 | US | Fed. | Benton Foundation | Digital Voices: Building Better Nets | 5 | Online editorial service of the Benton Foundation's Communications Policy & Practice Program (includes debates on the public interest use of communications media). Upon the publication of the U.S. Dept. of Commerce report, public interest advocates and ot | 07/01/99 | Kevin Taglang | kevin@benton.org http://www.benton.org/DigitalVoices/ |
| 6 | US | Fed. | Benton Foundation | Digital Voices: E-Rate- Don't Let the Flame Expire | 5 | Online editorial service of the Benton Foundation's Communications Policy & Practice Program. Having completed one funding cycle, committing, as of February 1999, $1.66 billion to reimburse telecommunications vendors for services to be delivered to school | 07/01/99 | Kevin Taglang | kevin@benton.org http://www.benton.org/DigitalVoices/ |
| 7 | US | Fed. | Internet Public Policy Network | Internet Public Policy Network | 2 | Digital divide statistics | 07/22/99 | http://www.internetpublicpolicy.com/digdiv.cfm | |
| 8 | US | Wired News | NAACP, AT&T Talk Net Literacy | 2 | The NAACP and AT&T will create "technology centers" in 20 different states to promote computer and Internet literacy. AT&T will donate US$300,000 to the NAACP so the group can outfit its existing offices in several cities. | 07/13/99 | Oscar Cisneros | oscar@wired.com; http://www.wired.com/news/print_version/ business/story/20701.html?wnpg=all | |
| 9 | US | Washington Post | Computer Void Limits Working Poor, Study Finds | 2 | While many companies are posting job opportunities on the Internet and are requesting that job applicants submit their resumes via e-mail, a new study finds that less than half of the working poor have access to the Internet or a computer. More than 80% o | 07/22/99 | Kristin Downey Grimsley | http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/feed/a34910-1999jul22.htm | |
| 10 | US | Community Technology Centers Network (CTCNet) | Findings From a National Survey of Users of Community Technology Centers | This report describes results from a survey of 817 people, ages 13 to 91, at 44 community-based technology centers affiliated with the CTCNet. CTCNet affiliates include libraries, youth organizations, multiservi ce agencies, stand-alone computing centers, | 07/01/98 | Clifton Chow, Jan Ellis, June Mark, Bart Wise | phone: (617) 969-7100 x2727 http://www.ctcnet.org/impact98.htm | ||
| 11 | US | Connumity Networking Movement | New Community Networks - Wired for Change | List of community networks (sometimes called civic networks, Free-Nets, community computing-centers, or public access networks) that are intended to advance social goals, such as building economic opportunities in disadvantaged communities. A community n | 06/01/99 | douglas@scn.org | http://www.scn.org/ip/commnet/home.html | ||
| 12 | US | Fed. | Benton Foundation | The Digital Divide and the US Hispanic Population | 7 | This Digital Beat focuses on one underserved minority group, Hispanics, and explores some of the concepts and definitions related to how we as a society are beginning to define the digital divide. Defining the digital divide as an important civil rights i | 08/06/99 | Debbie Becht, Kevin Taglang, Anthony Wilhelm | http://www.benton.org/DigitalBeat/db080699.html |
| 13 | US | TomAs Rivera Policy Institute | Challenges to bridging the digital divide: Building better on ramps to the information highway | 3 | This report is based on extensive research including national and regional dialogs as well as site visits to programs in five metropolitan areas - Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Houston and Miami. The Digital Steppingstones researchers identified challen | Paula Y. Bagasao, Elsa Macias, Sara Jones, Reina Schaetzl | http://www.trpi.org/dss/ | ||
| 14 | US | Fed. | National Telecommunications and Information Administration | Inequality Runs Deeper Than Skills Gap | 4 | 07/19/99 | gary.chapman@mail.utexas.edu | http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/digitaldivide | |
| 15 | US | Fed. | Benton Foundation | Broadband and The Future of the Internet | 9 | Veronica Breckheimer, Kelvin Taglang | |||
| 16 | US | Fed. | Information Inequality | 2 | 10/07/99 | matt633@netzero.net | http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html | ||
| 17 | US | Fed. | Benton Foundation | Mergers and the Public Interest | The Telecom Act was all about opening markets for competition. SBC and Ameritech must show that this merger will serve the public interest and enhance competition. Large companies tend to put their money where the biggest payoffs might be without regard t | 07/26/99 | wkennard@fcc.gov | http://www.benton.org/DigitalBeat/db072199.html | |