I’m adding links to these two websites.
Digital Divide Network has way the most saves on del.icio.us, but is a bit of a minefield in terms of finding anything interesting, and it’s Western-dominated.
But there are things to be discovered. Intrigued by a link to Five weird ways to bridge the digital divide (too technical and again Western-centric for me) at Silicon.com, I discovered that Telecoms sans Frontieres (is there anything that comes with borders these days?) provide satellite broadband for disaster zones, including a three-minute phone call for affected families. Nice to know.
Digital Divide.org is more interesting, if only for the vague hint of fundamentalist religious sect about its approach. Read the Seven Fallacies about the Digital Divide. Then discover the Nine Truths about the Digital Divide. Nevertheless the arguments are thought-provoking. They don’t believe, for instance, that giving poor people laptops is necessarily good for them (see Fallacy Number One). They focus on Indonesia, what makes it so appealing, apparently, is that it is “a kind of digital virgin“. All this odd language is making me worried, but it’s an intriguing group to take a look at.
