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	World Summit on the Information Society - http://www.itu.int/wsis/ Information on the preparatory process and the two phases in Geneva (December 2003) and Tunis (November 2005). Organized by the UN agency International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
	United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force - http://www.unicttaskforce.org/ UN body set up to deal with the "digital divide" worldwide.
	M.S. Swaminath Research Foundation - http://www.mssrf.org/ This is a research Foundation working in India on the issues of access to communications for poor village communities. They are particularly interested in supporting content generation at a local level, to ensure that localy relevant information is available on the web for these communities, in a language they can understand.
	Seniornet - http://www.seniornet.org/ US organization offering computer education for senior citizens at many locations.
	Benton Foundation - http://www.benton.org/ Articulates a public interest vision for the digital age and demonstrates the value of communications for solving social problems by promoting a vision and policy alternatives for the digital age.

	Communication Initiative Network - http://www.comminit.com/ 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.
	F2C: Freedom to Connect - http://freedom-to-connect.net/ Organization/movement working under two assumptions. First, if some connectivity is good, then more connectivity is better. Second, if a connection that does one thing is good, then a connection that can do many things is better.
	Plugged In - http://www.pluggedin.org/ An organization in East Palo Alto, CA, offers training for young people, assists community organizations in getting on-line and offers computer access for the entire community.
	Committee to Democratize Information Technology - http://www.cdi.org.br/ 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. [English/Spanish/Portuguese]
	Digital Divide Network - http://www.digitaldivide.net/ Provides links to and information about research, data, resources, and grants available on the topic of inequitable access.

	Morino Institute - http://www.morino.org A nonprofit organization whose mission includes closing social divides and understanding the relationship and impact of the Internet on (US)society. Easily accessible site with good resources.
	Bridges.org - http://www.bridges.org/ International NGO aiming to help people in developing countries use ICT to improve their lives. Has online newsletter.
	Women in Global Science and Technology - http://www.wigsat.org/ 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.
	Digital Dividend - http://www.digitaldividend.org/ Explores sustainable business models for bridging the global digital divide. Its Project Clearinghouse is a database of nearly 700 digitally-enabled social enterprises in developing countries.
	InterConnection - http://www.interconnection.org 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.

	Literacy.org Bridges to the Future Initiative (BFI) - http://literacy.org/Projects/BFI/ Addresses the digital divide of education and technology in emerging economies.
	Childnet Academy - http://www.childnetacademy.org/ Highlights and rewards young people who are developing outstanding, innovative online projects which directly benefit other children worldwide. [English/German/French/Spanish]
	Neighborhood Networks - http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/mfh/nnw/nnwindex.cfm Housing and Urban Development (HUD) site dedicated to fostering technology growth and bridging the digital divide. Information on how to create and sustain a neighborhood network, including funding sources.
	Tactical Technology Collective - http://www.tacticaltech.org/ Aim is to advance the use of new technologies as a tactical tool for civil society in developing and transition countries.
	Arizona Government Information Technology Agency - http://www.gita.state.az.us/ Responsible for state-wide IT planning, coordination, and intiatives.

	Washington State University Center to Bridge the Digital Divide - http://cbdd.wsu.edu/ 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.
	The Journal of Community Informatics - http://ci-journal.net/ Peer reviewed articles about community informatics and the impact of information and communications technology on community development.
	The Impact of Race on Computer Access and Internet Use - http://elab.vanderbilt.edu/research/papers/html/manuscripts/race/science.html Article by Thomas Novak and Donna Hoffman for Project 2000, sponsored by Vanderbilt University. Links to references.
	An Educator's Guide to Access Issues - http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/wp/access/index.html In order to meet the needs of students in today's world, access to technologies must be equally available to all students. Accessibility issues include social, economic, and educational status, gender, funding, hearing, visual, and other physical disabilities.
	World e_inclusion - http://www.hp.com/e-inclusion/en/index.html Hewlett Packard's site to assist the rural poor in bridging the digital divide.

	Computers for Africa (CFA) - http://www.computers4africa.org/ Refurbishes and ships used computers to organizations in East Africa. Works to bridge the digital divide, focusing on women and youth groups and organizations working for social development.
	The Incommunicado Project - http://www.incommunicado.info/ A web research resource combined with an email-based mailing list covering network(ed) ecologies, ICT for development, internet governance, analyses of the NGO sector, and emerging South-South relations.
	First Monday - Why the "don’t–want–tos" won’t compute: Lessons from a New Zealand ICT Project - http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_12/crump/ Journal article by Barbara Crump and Andrea McIlroy. This paper asks the question, why, when computing is available in a socially situated, convenient environment, at no cost, do people choose not to compute?
	San Diego Futures Foundation - http://www.sdfutures.org The San Diego Futures Foundation provides computer technology and services to nonprofit organizations and schools to help bridge the digital divide in San Diego County.
	Beaumont Foundation of America (BFA) - http://www.bmtfoundation.com/bfa/us/public/ Provides assistance to and for the benefit of the poor, underserved and underprivileged.

	Information Systems for International Development - http://members.aol.com/kabjian/itindev.htm This is a list of resources related to the planning and deployment of information systems in developing countries.
	Grameen Telecom's Village Phone Programme - http://www.telecommons.com/villagephone/contents.html This is a detailed case study of extending telecommunications to rural Bangladesh.
	From Access to Outcomes: A New Report on the Digital Divide from the Morino Institute - http://www.morino.org/divides Paper from the Morino Institute argues that technology is not an end by itself but should serve as a bridge to ending other types of 'social divides.'
	BBC News: Bridging the digital divide - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1999/10/99/information_rich_information_poor/466651.stm BBC News Online concerning the international digital divide. Case studies focus on Burkina Faso, United States, Morocco, and Mongolia.
	Online Content for Low-Income and Underserved Americans: The Digital Divide's New Frontier - http://www.childrenspartnership.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Reports1&Template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentFileID=1034 This report aims to describe the group of Americans who are underserved by Internet content, to analyze the online content currently available for those who are underserved, and to provide a road map for action.

