[DDN] Digital divide and NAS report
Bonnie -- I'm confused as to your reference to the Rising Above the Gathering Storm report. The NY Times article was certainly a disappointment - it was clear they haven't done their research. But I've not seen anything in the Rising Above report that implied that we had a playing field -- in fact that report points out how far behind we are in danger of falling. Thanks for clearing this up. Ken At 08:09 AM 4/3/2006, you wrote: Rising Above The Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11463.html The whole book is online free... But you have to read it. It is not a minutes worth of information. It requires understanding the reason for the report. I believe, since this is the second report that says that we are on a level playing field and that there is no digital divide that it is politically motivated by people who are not doing their research or reading recent reports. It was done by Cosepup Bonnie Bracey Sutton Kenan Patrick Jarboe, Ph.D. Athena Alliance 911 East Capitol Street, SE Washington, DC 20003-3903 (202) 547-7064 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.AthenaAlliance.org http://www.IntangibleEconomy.org ___ 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.
Re: [DDN] Sizing the Digital Divide...
You may want to look at the general business case for serving the poor as customers and entrepreneurs - as developed by CK Prahalad. It is as true in the specific case of digital technology as it is in the general case. Also, think of it this way: Metcalfe's law states that the value of a network equals approximately the square of the number of users of the system. So leaving anyone off the network diminishes its value. At 12:31 PM 2/13/2006, you wrote: Hello to all...I'm an MBA student at Wharton conducting research on the digital divide...I'm looking to make a business case for why businesses (in particular the private sector) should invest their resources (time, money, human capital, etc.) in programs that bring those currently outside the digital revolution into the fold. My focus is to develop a true value proposition that is based on economics vs. social responsibility / equity. I'd like the thoughts of this group relative to existing research or data on this topic, if it exists, or minimally any reactions to the following line of thinking (and more importantly, extensions with points I've yet to consider): 1. For communication providers (comcasts, verizons, etc.) I believe the value proposition is related to a potential untapped market--by developing the technical / digital competency of this target population, you are grooming potential customers for your products / services (therefore the size of the divide becomes a very relevant variable in the economics). 2. Developing additional supply for workforce needs (my guess is that someone has probably done some research here---but not sure how persuasive this is) I'm hopeful that there is much to this that I've missed but those are the initial stabs at creating the valuation proposition--which can be simplified into creating addtional demand for products / services and creating more supply to deliver these products / services (as may be evident in my overview above, my thoughts are very focused on the US and not a global perspective which may have to be broadened to truly capture the value proposition for these large organizations). All thoughts welcomed...thanks in advance for your time and patience. Regards, Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 301.780-3064 office 240.417.5111 cell Kenan Patrick Jarboe, Ph.D. Athena Alliance 911 East Capitol Street, SE Washington, DC 20003-3903 (202) 547-7064 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.AthenaAlliance.org http://www.IntangibleEconomy.org ___ 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.
Re: [DDN] 'Knowledge divide' must be narrowed t hrough education UNESCO
If you haven't found it, the report is available at http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001418/141843e.pdf At 09:06 AM 11/4/2005, you wrote: From the United Nations... I haven't found the actual report yet, though. The link in the press release leads to another press release, and the link to the report there appears to be dead. -ac 'Knowledge divide' must be narrowed through education UNESCO http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=16455Cr=informationCr1=summit 3 November 2005 With 90 per cent of all Internet users living in developed countries, governments must narrow the gap between North and South by expanding quality education for all, increasing community access to information and communication technology, and sharing scientific knowledge across borders, a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) report released today says. The report, Towards Knowledge Societies, launched today on the eve of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), analyses the increasingly important role played by knowledge in economic growth and advances that it can serve as a new springboard for development in the countries of the South. Those countries and communities that don't recognize this huge reliance on knowledge as a driving force will be left behind, Elizabeth Longworth, Director of UNESCO's Information Society Division, told a press conference at UN Headquarters in New York. She added that those countries and communities that recognize the importance of cognitive skills and make the resulting investment in education, lifelong learning and cultural facilities and in their research and innovation systems will prosper. Knowledge societies contribute to the well-being of individuals and communities, and encompass social, ethical and political dimensions while information societies are based on technological breakthroughs that risk providing little more than a mass of indistinct data for those who don't have the skills to benefit from it, according to the report. An example of a successful knowledge society is Singapore, which started out as a developing country of shantytowns at independence and achieved economic growth rates that surpass those of most industrialized nations in just four decades by promoting education and creativity. The work is the first in a new series of UNESCO reports, to be published every two years, focusing on subjects at the heart of the Organization's mission such as cultural diversity and sustainable development. -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net http://katrina05.blogspot.com Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com --- Kenan Patrick Jarboe, Ph.D. Athena Alliance 911 East Capitol Street, SE Washington, DC 20003-3903 (202) 547-7064 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.AthenaAlliance.org http://www.IntangibleEconomy.org ___ 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.
