D3: Proceedings of the Digital Divide Doctoral Students
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Table of Contents Workshop invitation ................................................................................ section A [Introduction] What is the Digital Divide? Kate Williams (workshop chair) Information University of Michigan, USA [email protected] ...........................................................................................B [The Computer] Computers, System Design and the Digital Divide: Meeting Information Needs Kent Unruh Library and Information Science University of Washington, USA [email protected].................................................................................. C [Open Source] What is Open Source Software? Cliff Lampe Information University of Michigan, USA [email protected] ............................................................................................... D [Research Methods] Measuring the U.S. Digital Divide: Quantative Survey Methods Salvador Rivas Sociology University of Michigan, USA [email protected] ..............................................................................................E [Digital Divide Policy in the U.S.] Framing Federal Policies and Programs to Bridge the Technology Gap Dara O'Neil Public Policy Georgia Institute of Technology, USA [email protected] ..................................................................................F [Education and Learning] Justifying ICTs in schools: A Comparative Study of the Use of Digital Divide Categories in Educational Policies in Latin America Florencio Ceballos Schaulsohn Sociology Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France, also Chile [email protected] ................................................................................... G [Community Networks] Community Networks and the Digital Divide: Future Directions of Growth Bharat Mehra Library and Information Science University of Illinois, USA [email protected] .......................................................................................... H [Community Technology Centers] Deconstructing the “Digital Divide”: Toward a Grounded Theory Blanca Gordo Regional and Economic Development i University of California at Berkeley, USA [email protected], [email protected] ................................................. I [Economic Development] The Digital Divide and Economic Development Randal Pinkett Media Arts and Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA [email protected]......................................................................................J [Gender] Gender and the Digital Divide – UK Government Policy and Community Informatics Leigh Keeble Community Informatics University of Teesside, UK [email protected] .......................................................................................K [African Americans] Talkin B(l)ack to the Divide: Literacies, Technologies, and Problems of Access Adam Banks English Pennsylvania State University, USA [email protected], [email protected] .................................................................L [China] Digital Divide in China: Its Current Situation and Progress in Research Yan Li Library and Information Science Peking University, China [email protected] ............................................................................................ M [Australia] Digital Divide in Australia: An Exacerbation of Old Inequities in the New Tangikina Steen Computer Education University of South Australia, Australia [email protected] ................................................................................... N [South Africa] Digital Divide Research in South Africa Peter Benjamin Interdisiplinary: development, public policy University of the Witswatersrand/Aalborg University, South Africa [email protected] ............................................................................................. O [Southern Africa] Addressing the Digital Divide in Southern Africa Batsirai Mike Munetsi Chivhanga Information Studies City University London, UK, also Zimbabwe [email protected], mikemunetsi@hotmail.com.......................................................P [West Africa] The Digital Divide in Africa: The Senegalese Case in West Africa Moussa Sarr Sociology, public policy, communications University of Laval, Canada, also Senegal [email protected], [email protected] ....................................................... Q ii [Germany] Internet for All – Insights into a Changing German Media Landscape Stefan Welling Social Sciences University of Bremen, Germany [email protected] .........................................................................R [Canada] Research into the Digital Divide in Canada Rory O'Brien Information Studies University of Toronto, Canada obrienr@fis.utoronto.ca.......................................................................................S [Mexico] Concerning the Social Construction of Information and Communication Technologies in Mexico: The Cafeticultores and the Digital Divide Carmen Pérez Camacho Social Anthropology Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico [email protected], camacho74@starmedia.com.................................................T [El Salvador] “Informationalizing” El Salvador: Issues and Challenges for Digital Divide Researchers Christina Courtright Information Science Indiana University, USA [email protected]......................................................................................... U [Cuba] Informatization and Information in the Cuban Social Project from an Information Professional's Point of View Rafael Avilés Merens Library and Information Science University of Havana, Cuba [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Ponencias en Español/Working papers in Spanish [México] Hacio la Construcción Social de las Tecnologías de Comunicatión e Información en México. Cafeticultores y Brechas Tecnológias. Carmen Pérez Camacho ......................................................................................W [Cuba] La Informatización e Información en el Proyecto Social Cubano desde la Óptica de un Profesional de la Información Rafael Avilés Merens...........................................................................................X iii May 22, 2001 [addressee] Dear [name], I am pleased to invite you to participate in an international gathering of doctoral students researching the digital divide. d3: Digital Divide Doctoral Student Workshop Wednesday, August 1 through Sunday, August 5, 2001 The University of Michigan School of Information, Ann Arbor, Michigan You will be a guest of the Alliance for Community Technology (a unit at the University of Michigan), which will purchase your air ticket, food and lodging, and host the conference itself. For more information, please refer to the enclosed arrangements and agenda sheet. We are planning a working seminar and have invited 20 doctoral students from more than a dozen countries to participate. Our hope is that this small working gathering will help create a virtual community where all digital divide doctoral students can convene and exchange information and ideas. With this in mind, our design for the conference aims at three outcomes: an edited volume of the reports of the workshop (also available online) a short consensus statement on digital divide research for all doctoral students to sign a means for all digital divide doctoral students to continue the discussion Each workshop participant will provide a working paper on a relevant aspect of digital divide research and the group will discuss each paper. Your working paper should address the topic of [topic]. Communication over the coming weeks can further clarify the topics, which are also briefly described on a separate page. Each working paper will be a critical review of the literature, and will include: 1 1) Research in this area to date 2) Research in this area by doctoral students 3) The future of research in this area: trends, gaps, priorities 4) A bibliography, including any URLs We suggest that papers be no more than 15 pages (7,500 words), plus bibliography. The bibliography should be sent in by July 1. The paper should be sent in by July 15. Everything will then go on a secure website for participants to review in advance. Accepting this invitation carries with it your commitment to provide a paper by the time requested for the group to learn from and discuss when we meet. If you would like to participate, please respond as soon as possible. Natasha Arnold on our staff will then contact you to begin making your travel arrangements. Thank you, Kate Williams Alliance for Community Technology University of Michigan School of Information [email protected] Enclosures: Arrangements and preliminary agenda List of working paper topics 2 Arrangements and preliminary agenda Arrangements/Accommodations Your air ticket will be round trip between a city near your home or school and Detroit, Michigan, which is the closest major airport to Ann Arbor. In addition to the air ticket, your invitation includes your ground transport, lodging and food from dinner on Wednesday, August 1 through lunch on Sunday, August 5. Each day breakfast will be available where everyone will stay, Oxford House. Lunch will be at or near the School of Information. Thursday, Friday and Saturday dinners will be at nearby faculty homes or restaurants. Preliminary Agenda Sessions will review and discuss each participants’ working paper and determine plans for follow-on