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Reports
Computer and Internet Use
First Monday - Social Networks that matter: Twitter under the microscope
Pew Reports
Pew Internet & American Life Project Current Reports
Demographics of Internet Users (latest survey Feb-March 2007)
Archived Reports
Other
Technology Planning
2008 Digital Future Report
A Nation Online: Entering the Broadband Age
Online Technology for Social Change: From Struggle to Strategy
Current and Archived Reports from Parks Associates
People with Disabilities
CTC Best Practices for Increasing Accessibility
This document distills these learnings about accessibility into eleven best practices across the categories of assistive technology, community outreach, facilities improvements, staff and volunteer recruitment and development, and program access and enhancement. By documenting and disseminating these best practices, CTCNet hopes to present practical information to help increase the overall capacity and quality of all CTCs.
The Growing Digital Divide in Access for People with Disabilities: Overcoming Barriers to Participation
1999 Report from the Digital Economy Conference.
Forrester Reports on Accessible Technologies
Microsoft-commissioned research to measure the current and potential market of accessible technology in the United States and understand how accessible technology is being used. The reports are the result of research commissioned by Microsoft and conducted by Forrester Research between 2003 and 2004.
Grants
Colorado Grants Guide - (must purchase online or print version)
Internet and Children
Children's Partnership and Other Organizations
Internet and Libraries
Library Research Information on the Digital Divide
Public Libraries Connect People to Technology but Face Challenges in Sustaining Service
Websites
Grants
Online Grants and Foundation Resources
grants.gov - apply for more than $400 billion in Federal grants
Web Community
America Connects
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
SavetheInternet.com
Internet Governance Forum (IGF)
Content
ContentBank.org
Nonprofit Technology Community
LSTech.org - Technology Information for the Poverty Law Community
Neighborhood Networks in Colorado (free Internet access and computer usage for Seniors and others)
N-TEN Connect, Voices from the Non-Profit Tech Community
techsoup.org - The Technology Place for Nonprofits
netsquared.org - Remixing the Web for Social Change
Public Knowledge
TechPolicyBank
International Telecommunication Union
Global e-Inclusion Movement
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Wireless
www.dailywireless.org
Wireless Philadelphia Non Profit Corporation
Links to current legislation, reports and websites covering computer and Internet access issues locally and globally. (You need Adobe Reader to open some of these links. Go to www.adobe.com, choose 'Get Adobe Reader', follow instructions.)
Legislation/News
Stimulus funds to map high-speed Internet
Free Press News
How does this threat to Internet freedom affect you? (savetheinternet.com)
Internet Tax Freedom Act Amendments Act of 2007
Communications Opportunity, Promotion, and Enhancement Act of 2006 - amends the Communications Act of 1934; would allow an eligible person or group to obtain a national franchise to provide cable service in a franchise area in lieu of any other authority:
Status and Summary(Public Knowledge)
Consumer Groups Decry House Passage of Video Bill That Makes Average Consumers Worse Off (freepress.net)
'Net Neutrality' Amendment Rejected(washingtonpost.com)
Community Broadband Act - no State can prohibit a municipality from offering broadband to its citizens; and when a municipality is itself a provider, it cannot abuse its governmental authority as regulator to discriminate against private competitors.
Preserving Innovation in Telecom Act - a bill aimed to prohibit municipal governments from offering telecommunications, information or cable services except to remedy market failures by private enterprise to provide such services.
Broadband Investment and Consumer Choice Act - a bill aimed to create a "market driven telecommunications marketplace," to eliminate government managed competition of existing communications services and to provide "regulatory parity" for "functionally equivalent services." (...removes much of the powers of state and local governments to regulate communications, redefining their roles as enforcers of Federal policy." - benton.org). Articles pertaining to legislation:
Benton Foundation Summarizes H.R. 5252
Colorado Senate Bill 152
Limits local government's authority to provide various telecommunication services, including cable television service, telecommunications service or high-speed Internet access. Status: Enacted |
