Digital Myth Or Digital Division: Examining Digital Divide Definition, Response, Effect and Policy.

V2.03 4/15/02

Special Shout Out To MIT Researchers And Public!

It's come to my attention that certain charts are MISSING from this version. PLEASE EMAIL salesATdataspheric.com TO REQUEST AN ELECTRONIC COPY OF THE COMPLETE RESEARCH AT NO COST OR OBLIGATION.

Introduction to web version

In the years since I submitted this paper as a senior thesis and published to various news groups it has languished on my hard drive. I thought I'd dust it off and throw it up in the hopes that someone might find it interesting and continue the research. Trajically, the NTIA reports upon which it's central thesis is based are no longer funded (like most of the programs described within). I believe I still have the spreadsheets that I derived all the charts from so email me if you want to check the data or build on it.

If anything, the thesis was remarkably easy to prove. Looking back, it was just dumb luck, good timing that the last NTIA report was released just as I was finishing up compiling data from the previous reports. Suddenly I had a potential problem: the latest data so conclusively and obviously proved my thesis that I stood to be accused of plagurism when I published. I raced to compile the latest data and send out a bare-bones paper to document the originality of my findings just as Larry Irving announced that the numbers stood in direct contradiction of Whitehouse policy at the time. This documented my research in a just— in—time manner and the rest was down hill. I intentionally picked a subject I knew I could research entirely online. Man, did that ever cut down on cost, time and grief. Also, the choice of a thesis topic in which you are infinitaly more qualified than your thesis instructor helps a great deal too.

So anyways, if you are in the government, nonprofit sector or are an educator or anyone doing distance applications like medical diagnostics or if you are a student researcher, this is here for you. Use it as souce, track through the links, request the base data, update me with fresh information, hit us up for advice, whatever. If you are about to spend money on your nonprofit internet technology initiative, please do give us a call. We know what you are dealing with from all sides.

Thanks,

Trevor
Sales@dataSpheric.com


Table Of Contents:

Introduction to web version

Part I: A Crisis of Internet Scale At Internet Speed

Part II: Examining the Digital Divide Thesis

Part III: Benefits, Reviews and Measurements—The Other Digital Divide

Part IV: Benefits in Education

Part V: Summary of Conclusions and Key Points:

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