If you are interested in looking at the digital divide and how it affects children and youth in the U.S. as well, you can check out a new report released by The Children's Partnership called "Measuring Digital Opportunity for America's Children." It has some success stories, as well as good research and data about technology and kids. The report shows how technology impacts children's lives in four critical areas: health, education, workforce development, and civic participation.
You can see the report by going to their website at: http://www.childrenspartnership.org. Other great websites there for technology and youth are www.techpolicybank.org and www.contentbank.org Hope this helps! -- April KirkHart, MSW Special Projects Coordinator The Children's Partnership [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.childrenspartnership.org > From: Egor Grebnev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 01:12:46 +0400 > To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: SPAM-LOW: Re: [DDN] A Digital Divide review: what to start with > > Thank you, this seems to be a good initiative. > > Also, I have decided to narrow down the scope of the problem to a number of > individual aspects as I feel it is the only possible way to accomplish the > task. The topics I am going to cover are as follows: > > 1) access to technology > 2) access to information (includes networking) > 3) acquiring the minimal ICT skills at school > 4) acquiring the minimal ICT skills after school > 5) the ethnical aspect (with the 160 ethnic groups and only few of them having > computerized literacy this seems to be one of the specific problems of the > country) > 6) lack of specialized content > 7) the gender aspect > > Maybe there's something extremely important left out. And if so, I will be > glad if someone points this out. > > On Monday 10 October 2005 20:57, Kate Snow wrote: >> Be sure to check out the work of CTCNet (The Community Technology Centers' >> Network). ctcnet.org >> >> Kate Snow >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Egor Grebnev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sent: Oct 9, 2005 10:13 AM >> To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [DDN] A Digital Divide review: >> what to start with >> >> Hello everyone! >> >> I was given a task to write a short overview of successful approaches in >> overcoming digital divide in its various aspects that exist in the world. >> There is even a chance that the results of my work will be seriously taken >> by some Russian government officials. >> >> After spending a few days online, I realized that the amount of information >> on the topic is huge, yet the quality often lags behind. Much of this >> information comes from the 'official' sources where people are not >> interested in showing the real problems, but are willing to demonstrate >> success where it doesn't really exist. >> >> So here comes the question: where should I go first to find information >> about the following? >> >> 1) the 'real' success stories >> 2) the general aspects of Digital Divide that people have found ways to >> deal with >> 3) the 'working' community projects >> >> Any suggestions will be appreciated. > > -- > Egor Grebnev > ALT Linux Co. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org > http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