	How Worldwide Is the Web? - http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/jaal/Feb_Column.html Discusses the meaning of "world" in "worldwide web" and asks what the global network really means.
	CNET News.com - Perspective: What digital divide? - http://news.cnet.com/2010-1071-858537.html 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.
	First Monday - Effective use: A community informatics strategy beyond the Digital Divide - http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_12/gurstein/ Paper by Michael Gurstein examines the concepts and strategies underlying the notion of the Digital Divide and concludes that it is little more than a marketing campaign for Internet service providers.
	The Analog Divide: Technology Practices in Public Education - http://torinmonahan.com/papers/analog.htm Research article on the digital divide and infrastructure design in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). Also available in PDF.
	Challenging the Digital Divide - http://www.flexibility.co.uk/issues/debates/divide.htm Many people, mostly those already poor or socially disadvantaged in some other way, cannot or do not have access to new technologies and the opportunities they bring. These people stand on the wrong side of the "digital divide."

	Digital Divide - http://www.burcet.net/escenarios/digital_divide.htm Articles related to decision makers lag and its economic and cultural consequnces.
	Bridge The Digital Divide - http://www.bridgethedigitaldivide.com/ An effort of bridging the digital divide between the developed world and the developing world.
	Global Knowledge for Development Discussion Database - http://notes.edc.org/GLG/GKD/repo.nsf/search Archive of the Global Knowledge Discussion list. This is the major list dealing with ICTs in Development
	VERCON Communications for Agriculture - http://www.fao.org/sd/2001/KN1007_en.htm VERCON is the virtual extension work project run by the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation) This is a full description of the project.
	Urban Ed, Inc. - http://www.urbaned.org Washington DC area start-up nonprofit organization offering computer science training to community members.

	Heads On Fire - http://www.headsonfire.org/ An organization working to bridge the Digital Divide through community-based media arts programs.
	Solve Poverty - You Can Help Solve Poverty - http://www.solvepoverty.com Two organizations, Opportunity International and Hyperstudy.com Pty Ltd, working to provide small loans, on-line education and other resources to the economically disadvantaged. Lots of on-site links to other poverty related issues and services. Click and give site.
	United Kingdom Statistics Web Site - http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/inter0700.pdf Latest statistics for Internet access in the UK. In PDF.
	Tennessee State University Digital Divide Conference - http://explorers.tsuniv.edu/tsuaol/default.htm A conferencing alliance to bridge the digital divide between historically black colleges, universities and other higher educational institutions.
	Computers for Learning - http://www.computers-for-learning.org/ Nonprofit organization providing refurbished computers and free Internet service to qualifying families in participating independent school districts.

	Living in an e-World: An Information Society for All? - http://gguillotin.chez-alice.fr/digital_divide_and_information_society.htm Explaining the Digital Divide, the exclusion of those left aside the Information Society Development by comparing projects in France and Estonia to involve all in the use of Internet.
	Haves, Have-Nots, and Have-to-Haves: Net Effects of the Digital Divide - http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/fallsem98/final_papers/Rozner.html US focussed Discussion Paper
	Info Today - http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/Jan00/carvin.htm Article by Andy Carvin of the Benton Foundation arguing that the digital divide is the civil rights issue of the next century.
	Digital Opportunity Channel - http://www.digitalopportunity.org Very extensive digital divide news portal. Collaboration between OneWorld.net and the Digital Divide Network. Has newsletter.
	The Internet and Rural Development - http://www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/sustdev/CDdirect/CDDO/contents.htm This FAO report outlines the elements of a communication for development approach applied to the problems of rural development.

	The Digital Divide - http://adulted.about.com/education/adulted/library/weekly/aa100399.htm From about.com. Article on adult learning and the digital divide. Links to other articles including the digital divide and race relations.
	Digital Divide - Race Relations - Net Links - http://racerelations.about.com/newsissues/racerelations/msubdigdivide.htm?iam=ask&terms=%22digital+divide%22 Links concerning race and information technology. Also has links to sites on other gender and race issues.
	AOL Foundation Awards Digital Divide Bridge Grants - http://www.timewarner.com/corp/newsroom/pr/0,20812,666708,00.html Describes recipients of the grants in the year 2000.
	Money drives the digital divide - Jun. 20, 2000 - http://cnnfn.cnn.com/2000/06/20/life/q_divide/ The rich aren't only getting richer, a new report finds they're also getting wired.
	Contentbank.org - The Search for High-Quality Online Content for Low-Income and Underserved Communities: Evaluating and Producing What's Needed - http://www.contentbank.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Research_From_The_Childrens_Partnership&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&CONTENTID=6646 Research and recommendations to encourage the creation of low-barrier content and the careful evaluation of existing content to ensure that low-income and underserved individuals find a wide array of the online resources they want most. An Issue Brief and Action Plan by The Children's Partnership.

London School of Economics Chair for New Media and the Internet - http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/Media/rmlecture.pdf
Lecture by Professor Robin Mansell on the role media and networks can play in bridging the digital divide. PDF format.

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