Digital Nation - 1 views
Adoption Gap Remains Along Demographic Lines; Socio-Economic Status Does Not Explain the Entire Gap WASHINGTON, Nov. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Commerce's Economics and S...
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Digital Divide, Mobile Divide, Knoeledge Divide, Access Divide, are we a nation of oppo... - 1 views
http://thepowerofus.org/2012/01/06/digital-divide-mobile-divide-knowledge-divide-access-divide-are-we-a-nation-of-opportunity/ We Still Have a Digital Divide and it is growing!!'We Still Have a Di...
FCC Chairman, Experts, Discuss Driving Broadband Adoption and Effects on Economy at Joi... - 1 views
FCC Chairman, Experts, Discuss Driving Broadband Adoption and Effects on Economy at Joint Center by TIFFANY BAIN on OCTOBER 3, 2012 Although it had only been in its new office location for less th...
Broadband Adoption Key To Jobs and Education Connect To Compete - 1 views
Connect To Compete Overview http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/featured-news/broadband-adoption-key-to-jobs-and-education.html Washington, DC - Last week, Chairman Genachowski unveiled his pr...
Feds ,Companies work to close the Digital Divide - 1 views
Feds, companies work to close digital divide New survey reveals 17 million American children still don't have broadband access at home From staff and wire reports Read more by staff and wire servic...
Broadband USRegulator Unveils plan for Universal Broadband - 1 views
Broadband, Genachoswki, Rural , telco companies favored vs Cable, Bypassed by Broadband.
Connect to Compete Residential Survey Information - 1 views
Top tech firms back open Internet in FCC letter October 12, 2011 Today, it was announced that national nonprofit Connected Nation is a key strategic advisor and partner in a major national public...
New Report: More Than 20 Million Americans Denied Access to Jobs & Economic Opportunity Within Broadband Economy | FCC.gov | Mark Wigfield 2010-05-20 - 1 views
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Claude Almansi on 27 May 11"(...) May 20, 2010 Mark Wigfield, 202-418-0253 (...) Progress made, but rural communities across the nation continue to lack access to broadband More than 100 million Americans do not subscribe to broadband (...) approximately 26 million Americans, mostly in rural communities located in every region of the country, are denied access to the jobs and economic opportunity made possible by broadband. While the infrastructure of high-speed Internet is unavailable to those Americans, the FCC report also finds that approximately one-third of Americans do not subscribe to broadband, even when it's available. This suggests that barriers to adoption such as cost, low digital literacy, and concerns about privacy remain too high. The Report also notes limited broadband capacity for schools and libraries as a further indicator that broadband is not being reasonably and timely deployed and is not available to all Americans.(...) "
Broadband, Social Networks, and Mobility Have Spawned a New Kind of Learner - 0 views
12/13/11 Students are different today because of technology. Every educator knows this, of course, but this change is about much more than agile thumbs, shriveling attention spans, and OMG'd vocabu...
Who really benefits from putting high-tech gadgets in classrooms? - 2 views
****************************** From The Los Angeles Times, Saturday, February 4, 2012. See http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20120205,0,639053.column .. Our appreciation to Monty Neil, ...
The Broadband Imperative - 2 views
The Broadband Imperative provides an up-to-date assessment of access to Broadband by students and teachers (in and out of schools); current trends driving the need for more Broadband in teaching, l...
Plan Would Force U. of Wisconsin to Return $39-Million in U.S. Broadband Grants - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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"June 8, 2011, 7:01 pm By Marc Parry A budget approved by a legislative committee last week would force the University of Wisconsin to return $39-million in federal grants awarded to expand high-speed Internet access across the state, state education officials said. The plan would also require all University of Wisconsin institutions to withdraw from WiscNet, a nonprofit network cooperative that services the public universities, most of the technical and private colleges in Wisconsin, about 75 percent of the state's elementary and high schools, and 95 percent of its public libraries, according to David F. Giroux, a spokesman for the university system. (...) Another provision in the plan would bar any University of Wisconsin campus from participating in advanced networks connecting research institutions worldwide, according to Mr. Evers's memo. For example, the Madison campus would have to withdraw from Internet2, a high-speed networking consortium, said Mr. Giroux."
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That's what Lessig had in mind when he said: "Think about the question of broadband policy. (…) The US has been a dismal failure in this respect. As we watch the US going from number 1 in broadband penetration, now to, depending on the scale, number 18, 19, or 28. And that change is because of policies that effectively block competition for broadband providers. Their answer, these broadband providers brought to our government, and got our government to impose actually benefited them and destroyed the incentives for them to compete in a way that would drive broadband penetration. (…)" From Lessig's Keynote Address at g8 7:48 - 8:42 - http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/C6wmjKWrZwlP/
Broadband - 1 views
http://www.pabnews.com/20541/broadband-must-increase-to-diversify-online-learning/ USA - The Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission spoke on the benefits which broadband can bring to ru...
FCC 'Steve Jobs Era Fund' Bridges the Digital Divide - 1 views
By Michael Nunez | October 28, 2011 12:00 PM EDT The Federal Communications Commission accepted Chairman Julius Genachowski's proposal to overhaul a program dedicated to building telephone connect...
Misunderstanding Race and the Digital Divide - 2 views
Misunderstanding Race and the Digital Divide by Joseph Miller Guest Contributor on December 16, 2011 "One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those w...
More Wireless Broadband Is What Consumers Want, U.S. Needs to Close the Digital Divide - 3 views
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Digital Literacy is the Bedrock for Lifelong Learning - 2 views
BY VANESSA VEGA 10/25/11 People often ascribe technological devices with magical properties, as though the inert objects in and of themselves can bestow us with the capacity to be "better, faster, ...
US Regulator Proposes Wide Reforms of Rural Telephony Subsidy - 1 views
http://cellular-news.com/story/51224.php By: Simon Davies | 6th Oct 2011: 4:57pm The US telecoms regulator has outlines plans to reform the Universal Service Fund (USF) and Intercarrier Compe...
FCC posts map of broadband access - 1 views
FCC posts map of broadband access: The Federal Communications Commission posted an interactive map on its website Wednesday that shows which areas of the country lack access to broadband. Currently...
Wisconsin Lawmakers Grant Reprieve to University Broadband Efforts - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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June 17, 2011, 5:11 pm By Marc Parry "Colleges and libraries have been up in arms all week over a proposed budget that would have forced the University of Wisconsin to return $39-million in broadband grants and withdraw from a nonprofit high-speed networking cooperative. Well, state lawmakers have changed course-for now, anyway."