The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

Internet Access / Digital Divide

There is a real need to ensure underserved communities are not left behind as the Digital Age evolves. Why You Should Care About the Digital Divide.

The Leadership Conference Reports

• Are We Really a Nation Online? Ethnic and Racial Disparities in Access to Technology and Their Consequences - 9/20/05
• Bringing A Nation Online: The Importance of Federal Leadership - July 2002
• From Digital Disconnect to Digital Empowerment: Building a More Equitable Society through Leadership, Investment and Collaboration - Spring 2001

Fact Sheets

• Technology's Digital Divide - Consumers Union

Feature Stories

• New Research Shows Persistence of Digital Divide - 10/4/05
• Inch by Inch, DEC Works to Narrow the Digital Divide - 8/1/02
• Digital Empowerment Campaign Launched - 5/16/02
• Digital Empowerment Campaign Gains Momentum - 4/4/02
• Senate Takes on Digital Divide - 3/4/02
• Bush Budget Cuts Funds for Programs Addressing Digital Divide - 2/14/02
• The Future of Broadband - 2/13/02
• 'The Future of the Internet' - 11/16/01
• Survey Finds United States' Civil Rights Organizations Face Their Own Digital Divide, Struggle with Transition to Internet Age - 7/26/01
• Morino Institute and Digital Opportunity Initiative Release New Reports Further Examining International and Domestic Impact of Digital Divide - 7/24/01
• Panel Explores New Study by the Markle Foundation on Internet Public Policy Issues - 7/11/01
• Expanding Digital Opportunities - 4/5/01

Reports

• Speed Matters: Affordable High Speed Internet for All - Communications Workers of America - 1/17/07
• Measuring the Divide: African Americans' Access to the Online Universe - Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies on the Digital Divide - 3/8/06
• Computer and Internet Use in the United States: 2003 (pdf) - U.S. Census Bureau - October 2005
• E-Rate Funding Fix Helps Schools Access Technology - 1/26/05
• E-Rate Funding Slowly Starts Again - 12/3/04
• Coalition Declares Victory in Battle for Federal Community Technology Program Funding - 2/20/03
• Use of the Internet at Major Life Moments - Pew Internet Project - 5/10/02
• Second-Level Digital Divide: Differences in People's Online Skills - First Monday - 4/9/02
• Getting Serious Online - Pew Foundation - 3/3/02
• A Nation Online: How Americans Are Expanding Their Use of the Internet - NTIA - 2/5/02
• Networking the Land: Rural America in the Information Age - NTIA - 2/4/02
• The Bell Companies Are Harming America's Internet & Broadband Future - New Networks Institute - 12/17/01
• Inclusion in the Information Age: Reframing the Debate - Athena Alliance - 12/13/01
• The Internet Under Siege (pdf) - Lawrence Lessig - 11/15/01
• Reflections on the Rise and Possible Fall of the Federal Community Technology Centers Program - The Benton Foundation - 7/25/01
• Hispanics and the Internet - Pew Internet and American Life Project - 7/25/01
• Closing Social Divides - Morino Institute - 7/16/01
• From Access to Outcomes: Raising the Aspirations for Technology Initiatives in Low-Income Communities - Morino Institute - 7/16/01
• Spanning the Digital Divide: Understanding and Tackling the Issues - Bridges.org - 6/29/01
• A Brief History of the Internet - Internet Society - 5/24/01
• Ethnicity In the Electronic Age: Looking At the Internet Through Multicultural Lens - Cultural Access Group - 1/1/01
• Broadband Backgrounder: Public Policy Issues Raised by Broadband Technology - CDT - 12/1/00
• The UCLA Internet Report, Surveying the Digital Future (pdf) - UCLA Center for Communication Policy - 11/1/00
• Issue and Political Background on the Digital Divide - Columbia University - 10/31/00
• FCC Chairman Says Open Internet is Primary Goal; Cites Agreement of Consumers and Industry - Federal Communications Commission - 11/9/99