[DDN] Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property
Many of you may already know about this, but today's Financial Times has the following story: Call to restrict 'stifling' patents (http://news.ft.com/cms/s/3e3b14aa-3c1e-11da-94fb-0e2511c8.html) An international group of academics, scientists and artists has called for strict limits on patents and copyrights, concerned that the spread of intellectual property protection is suppressing knowledge and stifling creativity. A charter on intellectual property (IP), developed by the Royal Society of Arts in London, calls for an automatic presumption against creating new protection or extending existing rules. It also argues that patents and copyrights should not be allowed to apply to computer code, business processes, scientific theories or abstract data. Today's intellectual property regime was radically out of line with modern technological, economic and social trends, said the charter. The story refers to the Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property released yesterday in London - available at http://www.ipcharter.org. In addition to folks from the UK, the group includes some familiar names (some of whom are probably on this email list): James Boyle, Cory Doctorow, Larry Lessig and Jamie Love. Good job! Kenan Patrick Jarboe, Ph.D. Athena Alliance 911 East Capitol Street, SE Washington, DC 20003-3903 (202) 547-7064 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.AthenaAlliance.org http://www.IntangibleEconomy.org ___ 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.
[DDN] Intellectual Property Rights
I agree with John that the Google's and Yahoo's digitization of books is not a problem if the purpose is to provide access to specific portions only - the creation of the intellectual showroom (look what happened when the Border brothers encouraged people in their Ann Arbor bookstore to actually sit and read part of the book before they bought it). In fact, digitizing the entire book is the only way to make this search process work - and the access would be permitted under the fair use provisions of copyright. The technology is certainly there to limit access to just the searched portions. But, if access is provided to the entire book, then a copyright issue comes up - which brings me back to my earlier posting about Yahoo's plan to tie its Internet Archive to a Bookmobile that would allow for on-demand printing of a book, purportedly in underdeveloped areas. Such an on-demand printing activity without paying royalties would be a problem (as Kinko's found out a number of years ago when they put together on-demand university course packs from copyrighted materials). The core of this debate, however, is what belongs in the public domain. My real concern is the absurdly long term for copyrights that keeps materials out of the public domain - and goes well beyond any incentive to the authors. That is why I applauded the release of the Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property. Kenan Patrick Jarboe, Ph.D. Athena Alliance 911 East Capitol Street, SE Washington, DC 20003-3903 (202) 547-7064 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.AthenaAlliance.org http://www.IntangibleEconomy.org ___ 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.
