The social class gap in access to the Internet and computers follows the gap in income.  This is commonly referred to as the digital divide.
 

1. Overview of the Problem

• Losing Ground Bit by Bit Benton Foundation 
• Low-Income and Underserved Americancs The Childrens Foundation
• Class Divisions Emerging on the Net
• High Technology and Low-Income Communities

2. The Digital Divide

• Digital Divide: Fact Sheet
• Digital Divide Persists in US
• Falling through the Net II: New data on the digital divide


3. Web Accessibility and Equality
 

• Personal Empowerment Research Study Florida Institute of Technology
• OCCN Ohio Community Computing Network 
• Neighborhood Networks 
• Community Technology Center's Network
• Nurturing Neighborhood Nets
• Technology Equity and Access for Children in America


4. Schools and Web Access
 

• Internet access in public and private schools
• The Equity Threat of Promising Innovations: The Internet in Schools Henry Jay Becker
• Education Technology Reports Educational Technology Reports
• Wiring Around the Country
• Internet Access in U.S. Public Schools and Classrooms


5. Government
 

• Socially Inclusive e-Government? Catherine Sladen

6. Major Ongoing Programs Addressing Web Access Issues
 
• IIT Internet Access
• Street Level Youth Media
• NeighborhoodNet/ NeighborhoodTech
• Computer and Communications Use in Low-Income Communitites
• The Association for Community Networking

7. Achieving Equity: Proposed Solutions to the Digital Divide
 
• What is the solution to the Info gap? IG Kennedy


8. Background on the World Wide Web

• The Nature of Cyberspace 
• Internet and World Wide Web History