This past week the New York Times (registration may be required) reported data indicating that African-Americans are using the Internet at an increasing rate and closing what has been described as the digitial divide. The article draws on data from a recent Pew Survey.
Andy Carvin (Waste of Bandwidth) provides an analysis of these new data (the audio version).
Andy Carvin’s posts offering an international perspective on the digital divide always makes me feel hopeful and guilty at the same time. Internet-based technologies are spreading and connecting us all, but we take the ease and relative low cost of our own opportunities for granted. The perspective of what you can do from where and the related costs is worth a look.