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RE: [OpenEconomies] Bush and digital divide

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  • Subject: RE: [OpenEconomies] Bush and digital divide
  • From: "Adam J. White" <adam_j_white(at)yahoo.com>
  • Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 11:56:48 -0500
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  • In-reply-to: <000001c1b31c$f151a340$bacdf78c@law.harvard.edu>
  • Reply-to: <adam_j_white(at)yahoo.com>
Sorry, that pull-quote block in the middle should have been in quotation
marks.  It's not my own.

-----Original Message-----
From: Adam J. White [mailto:adam_j_white@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 11:56 AM
To: openeconomies@eon.law.harvard.edu
Subject: RE: [OpenEconomies] Bush and digital divide

Or perhaps the Digital Divide is becoming less of a problem ... 

Internet use is growing faster among people in lower family income
brackets (Figure 2-3, Table 2-3).  Internet use among people who live in
households where family income is less than $15,000 grew at an annual
rate of 25 percent between December 1998 and September 2001.  Over the
same period Internet use grew at an annual rate of 11 percent among
people living in households where family income was $75,000 or more.

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/dn/nationonline_020502.htm#_Toc250413
(see esp. Figure 2-3)

Given the current international climate, perhaps Bush is redirecting
funds to programs that look to provide a greater benefit at the margin.

Adam White


-----Original Message-----
From: Mikael Pawlo [mailto:mikael@pawlo.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 11:07 AM
To: openeconomies@eon.law.harvard.edu
Subject: [OpenEconomies] Bush and digital divide


I guess Bush is not a big fan of the digital divide concept:

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50279,00.html

"In the budget proposal released on Monday, the Bush administration
seeks
to eliminate some programs aimed at closing the gap between digital
haves
and have-nots. The biggest cut is to the Technology Opportunities
Program
(TOP), a federal grant program designed to bring aid to communities that
are lagging in access to digital technologies."

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