Return-Path: <nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id eAAHKN919240; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 12:20:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 12:20:23 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <F13lqzUrIz8Ut65BVEp00000ad3@hotmail.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Emily Hacker" <emily_hacker@hotmail.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-TECHNOLOGY:1414] Re: Digital Divide - A Skills or Access Divide? X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 2311 Lines: 66 Agit and colleagues: Dinesh D’Souza’s comments that getting Internet access is equivalent to having telephones and TVs doesn’t hold up to actual ownership and usage statistics: Percent of US households with telephones = 93.9 (source TIAP: Calculations and Sources for Revving up the Communications Economic Engine: Household Services, Monthly Bills, and Barriers to Competition) http://www.tiap.org/hhbcns.htm#figure1 Percent of with U.S. households with TV’s = 98.3 (source: TIAP: Calculations and Sources for Revving up the Communications Economic Engine: Household Services, Monthly Bills, and Barriers to Competition) Percent of U.S. households with Internet access = 41.5 (source Falling through the Net: Toward Digital Inclusion, NTIA, 2000) http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org/res.adp Percent of Internet users with household incomes under $25,000 = 9.7% of overall Internet population (source: Web Usage Patterns by Household Income Media Metrix Report, August 2000)http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org/metrix_res.adp The communities most excluded from high speed and advanced telecommunications services are: Rural Americans Inner city consumers Low-income consumers Minority consumers Native American Communities Consumers in US territories (Source: FCC Report on the availability of high speed and advanced telecommunications services)http://fccadvancetelecom.adp Wiring the Rural West, by David Plotnikoff is excellent article on the digital divide struggles that exist for rural Americans. http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/special/ruralwest D’Souza is correct that there is a skills divide, but it exists alongside divides in access, awareness, literacy, education, income, race, gender, age and geography. Thanks for bringing D’Souza’s comments to our attention, Agit. --Emily ****************************************************** Emily Hacker Moderator - NIFL Technology List Director of Learning Technologies F.E.G.S 315 Hudson Street New York, NY 10013 (212)366-8122 emily_hacker@hotmail.com ehacker@fegs.org _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
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