The Benton Foundation seeks to articulate a public interest vision for the digital age and to demonstrate the value of communications for solving social problems.

Communication Interventions on Development.

The Morino Institute explores opportunities to leverage the Internet to advance social change. Our focus is on entrepreneurship (netpreneurs), effective giving (venture philanthropy), and closing social and digital divides.

PROGRAM UPDATES Become a TAP! The application deadline for organizations interested in becoming a technology access point is October 26, 2001. To learn more about the TAPs, find out how you can apply, or see answers to frequently asked questions, click here. Plugged In Greenhouse The Creative Garden After-School Program will begin running again on September 17, 2001 with our fall unit, People & ...

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Bridges.org, international nonprofit public policy organization, on international digital divide, information technology in developing countries, emerging economies ...

Solve Poverty - Raises money from socially responsible companies, who donate every time a visitor to the site clicks on the 'employ and educate' button. The result is to provide Micro Enterprise Development and Free Online Education ...

Digital Divide offers the latest information for educators, students, parents, and community members wanting to learn more about innovations and obstacles involving equitable access to technology in the digital age. Inspired by the multi-part series ...

O Comite para Democratizac o da Informatica (CDI) e uma organizac o n o- governamental, sem fins lucrativos, que promove programas educacionais e profissionalizantes (Escolas de Informatica e Cidadania), com o objetivo de reintegrar os membros de comunidades pobres, principalmente criancas e jovens, diminuindo os niveis d ...

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Search: Washington State University Cooperative Extension CENTER TO BRIDGE DIGITAL DIVIDE page was created by the Information Dept. of the College of Agriculture and Home Economics. Contact Chris Eder for questions about content. The site was designed by Miro Vejzovic. WSU Pullman, Copyright Washington State University | Accessibility | Copyright | Policies | ...

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Grameen Telecom's Village Phone Programme: A Multi-Media Case Study &nbsp TABLE OF CONTENTS Credits Executive Summary Introduction 1. Portrait of the Village Phone Programme 1.1 Grameen Telecom's Village Phone (VP) programme 1.2 Origin of GrameenPhone and Grameen Telecom 1.3 How the VP programme works 1.4 Why GTC and the VP are unique 1.5 The cellular phone market world-wide 1.6 The cellular ...

Posted September 1996 The Internet and Rural Development: Recommendations for Strategy and Activity Final Report and Executive Summary Prepared for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations by Dr. Don Richardson (drichard@uoguelph.ca) Rural Extension Studies, University of Guelph August, 1996 Introduction | Table of Contents | Executive Summary | Preface/Acknowledgements | ...

An Educator's Guide to Access Issues Ethic and Policy Issues in Informational Technologies University of Illinois Spring Semester, 1999 Julie Eck , Mark Hale , Sue Ruff , Michelle Tjelmeland Revised By: Jodi Altenbaumer, Kim Franzen, and Tim Pletcher In order to meet the needs of students in today's world, access to technologies must be equally available to all students. Accessibility to ...

1 s and 0 s Mind the Gap: The Digital Divide as the Civil Rights Issue of the New Millennium by Andy Carvin Senior Associate The Benton Foundation Washington, DC MultiMedia Schools January/February 2000 The digital divide is one of the most important civil rights issues facing our modern information economy. In the years since the start of the Internet Revolution, the American public has ...

A reprint from the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy in the Electronic Classroom department of the e-journal Reading Online ...

Building Pathways to Prosperity. Urban Ed is now at two locations in southeast DC! Washington View Apartment Complex and Douglass Knolls. Our TechnoAcademy has launched. The TechnoForce Development Program will be launching in August! You can apply online. Seating is limited so apply early!! Urban Ed, Inc. Urban Ed Homepage TechnoForce Dev Program TechnoAcademy Program Community Development ...

Global Knowledge for Development Discussion Database The GKD List has generated an enormous reservoir of valuable knowledge. The GKD Discussion Database provides a user-friendly resource for searching the archive of GKD messages and accessing the rich flow of information they provide. It contains the messages from March 1997 - present. The database was created through the generous support of ...

Flexible Work Issues: Introduction Work-Life Balance ICT and Sustainability Modernising Government Travel Substitution Debates Search Glossary Site Map WORK CASES ISSUES FORUM LINKS ABOUT Tackling the digital divide ...if we can find out what it is... Current approaches to tackling the divide New forms of enterprise, new types of skills, new sources of wealth and new forms of social ...

Virtual Extension-Research Communication Network (VERCON). Abstract.