Public Policy starters

• The Benton Foundation's web site at www.benton.org
• The Alliance for Public Technology at www.apt.org
• Plugged In's comments to the FCC on the deployment of advanced telecommunications services
• Check out two stories in the San Jose Mercury News that refer to Plugged In to discuss disparities in access to computers and the Internet
• The California Public Utilities Commission
• The Federal Communications Commission
• The Utilities Reform Network

Some links to technology equity discussions

These links were kindly provided by Arthur McGee, amcgee@igc.org.

• Bridging the Digital Divide: The Impact of Race on Computer Access and Internet Use http://www2000.ogsm.vanderbilt.edu/papers/race/science.html
• High Technology and Low-Income Communities: Prospects for the Positive Use of Advanced Information Technology http://web.mit.edu/sap/www/high-low/
• What Color is the Net? http://www.hotwired.com/netizen/97/11/index2a.html
• Losing Ground Bit by Bit: Low-Income Communities in the Information Age
  http://www.benton.org/Library/Low-Income/
• Falling Through the Net II: New Data on the Digital Divide http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/net2/
• Impact of CTCnet Affiliates: Findings from a National Survey of Users of Community Technology Centers
  http://www.ctcnet.org/impact98.htm