[DDN] Internet or irrigation
from http://www.freepress.net/news/11806 Internet? Give us irrigation, Peru farmers say From http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=internetNewsstoryID=2005-10-12T231346Z_01_DIT283610_RTRUKOC_0_US-MINERALS-Reuters, October 13, 2005 LIMA, Peru (Reuters) Hundreds of Peruvian farmers living near the huge Las Bambas copper project plan a two-day protest on Sunday against a government program to spend a social fund on Internet connections in an area where many cannot read or write. As part of Swiss-based Xstratas concession deal to develop the southern Andes deposit, the company last year paid $45.5 million to a government-run fund to alleviate poverty in one of the countrys most impoverished regions. The government has said it plans to spend the money on installing computers connected to the Internet, soccer pitches and developing city squares in the Apurimac region. Were peasants, many of us cannot read or write But we dont believe the Internet will help us as much as an irrigation channel will, said Cristian Huilca, who went to Congress in Lima to lobby lawmakers, on Wednesday. Huilca said farmers planned to block the entrance to the exploration site being developed by Xstrata, although it was not likely to stop exploration. Xstrata, which aims to begin copper production at Las Bambas in 2011, was not immediately available for comment. Mining is Perus biggest export earner and money is flowing into poor Andean mining regions as metals prices hit record highs this year. But many poor farmers and a growing number of officials worry that funds are being ill-spent on decorative parks and buildings rather than on badly needed schools, drinking water plants, hospitals and electricity provision. Kenan Patrick Jarboe, Ph.D. Athena Alliance 911 East Capitol Street, SE Washington, DC 20003-3903 (202) 547-7064 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.AthenaAlliance.org http://www.IntangibleEconomy.org ___ 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.
[DDN] Business Week story on Digital Divide
Business Week is running a story on what tech companies are doing on the Digital Divide: Help for Info Age Have-Nots - http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2005/tc2005104_6877_tc024.htm It includes a mention of the MIT $100 computer, among other things. It also stresses the need to go beyond the one-size-fits-all solution. One of the projects I found most interesting was the Bookmobile part of Yahoo's Internet Archive project: The project will do more than just give everyday Internet users full access to some of the world's classic works, says Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle. In addition to being available online, the digital books will be included on all of the archive's Bookmobiles -- Internet-enabled trucks that print and bind books on demand for the poor and underprivileged. Kahle says those trucks, which have been deployed as far away as Egypt and Uganda, are just the beginning. Using this print-on-demand technology, we want every school, and every neighborhood library to be a million-book library, says Kahle. As I have tried to stress, its not about the technology - its about access to information and communications. After all, we don't call it the Internet economy, we call it the information economy. Ken Kenan Patrick Jarboe, Ph.D. Athena Alliance 911 East Capitol Street, SE Washington, DC 20003-3903 (202) 547-7064 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.AthenaAlliance.org http://www.IntangibleEconomy.org ___ 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.
Re: [DDN] Want E-Gov? Pick Up the Phone (fwd)
Andy -- thanks for posting this. Sometimes we forget how powerful the old technologies (i.e. telephones) can be. I think the thrust of this report is important -- which electronic channels work best I would even drop the word electronic. Our goal is access to government information, services and decision-making -- through whatever means (channels) work best. Ken At 12:00 PM 5/6/2005, you wrote: From GovTech.net, a UK story on achieving E-Government for All... -ac Want E-Gov? Pick Up the Phone In an attempt to find out which electronic channels work best for local governments -- and what local citizens think of the channels available for using e-government services -- the United Kingdom's Office of the Deputy Prime Minister conducted a study called the e-Citizen National Project. One piece of good news is that Britons seem to like the idea of being e-citizens. Few, however, have tried it, writes Michael Cross in The Guardian. The report highlights two groups of potential users -- the progressives include male, high-income earners with access to technology, and the contenteds, who are happy with local government and comfortable with technology. But the report says these two groups need online government services the least, while the poor, minorities and other disenfranchised groups who need the services most aren't using them. That is partially because this segment of the population simply does not have access to the technology that Britain's local authorities want them to use when it comes to e-services. Nor do they particularly care to use computers to interact with government. Buried within the report is this fact: The most universal e channel in the UK is the telephone, to which 94 percent of the population has access. That percentage is about the same here in America. snip http://www.govtech.net/magazine/channel_story.php?channel=17id=93902 -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net http://www.tsunami-info.org Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com --- Kenan Patrick Jarboe, Ph.D. Athena Alliance 911 East Capitol Street, SE Washington, DC 20003-3903 (202) 547-7064 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.AthenaAlliance.org http://www.IntangibleEconomy.org ___ 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.
