'Digital Divide' Category

• Book lists

  December 4, 2004

  Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | Season’s readings We don’t usually post general items like this one here, but I’ll make an exception with this one. From The Guardian a list of good books: “writers and guest critics recommend their favourites, from bestsellers to the undeservedly obscure.” The contributors: JG Ballard | Iain Banks |Julian [...]

  

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• Declaration from the First Social Forum of Information, Documentation and Libraries

  December 3, 2004

  Declaration from Buenos Aires – Social Forum of Information 2004 The attendees at the First Social Forum on Information, Documentation and Libraries: alternative action programs from Latin America for the information society, held in Buenos Aires from August 26-28, 2004, was called by the Social Studies Group on Library Science and Documentation (Argentina) and the [...]

  

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• The Digital Divide: Who is in and who is out?

  December 2, 2004

  A Nation Online: Entering the Broadband Age. US Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration. “A Nation Online: Entering the Broadband Age is the sixth report released by the U.S. Department of Commerce examining the use of computers, the Internet, and other information technology tools by the American people. Based on the U.S. Census [...]

  

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• Access to information sharply curtailed under Ashcroft

  November 23, 2004

  Shhh … someone might hear you. By Alex Johnson, MSNBC Updated: 6:19 p.m. ET Nov. 18, 2004. On the occasion of Attorney General Ashcroft’s resignation, MSNBC reviews his contempt for freedom of information. One particularly notable case was the redaction of almost half of a report on workplace diversity in Ashcroft’s Justice Department. The redacted [...]

  

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• National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Removes Data From Public Access

  November 21, 2004

  Announcement of Intent To Initiate the Process To Remove Aeronautical Information From Public Sale and Distribution AGENCY: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), Department of Defense. FR Doc 04-25631. Federal Register: November 18, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 222)] [Notices] [Page 67546-67547] SUMMARY: The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) intends to remove its Flight Information Publications (FLIP), Digital Aeronautical [...]

  

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• NRC pulls its online library over security concerns

  November 10, 2004

  OMB Watch – NRC Removes All Nuclear Information from Its Public Website This just in: NRC Restores web docs. Thanks Jim! The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) pulled its entire public reading room offline (editor’s note: Oct 25th, and as of today, Nov10th, they’re still offline!) after stories broke about possibly sensitive material on the website. [...]

  

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• NYT gives portrait of the electoral

  November 7, 2004

  Week in Review > How Americans Voted: A Political Portrait” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/weekinreview/07conn.html?ex=1257483600&en=d7d3c29173baef8b&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland”>The New York Times: How Americans Voted: A Political Portrait Here’s an interesting article for you data wonks out there. See the historic portrait of the electoral from 1976 – 2004. This portrait of the 2004 electorate emerges from interviews with 13,600 voters conducted by [...]

  

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• Historians To the Editor of the New York Times

  November 7, 2004

  To the Editor of the New York Times History News Network. The History News Network web site invites historians “If you write to the NYT and your letter isn’t published, please send it to us.” Many do, and the results are here.

  

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• Government in XML

  November 5, 2004

  GovTrack.us GovTrack.us is “a nexus of information about the United States Congress.” This site is a project of a single person, Joshua Tauberer, a University of Pennsylvania first-year graduate student in linguistics. The site is not fast and is sometimes not even reachable. But it is worth your time to take a look because it [...]

  

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• More on blocking access to websites

  October 28, 2004

  Expats blocked from official Bush website 27 October 2004. This story points out that “American expats are unable to visit the official website of US President George W. Bush.” It notes a similar block on an official government web site: The block follows a similar ban on some overseas visitors to a US government-run expat [...]

  

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