tell us about your digital divide initiative!

[Andy Carvin <acarvin@GLOBALSCHOOLHOUSE.COM>]

(please feel free to redistribute to other lists)

Hi everyone. Big news to report: The Digital Divide Network is beginning the
groundwork to develop a searchable, national database of public Internet
access points and other local digital divide initiatives. Users will be able
to input their location and find out what's going on in their community
regarding the digital divide. We've partnered with a range of national
organizations and government entities, including the American Library
Association, the US Departments of Education and Commerce, HUD, PowerUp, and
other institutions to gather the latest information on the types of digital
divide initiatives available in each community across the US.

We're already beginning to process local initiative listings collected by
our project partners, but we'd like to invite individual organizations to go
online and tell us directly what you're doing in your community. We're
especially interested in learning about public Internet access centers
(CTCs, libraries, churches, etc) as well as tech-related training programs,
community networks and other digital divide initiatives.

If you're involved in a digital divide program in your community, please
tell us about it. We've set up an online survey, which can be found here:

http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org/database-form.adp

Once you've finished filling out the survey, please be sure to hit the
"submit" button in order to send your survey results to us.

We expect to have the database online in January 2001. Until then, feel free
to spread the word about the project. We look forward to hearing from you!

thanks,

ac


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Andy Carvin               andy@benton.org
Senior Associate
Benton Foundation
http://edweb.gsn.org/andy
http://www.DigitalDivideNetwork.org
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