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• in Technology
  Starbucks' Free WiFi May Bring the End of Pay-to-Surf
  In case you haven't heard, Starbucks turned on free, one-click WiFi for all customers today. This is a big deal.
  by alexpriest / on Jul 2, 2010
• in IT
  Broadband for All in Finland But Not United States
  Impediments persist for wider public computer centers with broadband access in the U.S.
  by knowlengr / on Nov 13, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “digital divide”

 

• Townwide lemonade sales net $3,134 to close the technology gap

  
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  That gauntlet of lemonade stands set up on Davidsons streets on Saturday really delivered, and that means computers for local school kids who need them. Organizers with E3D (Eliminate Davidsons Digital Divide) said Sunday night the effort raised $3,134 - the equivalent of about 10 new or 30 refurbished computers.
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• The Truth About Lifeline

  
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  It’s past time to set the record straight on Lifeline, the essential service to low-income families that has recently suffered fallacious attacks and been mislabeled as the “Obama Phone” program. Recently, political talking heads have falsely and irresponsibly excoriated the FCC’s Lifeline telephone program as ...
  2 weeks ago

• Innovation Priorities for India: Inclusive ICT and Renewable Energy

  
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  India is going through the first wave of a mobile boom, but the data and wave is just beginning. Success in this phase will depend heavily on inclusive access to ICTs, and meeting the large energy needs of this sector. Without innovative technologies and business models, the risks of a digital and energy divide loom ...
  2 weeks ago

• Snapshot: How affordable is mobile/cellular service in the Caribbean in 2013?

  
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  This is a 2013 update to our mobile/cellular affordability Snapshot – to get some insight into the proportion of a person’s monthly income that might be spent on mobile/cellular service, and how that might have changed in the last two years. Last week, we published our 2013 snapshot of the likely monthly spend for ...
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• "Obama-Phones" or "Gipper-Phones" -- Whats in a Name?

  
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  Two weeks ago, the U.S. House of Representatives held a hearing, “ The Lifeline Fund: Money Well Spent? ” It is impossible to read the testimony from that hearing and deny that the program is contributing importantly to the central goal of the Telecommunications Act: to bring affordable and advanced ...
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• Roundup: for the week ending 5 May 2013

  
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  A roundup of ICT/technology news from across the Caribbean region during the period Monday 29 April to Sunday 5 May 2013. Monday, 29 April 2012 Expert says cyber attacks increasing locally Antigua & Barbuda – Computer technology expert Yves Ephraim has pointed to growing incidents of cyber attacks in the country ...
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• What, it’s not on the Internet?

  
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  Generally when we talk about the Digital Divide, we’re talking about the disparities in use and access to the Internet and other digital resources – primarily due to income, education, and/or geography. In April last year the Pew Research Center / Pew Internet Project released a comprehensive report on the ...
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• Crossing The Digital Divide

  
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  This blog is about Patient Centered Information Technology. It assumes that there is a true and realistic benefit for people using information technology for their healthcare compared to those that doesn’t. This may be hard to prove but with more and more people engaging in this and havin the possibility the culture ...
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• Viodi View – 05/03/12

  
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  A video travelogue of the telecom industry and its related applications is one way to think about the Viodi View or, at least ViodiTV. The intent of the video interviews and stories from around the country is to augment what is in the news or what should be in the news. The nuggets we get from folks in our interviews ...
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• Connecting for Good Brings Wifi to Low-Income Communities

  
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  So far, nonprofit Connecting for Good has brought free wireless Internet to 600 households in three low-income housing projects in Kansas City. They think that an Internet connection is the gateway to countless opportunities. “We believe there is a growing underclass in America: the unconnected.  Without an ...
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• Snapshot: Caribbean mobile/cellular spend update 2013

  
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  This is a 2013 update to our mobile/cellular spend Snapshot, to determine the extent to which a person’s monthly spend on mobile/cellular services has changed across the English-speaking Caribbean. In May 2012, we provided a snapshot of the likely monthly spend for mobile/cellular service based on pre-defined ...
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• Roundup: for the week ending 28 April 2013

  
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  A roundup of ICT/technology news from across the Caribbean region during the period Monday 22 April to Sunday 28 April 2013. Monday, 22 April 2012 LIME urges students to enter essay competition Barbados – As a member of the Caribbean Association of National Telecommunication Organisations, LIME is encouraging ...
  3 weeks ago

• Should we provide a ‘Hand Up” to low-income Americans or “Hang Up” on them?

  
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  Last week’s Congressional oversight hearing on the Lifeline program vacillated between fact and fiction.
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• Strengthening a Vital Lifeline or Snatching it Away?

  
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  Through a web of subsidies called the Universal Service Fund, U.S. telephone subscribers ensure that telecommunications networks are affordable and available in rural areas; that schools, libraries and rural health centers can access basic and advanced services at discounted rates; and low income consumers can still ...
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• Infographic: Revisiting Pew’s Tech-Savvy Teacher Report

  
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  Back in February, the Pew Research Center released a report about how National Writing Project and Advanced Placement teachers are using technology in the classroom. In our coverage of the report , we focused on the pieces that laid out the disparities in educational technology effectiveness in low-income schools ...
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• National Broadband Plan: Universal access by 2020

  
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  The National Broadband Plan hopes to provide universal broadband access by 2020. Image from Flickr. It wasnt long ago that connecting to the internet meant dialing into your Internet Service Provider and listening to the hissing and pops of your internet connecting. Since then, though, broadband internet has become ...
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• Good deed doers, and ‘dognition’

  
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  Around Davidson: Micah Godsey and Franny Millen give back. Plus, other news.
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• Internet: Italia solo cinquantesima al mondo

  
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  La connessione ad intenet in Italia è ancora lontana da standard accettabili. A confermarlo è un rapporto diffuso dal World Economic Forum che ha stilato una classifica basandosi su 54 parametri diversi. Si è tenuto conto, tra l’altro, della velocità, della difusione di internet, dell’utilizzo di connessioni ...
  4 weeks ago

• Digital Divide, l’e-commerce non decolla in Italia

  
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  A distanza di un anno dalle rilevazioni del Digital Scoreboard dell’Unione Europea, che fa parte del più ampio progetto Europa 2020, le aziende italiane confermano una sistematica riluttanza ad investire, a piene mani, nell’e-commerce. I numeri, in questo senso, non lasciano molto spazio a dubbi ed incertezze. ...
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• All the Information You Need is Online – If You Can Afford the Internet

  
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  What if we could have a national, digital public library that would allow anyone with access to the internet the ability to browse, read and view some of our treasured informational resources? Well, the Digital Public Library of America had just that idea, and it went online late last week. It might sound a bit [...]
  4 weeks ago

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