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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”

 

• Hello Africa – A documentary on the culture of mobile technology in Africa

  
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  Hello Africa is a vivid portrait of the cellular phone culture in Zanzibar. It is an effort to document the widespread diffusion of mobile phones that has taken place in the African continent in recent years while providing an insight into people’s perception and use of this technology. This documentary represents a ...
  2 days ago

• New Technology, Same Methods in Schools?

  
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  The Center for American Progress has released an outstanding and provocative report about the risks of spending a great deal of money for technology in school districts and then teaching with exactly the same methods as before. Despite my overly elaborate class web page, I often tell people that my teaching ...
  3 days ago

• Digital Divide Continues to Widen in South Carolina

  
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  by Vilissa K. Thompson, LMSW The digital divide continues to widen in the state of South Carolina.  According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s data, over 21% of South Carolinians do not have personal computers in the home, and for residents  who do have home computers, almost 16% do not have internet access. South ...
  6 days ago

• Snapshot: How affordable is mobile broadband in the Caribbean?

  
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  Following on from our mobile/cellular broadband spend Snapshot, we examine the affordability of that service across the Caribbean. In our recent Snapshot: How much are we spending on mobile data plans in the Caribbean?, we examined a broad range of mobile/cellular broadband plans from across the Caribbean to determine ...
  1 week ago

• Addressing The Digital Divide: The Internet and Social Inequality in an International Perspective

  
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    I first started working on issues and research related to digital inequalities in an internet perspective  two years ago . The research holds both theoretical and empirical implications of the digital divide in the Balkans, South Eastern Europe. With the help of colleagues Massimo Ragnedda  (Northumbria ...
  1 week ago

• Roundup: for the week ending 9 June 2013

  
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  A roundup of ICT/technology news from across the Caribbean region during the period Monday 3 June to Sunday 9 June 2013. Monday, 3 June 2012 Digicel launches nation’s first HSPA+ network Anguilla – Wireless operator Digicel Anguilla has announced the launch of a nationwide HSPA+ network, which the pan-Caribbean ...
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• Short Steps on Long March to Close Digital Divide: Rogers Breakthrough!

  
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  New Orleans   When it comes to creating some form of internet equity so that lower income families have access to the internet and can overcome the digital divide, everyone “gets” it, but no one wants to do what it takes to make it happen.             President Obama on his way to meet the ...
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• The little opportunities of not being in a hurry

  
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  If I had been dead-set on attending a recent 8:30 church service at Davidson College Presbyterian Church, I would have missed out on miraculous tales told by my little neighbors. ... I got to hear about something miraculous anyway -- Lucys crawfish named Pinchy got a leafy "dress," a hat, and a table made out of a ...
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• Digitally shy lawmakers of “Digital Bangladesh”

  
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  Technology is a catalyst, not an element, of increasing productivity. The desire of improvement is central to all successes, where technology accelerates the rate of achievement. Bangladesh government can truly claim the credit of dramatically improving the child and maternal mortality rates through an efficiently run ...
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• MOOCs: A head start on college — but kids need help

  
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  High school students could use MOOCS (massive open online courses) to earn college credits , Coursera cofounder Daphne Koller tells Anya Kamenetz on Hechinger Digital . “There are so many studies that demonstrate the benefit to students in high school in having access to college-level material. It encourages ...
  2 weeks ago

• Snapshot: How much are we spending on mobile data plans in the Caribbean?

  
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  A brand new snapshot examining mobile/cellular data plans – spend and data caps – in the Caribbean. The proliferation of mobile/cellular phones in the Caribbean provides citizens in the region with a device through which a variety of telecoms services may be secured. Over the past 10 to 12 years, the focus in most ...
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• Julian Assange against Google:is the tech industry becoming a powerful agent of American foreign policy?

  
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  According to Assange, “THE New Digital Age” , a best seller written by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, “proselytizes the role of technology in reshaping the world’s people and nations into likenesses of the world’s dominant superpower, whether they want to be reshaped or not.” A radical criticism to the ...
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• The big picture – online Norwegians and changing media habits

  
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  This is how it looks like – the percentage of people accessing internet in Norway on a daily basis, represented by age groups from 2000-2012. Pretty amazing historic development, right? I created this graph via  Statistics Norway , where you can create your own tables and graphs. Update: I just had to add ...
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• Roundup: for the week ending 2 June 2013

  
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  A roundup of ICT/technology news from across the Caribbean region during the period Monday 27 May to Sunday 2 June 2013. Monday, 27 May 2012 EBITDA Target Vital To $40m BTC Spend Bahamas – Achieving EBITDA margins greater than 30 per cent is vital to the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) maintaining annual ...
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• Postcolonial Studies, Digital Humanities, and the Politics of Language

  
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  Excerpted from a longer essay in progress. Adeline Koh and Roopika Risam recently started an open thread on DHPoco based around an observation by Martha Nell Smith about the politics of race and gender in the digital humanities. I find these topics distinctly connected to questions about language and the ...
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• Are poor students excluded from online education?

  
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  Can peer-peer support compensate for disadvantages? Corey Davis, director of online learning at Our Lady of the Lake University, was interviewed recently on the Chronicle of Higher Educations Tech Therapy podcast . Davis says the discussion of MOOCs and other online courses often fails to consider minority ...
  3 weeks ago

• Roundup: for the week ending 26 May 2013

  
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  A roundup of ICT/technology news from across the Caribbean region during the period Monday 20 May to Sunday 26 May 2013. Monday, 20 May 2012 EDITORIAL: LIME’s $100m investment great news Barbados – The announcement by telecommunications firm LIME that it intends investing $100 million in an islandwide network ...
  3 weeks ago

• Report: Google wants to connect the developing world with wireless

  
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  You might have thought Google’s gigabit fiber plans in the U.S. were big, but Google may have even bigger broadband ambitions in the developing world. According to a Wall Street Journal report , Google is working with governments and local regulators in countries all over Africa and Southeast Asia to build ...
  3 weeks ago

• Snapshot: How affordable is Internet service in 2013?

  
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  A 2013 update of the extent to which Internet broadband speeds are affordable across the Caribbean. Since May 2011, and following from our most recent Snapshot of Internet speed and pricing, we have been regularly assessing how affordable Internet broadband service is across the Caribbean. In this post, we are ...
  4 weeks ago

• 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.
  4 weeks ago

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