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The Future of Reading: Learning From the Past to Thrive in the Future

Steve Haber | Posted 10.23.2009 | Books

Read More: Google, Ereaders, Internet, Open Formats, Boston Book Festival, Book Publishing, Books, Public Libraries, Digital Content, Future of Reading, Mark Twain, Reading, Sony, Digital Divide, Ebooks, Books News
Steve Haber

To truly open the future of books and reading, consumers must be freed from proprietary devices and formats. We owe it to those who came before us to bring access to as many as possible.

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The Racial Digital Divide: 25 Percent Of Chicagoans Aren't Online

AP | Posted 09.04.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Internet Study, Chicago Digital Divide, Chicago Internet Use, Karen Mossberger, Digital Divide, Chicago News

CHICAGO (AP) -- Spanish-speaking Latinos in Chicago are far less likely to use the Internet than their English-speaking counterparts. That's one conc...

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Giving Away Free Netbooks to Save America's Newsrooms

Will Bunch | Posted 05.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Philadelphia Daily News, Netbooks, Newspapers, Citizen Journalism, Journalism, Hunter S. Thompson, Digital Divide, Philadelphia-Pennsylvania, Print Media, Print Journalism, Death of Print, Death of Newspapers, Online News, News, Newspaper Industry, Media News
Will Bunch

What if newsrooms put their remaining muscle behind a program to provide information to the public and close the digital divide at the same time? That's "social benefit" we can believe in.

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Change or Cha-ching?

Timothy Karr | Posted 02.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Sock Puppets, Free Press, House, Obama, Broadband, Congress, Stimulus, Net Neutrality, Digital Divide, Shills, Business News
Timothy Karr

Change has come to America. Well, sort of. On "K" Street - home to Washington's most powerful corporate lobbyists - it's business as usual.

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Broadband: Very Stimulating

Craig Aaron | Posted 01.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Internet, Congress, Broadband, Economic Stimulus Package, Technology, Barack Obama, Digital Divide, Media News
Craig Aaron

Nearly half of U.S. households don't have a high-speed Internet connection. And without a massive public investment, we'll keep falling behind the rest of the world and failing to close the digital divide.

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Forging an Equity Agenda Aimed at Inclusion Across America

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Social Equity, Public Policy, White House Office on Urban Policy, Urban Policy, Design for Disease, H.O.M.E., Civic Engagement, Equity Agenda, Youth Build, Infrastructure Equity, Center for American Progress, Urban Sprawl, Angela Glover Blackwell, Social Empowerment, Policy Link, White House Office on Civic Engagement, Fresh Food Financing Initiative, Smart Growth, Digital Divide, Urban Strategies Council, Public Advocates, Urban Agenda, Economic Equity, Politics News
Arlene M. Roberts

There is no better time for implementing an equity agenda than now. 37 million people live in poverty and many more are one paycheck away. All it takes is one health crisis or a downsizing at the office.

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America's Next Moon Shot: Internet for Everyone

Timothy Karr | Posted 07.03.2008 | Media

Read More: Internet, Broadband, Digital Divide, Media News
Timothy Karr

Closing the broadband digital divide should have been a national priority. While our status as world technology leader went into free fall, Congress sat on the sidelines and the White House ducked and dodged.

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