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Digital divide still scars UK Internet sector
News Internet access begins at home only if you're well paid, according to new research that show that years of government and industry initiatives have yet to close Britain's digital divide. Research published on Tuesday by the Greater London Authority...
[November 18, 2003, 16:50]
E-envoy calls for help bridging digital divide
News The government, which is keen to see universal Net access available in the UK, has several projects of its own to help bridge the digital divide. The socio-economic divide [when it comes to Internet access] is something we're worried about and...
[January 18, 2001, 9:26]
Government Web site to bridge digital divide
News The UK Government has launched a national jobs and learning Web site to help bridge the "digital divide" between professionals who are IT literate, and the unemployed who have never accessed the Internet before.
[March 8, 2001, 15:58]
Government failing to close digital divide
News The report, "Closing the Digital Divide: Information and Communication Technology in Deprived Areas", comes from the government's Policy Action Team 15 and blames the cost of Net access and lack of a clear policy for putting people in the poorest...
[March 28, 2000, 13:23]
Wireless could be bridge to digital divide
News The bridge across the global digital divide is likely to be a wireless one. Newton was among the many scholars, public officials and business leaders participating in the "Bridging the Divide" conference organised by UC Berkeley's Management of...
[April 5, 2004, 13:15]
Kids key to closing the digital divide
News BT is attempting to use the nation's youth to increase Internet use and close the digital divide. The digital divide is still a major problem for the UK, according to research published earlier this month that found Internet access often only...
[November 26, 2003, 17:05]
News Burst: Government pledges £30m to fighting digital divide
News The government moves to combat the growing broadband crisis Tuesday, launching a report on the future of high-speed broadband Internet services and offering an extra £30m to deal with the urban/rural digital divide.
[February 13, 2001, 14:01]
Europe may regulate the digital divide
News DT and industry experts believe this is unworkable, but it could sit well with the government's determination to wire the UK and prevent the development of a digital divide. Universal service obligations could be extended to the Internet according...
[May 10, 2000, 14:11]
Fiorina urges companies to combat the digital divide
News Jackson Sr.s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition to bring business leaders together to tackle the digital divide -- the gulf between those who use the Internet and those who don't. She said HP's digital divide initiatives have already helped to wire communities...
[May 1, 2003, 8:38]
MPs slam government over digital divide plans
News The government's UK online plans to close the digital divide have been severely critised in a select committee report. The report, from the same Trade and Industry select committee which last week attacked the government's attempts to open up BT's...
[March 27, 2001, 12:23]
Do your bit to bridge Africa's digital divide
News Next February three employees from CNET Networks UK, publisher of ZDNet UK, are going to be visiting Africa — and cycling 400km across Kenya — to cap off a six-month-long fundraising project to bridge the digital divide.
[October 13, 2006, 17:20]
Chancellor tackles the digital divide
News Chancellor Gordon Brown announced Wednesday a multi-million pound investment aimed at bridging the UK's digital divide and challenged industry to ensure affordable access to make the schemes work. The principle behind it -- that no-one should be...
[October 11, 2000, 9:47]
EC to investigate digital divide
News The European Commission is to undertake a study into the emerging digital divide, according to an official from the Council of Europe. She believes online forums like this are a vital part of e-democracy and could go some way to solving the digital...
[March 22, 2001, 14:12]
A Year Ago: Government to tackle 'digital divide'
News The government Monday published a report that highlights a 'digital divide' in technology skills among UK socio-economic groups These centres will help bridge the digital divide," stated Wills, "While new technology can offer great opportunities...
[January 30, 2001, 6:01]
Free set-top boxes for all to end digital divide
News A UK company claims it will bridge the digital divide in its ambitious plan to provide every house in Britain with a free set-top box to access digital television channels and the Internet. Freebox believes its freebie technology will help end the...
[September 27, 2000, 15:31]
Government fears digital divide is growing
News The UK already suffers from a consumer digital divide but Tuesday the government highlighted another one -- this time in the realm of business. New figures from the DTI's International Benchmarking Study 2000 reveal an increasing digital divide...
[November 22, 2000, 15:58]
Open source 'split by digital divide'
News Few programmers in developing countries get involved in the mainstream development of open source software, leading to a digital divide within open source projects, a researcher from the United Nations University (UNU) claimed on Thursday.
[March 17, 2006, 17:10]
Government digital divide strategy in disarray
News The government's plan to combat the digital divide by giving away 100,000 recycled PCs to the poorest families in Britain has gone awry as it admitted today that it has so far distributed just 6,000 since October.
[May 4, 2001, 13:47]
EU digital divide fuelled by fat pipe take-up
News The digital divide in Europe is being exacerbated by large discrepancies in broadband penetration rates across the 25 countries of the EU, according to the European Competitive Telecommunications Association (Ecta).
[September 14, 2006, 17:30]
A Case Study of Social and Corporate Responsibility in Bridging the Digital Divide
White Papers Being on the wrong side of the digital divide limits the life chances of the socially excluded, who have had neither the wherewithal nor the opportunity to obtain highly paid, skilled positions in IT.
[April 21, 2005, 0:00]
