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Bridging the Digital Divide: Technology, Community, and Public Policy [Paperback]

Lisa J. Servon (Author)

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0631232427 978-0631232421 August 15, 2002 1
Bridging the Digital Divide investigates problems of unequal access to information technology. The author redefines this problem, examines its severity, and lays out what the future implications might be if the digital divide continues to exist.

  • Examines unequal access to information technology in the United States.
  • Analyses the success or failure of policies designed to address the digital divide.
  • Draws on extensive fieldwork in several US cities.
  • Makes recommendations for future public policy.
  • Series editor: Manuel Castells.

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‘Bridging the Digital Divide makes it clear that the digital divide is only one symptom of persistent poverty -- a problem that touches us all. Fortunately, this is a case in which treating the symptom may help cure the disease. Servon’s book shows us that programs aimed at closing the divide are creating pathways out of poverty for many low-income technology users, who are acquiring career skills, educational advantages, and new knowledge that can lead to living-wage jobs’. Laura Breeden, Director, America Connects Consortium

This book is very dry, but in a good way, laying out where exactly the digital divide falls and assessing how programs across the country have tried to answer the question: Why cant Johnny surf? A must-read for serious technology activists. City Limits

This interesting and valuable addition to the literature on urban poverty and access to computers linked to the Internet is an empirical study that concludes with some sensible and thoughtful policy recommendations. Highly recommended. E. Lewis, New College of Florida

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Bridging the Digital Divide investigates problems of unequal access to information technology. The author redefines this problem, examines its severity, and lays out what the future implications might be if the digital divide continues to exist. This is also the first book to assess empirically the policies in the United States designed to address the social problems arising from the digital divide. It analyzes policies at both federal and local level, as well as looking at the success of community-based initiatives. The analysis is supported by empirical data resulting from extensive fieldwork in several US cities. The book concludes with the author's recommendations for future public policy on the digital divide.

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Information technology (IT) has wrought fundamental changes throughout society. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
community technology movement, community technology initiatives, community technology programs, community technology centers, community computing networks, technology activists, digital divide issue, divide initiatives, technology planner, telephone penetration rates, technology actors, public interest advocates, technology gap, disadvantaged workers, technology efforts, technology literacy
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Department of Commerce, City of Seattle, Department of Labor, Falling Through the Net, Department of Education, Grace Hill, United States, Neighborhood Networks, New York, San Francisco, United Nations Development Programme, Information Technology Association of America, Technology Matching Fund, East Palo Alto, Los Angeles, American Life Project, Benton Foundation, Pew Internet, Department of Information Technology, East Bay Works, Congressional Commission, Department of Neighborhoods, Project Compute, Silicon Valley, Urban Future
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