[DDN] DD on cover of Economist
In case you haven't seen it yet, the cover of the latest issue of the Economist in on the digital divide: http://www.economist.com/printedition/displaystory.cfm?Story_ID=3742817 Encouraging the spread of mobile phones is the most sensible and effective response to the digital divide -- not PCs! Kenan Patrick Jarboe, Ph.D. Athena Alliance 911 East Capitol Street, SE Washington, DC 20003-3903 (202) 547-7064 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.AthenaAlliance.org http://www.IntangibleEconomy.org ___ 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.
Re: [DDN] Dark Horse for bridging the divide
Steve -- I wouldn't characterize this as a dark horse It is one of the central facets of bridging the divide -- for if, as you put it, the knowledge and skill not readily available in the community then the effort to expand the digital economy (a phrase I like better than bridging the digital divide) will have failed. Ken Jarboe At 12:52 PM 3/3/2005, you wrote: A suggestion to Andy Carvin in the form of a question: Is there now available online a good course on computer service and repair that woould make it possible for those in the poorer countries to keep their computers running? Whether a computer in a poor community costs $100 or $1000, the odds are that it will soon need attention that requires knowledge and skill not readily available in the community. For example: I visited schools in Belize recently that had been given good computers by one of the organizations that collects and rehabilitates computers and ships them them to those needing them--and most of them were covered with clothes waiting for repair that might never happen. If our Digital Divide Network might focus on this matter of computer service and repair, we might attack this matter of the divide from the angle of maintenance, and this would be a great contribution to narrowing the divide. Steve Eskow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kenan Patrick Jarboe, Ph.D. Athena Alliance 911 East Capitol Street, SE Washington, DC 20003-3903 (202) 547-7064 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.AthenaAlliance.org http://www.IntangibleEconomy.org ___ 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.
Re: [DDN] RSS: The Next ICT Literacy Challenge?
Let me take this discussion in a slightly different direction. The conversation on narrowcasting and student apathy to information other opinions has been very interesting (and I may try to fit it into my own blog on the Intangible Economy - www.intangibleeconomy.org) But, to what extent is the problem aggravated (or even caused) by information overload? As Taran has said RSS feeds are nice, but they also suck in a lot of ways. Finding what you want when you want it has actually become a lot more difficult. There is so much information out there that it is easy (as some students do) to simply turn to your favorite news station for the same reason people by certain brands - they know basically what they are getting. It is an information-search short cut in an overly information-rich environment. One of the major appeals of blogs to me is their function as specialized information-broker - I read certain blogs to stay up on certain topics just like I subscribe to this email list to keep up with interesting ideas and insights. How does this relate to the digital divide? It does because I think we always need to keep in mind that there are many people who will react to information overload by shutting down channels of communications. DD survey's have consistently shown a percentage that don't want to be connected 24/7. Our goal in closing the digital divide is to make sure people have the option -- not that we shove their face into that firehose stream of information around us with they want a simple drink. Ken Jarboe At 12:03 PM 1/21/2005, Andy Carvin wrote: Dan Gillmor at the Berkman blogger confab today just made the comment that the public will have to learn to do a little more work if they want to stay informed. It's not just going to show up on their doorstep the way it used to be, he said. It takes more effort to stay informed now, he noted. So what can we do to streamline the process? Sounds like RSS feeds will be one of the next major ICT literacy challenges for the general public, particularly when only five percent of people on the Net use RSS and they tend to be white, well-off, and very well educated, according to the folks at Pew. It will take this particular technology literacy (RSS savviness) for people to achieve media literacy and be well-informed as more journalism and civic discourse is produced for the Internet rather than broadcast or print -ac -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net http://www.tsunami-info.org Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com --- ___ 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.
