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December 11, 1999
Announcing the DIGITALDIVIDE Discussion Group
Announcing DIGITALDIVIDE:
A new mailing list on bridging the digital divide
(please feel free to forward this announcement)
As part of its effort to build an open discussion on ways to affect the digital divide, the Benton Foundation's Communications Policy & Practice program announces a new email list, DIGITALDIVIDE. An important part of the newly created Digital Divide Network (http://www.DigitalDivideNetwork.org), DIGITALDIVIDE will provide a forum for community activists, educators, researchers, commercial and nonprofit enterprises, volunteers, students, and concerned citizens the ability to discuss the diverse issues around the Digital Divide. Among the many subjects to be covered on the list:
- Internet/computer access issues
- content creation
- online cultural diversity
- public-private and commercial-nonprofit partnerships to bridge the
digital divide
- best practices in digital divide efforts
- education, profesional development and workforce training
- the roles of libraries and community technology centers (CTCs)
- obstacles to bridging the divide
- new metrics for measuring the divide
In order to subscribe to DIGITALDIVIDE, send an email message to
digitaldivide-request@list.benton.org
In the body of the message, include the following line:
subscribe digitaldivide yourname
with nothing else contained in the message. Be sure to replace "yourname" with your name.
Because DIGITALDIVIDE is a new list, the Benton Foundation will allow potential members several days to subscribe before opening the list for conversation. Discussion will begin on Tuesday, December 14. At that point you will be able to post messages to the list by sending emails to digitaldivide@list.benton.org.
Posted by acarvin at December 11, 1999 6:02 PM
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