US School District Electrifies Education With Free Laptops

TUCSON -- Sunnyside sophomore Jennifer Galindo knows all about barriers. Two years ago, her family moved from Mexico to Tucson, where she didn’t know anyone and barely spoke English. “It was really...

PediaPress | Print Your Favorite Wikipedia Articles As Books

Techcruch carried an interesting note on how you can create a book by importing wikipedia pages. What is great is that you can create a book on any topic, sort information by chapters and PediaPress takes care of typesetting, printing and shipping. PediaPress allows you to...

On mainstreaming black folk for the web

In the following opinion piece, Leonce Gaiter discusses Black culture on the web.  He argues that "the late entry onto the Web" only reflects "Afro-America's loving embrace of the status quo" and "willful...

Ecuador's Plan to Bridge the Digital Divide

The international mass media is reporting that government leaders in Ecuador seek to implement an innovative means of decreasing the digital divide. New contracts are currently being negotiated with foreign mobile...

Didn't the Americans Invent the Internet?

Why is the Inventor of the Internet a "Have not" in the Digital Divide?In as it may be upon the innovation of a new product or service, the innovator assumes a dominant position in the respective facets of that...

Africa: Reclaiming Heritage in Cyberspace

So, with all the excitement about Second Life, blogging, .net and Web 2.0 one might just lose balance or get a little dizzy at first upon moving to Silicon Valley. The pace is fast here, and the myth is...

Activist Recruiting "Smart Mob" to Decrease the Digital Divide

Shannon McPherson, a student activist at Bryn Mawr College is actively recruiting flash mob and smart mob volunteers via her Facebook account and her social cause, "Decrease the Digital Divide" group located at...

One Laptop Per Child Experiencing Growing Pains

“I have to some degree underestimated the difference between shaking the hand of a head of state and having a check written, And yes, it has been a disappointment.” Nicholas NegroponteThe One Laptop Per...

$150 lap top for 3rd world, how about America's poor?

$150 lap top plan for 3rd world, how about America's poor?  More

A Picture is worth a thousand words...

A pictures is worth a thousand words. How the Bell Business Model Leaves Much of America Behind A special report from www.broadbandeverywhere.org AfricanAmericanOpinion.com recommends every African-American and every American to read this report.As Preston Gralla noted in his...

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