Re: [DDN] TOP Eliminated
dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb so much for the vaulted demand-driven strategy for broadband deployment -- unless Congress and the Bush Administration believe that games and porno will be enough to drive demand. At 04:18 PM 11/22/2004, you wrote: The Technology Opportunities Program (TOP) did not receive an appropriation in the just completed FY 2005 Consolidated (Omnibus) Appropriations bill. With over a quarter-billion dollars invested since 1994, the TOP program has successfully served as a catalyst for innovative nonprofit organizations and public institutions to tackle pressing social challenges using advanced information and communications technologies. The Program has leveraged over $313 million in non-Federal resources. During its operation, the Program made 610 grants. Anthony G. Wilhelm, Ph.D. Director, Technology Opportunities Program National Telecommunications and Information Administration U.S. Department of Commerce 1401 Constitution Avenue, N.W. Room 4893 Washington, D.C. 20230 (202) 482-1216 fax: (202) 501-5136 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntia.doc.gov/top/ Kenan Patrick Jarboe, Ph.D. Athena Alliance 911 East Capitol Street, SE Washington, DC 20003-3903 (202) 547-7064 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.athenaalliance.org ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.
Re: [DDN] FW: Standard Measures of Digital Divide Help Needed
Yoni, David has posted some very good references. But let us keep in mind that a standard measure of the digital divide requires a standard definition of what is the digital divide. And I will not repeat the numerous discussions and debates on that subject that have been held on this forum. Suffice it to say that if you pick a definition, a measure will follow -- and there will be legitimate disagreement as to whether that is the right measure. Ken Kenan Patrick Jarboe, Ph.D. Athena Alliance 911 East Capitol Street, SE Washington, DC 20003-3903 (202) 547-7064 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.athenaalliance.org ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.
RE: [DIGITALDIVIDE] Who benefits from the digital divide? (fwd)
But the point of the article is not who wins or loses from the existence of the digital divide, but who wins from having the issue raised to a high political level (as opposed to the health care divide or the income divide). As Taran implied, the article does not overtly state who the losers from having the digital divide issue possibly overshadow other issues. However, the conclusion of the article sums up the author's position: those wishing to use new ICTs for the benefit of those truly at the bottom of the global social and economic hierarchy need to reconstruct the nature of the digital divide as a policy issue, to frame it as more than access, skills, or even content, but rather as part of a challenge to the global order itself so that solutions to the problem consciously tilt the balance of benefits away from those already privileged (information capital, the state, and the development industry) towards those currently excluded from not only new information and communication technology, but the basic requirements of a dignified human existence. Ken Jarboe At 06:46 PM 8/11/2004, you wrote: Taran raises an interesting point: who loses because there is a digital divide. I would like to hear his answer. Here is a first attempt from me. The people who lose the most are the very poor in the country. Yes, even developing countries have a poor and not so poor class. These poor have little access to education or health care in the current situation, things that could be improved greatly if both the hardware AND software were available. I believe it is possible to provide these. If you would like to see an outline of a book explaining this, please let me know. Alfred Bork Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science University of California, Irvine www.ics.uci.edu/~bork book with Sigrun Gunnarsdottir Tutorial Distance Learning -Kluwer -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:digitaldivide- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Taran Rampersad Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 10:52 AM To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group Subject: Re: [DIGITALDIVIDE] Who benefits from the digital divide? (fwd) acarvin wrote: From First Monday, by way of the UNDP... -ac Who benefits from the digital divide? New information and communication technologies are seen as a potent source of advancement for many countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America and have increasingly featured as topics of discussion in international fora. Who benefits from the rapid rise of this issue on the international agenda? This article argues that the promotion of the digital divide as a policy issue benefits four major groups: information capital, developing country governments, the development industry, and global civil society. http://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=6756do=gpage Andy Carvin acarvin @ edc.org I've read this article... and have spent a lot of time thinking about it, not because of what it says - but rather, what it doesn't say. While it is important to understand who profits from the Digital Divide, I think it is equally important who Loses from the Digital Divide. For every action force, there is an equal and opposite reaction force - Newton If one reads the article carefully, there's a lot that a thinking person can surmise. -- Taran Rampersad [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.knowprose.com http://www.easylum.net http://www.worldchanging.com http://www.fsc.cc http://www.a42.com ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. Kenan Patrick Jarboe, Ph.D. Athena Alliance 911 East Capitol Street, SE Washington, DC 20003-3903 (202) 547-7064 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.athenaalliance.org ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.