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"America has a wide digital divide: high-speed Internet access is available only to those who can afford it, at prices much higher and speeds much slower in the U.S. than they are around the world. But that doesn't have to be the case, says Susan Crawford, former special assistant to President Obama for science, technology, and innovation and author of Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age. In this edition...
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"As schools catch up to the digital age, they are part of a nationwide effort to close gaps in access to technology, also known as the 'digital divide,' so that young people from all parts of society have the opportunities that access to technology provides. Most students, however, already come to school with digital knowledge honed through activities with friends online. In Digital Divisions, Matthew H. Rafalow reveals that these digital skills are...
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This book examines entrepreneurship, the need for global governance, and the importance of South-South cooperation in the ICT sector, drawing on country practices from Ireland, Spain, India, China and Turkey. Edited by Üner Kirdar, a senior adviser to the United Nations, the book argues that the information revolution provides unprecedented opportunities for economic and human development, as long as countries are capable of tapping its potential.--Publisher's...
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"In the digital age, technology has shrunk the physical world into a "global village," where we all seem to be connected as an online community as information travels to the farthest reaches of the planet with the click of a mouse. Yet while we think of platforms such as Twitter and Facebook as open and accessible to all, in reality, these are commercial entities developed primarily by and for the Western world. Considering how new technologies increasingly...
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Ninety-five percent of American kids have Internet access by age 11; the average number of texts a teenager sends each month is well over 3,000. More families report that technology makes life with children more challenging, not less, as parents today struggle with questions previous generations never faced: Is my thirteen-year-old responsible enough for a Facebook page? What will happen if I give my nine year-old a cell phone? In The Parent App,...
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