Jim Kohlenberger, White House Senior Domestic Policy Advisor to President Clinton (1993-2000) who worked to help pass the Telecommunications Act of 1996, becomes a Benton Senior Policy Fellow, serving until 2008. Jim strengthens Benton’s collaborations in the field and guides the media policy work, including advocacy for universal, affordable broadband, tangible public interest obligations for digital television broadcasters, diversified media ownership, and open communications networks.
Benton and EDC's CCT continue their partnership with The Sustainability Challenge: Taking EdTech to the Next Level.
Benton and EDC’s CCT continue their partnership and write Great Expectations: Leveraging America's Investment in Education Technology which examines the five-year old E-Rate program.
Woody Wickham, former MacArthur Foundation Vice President, who oversaw the foundation’s grants to public television and independent media, joins Benton’s Board of Directors.
MacArthur Foundation continues to fund Benton’s core policy work with a three-year grant.
Andrea Taylor becomes Executive Director of Benton Foundation (serves until 2004).
Benton creates the Digital Divide Network (DDN), providing the most comprehensive map of resources and strategies for bridging the digital divide with programming help from the National Urban League. DDN featured news, research, and data about the problems of unequal access to technology, and provides one-stop resources and information for communities seeking local solutions.
In 2000, Benton created the Digital Divide Network, providing the most comprehensive map of resources and strategies for bridging the digital divide with programming help from the National Urban League. The Digital Divide Network features news, research, and data about the problem of unequal access to technology, as well as resources and information for communities seeking local solutions.
Benton completes the What's Going On series with Networking for Better Care: Health Care in the Information Age.
Benton publishes Native Networking: Telecommunications and Information Technology in Indian Country.
Elizabeth Daley, Dean and inaugural holder of the Steven J. Ross/Time Warner Chair, University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, joins Benton’s Board of Directors.
Benton continues the What's Going On series with Losing Ground Bit by Bit: Low-Income Communities in the Information Age drawing attention to the digital divide.
As part of a Kellogg Foundation initiative on libraries and community information, Benton undertakes strategic communications research published as Buildings, Books and Bytes: Libraries and Communities in the Digital Age and produces a communications toolkit, The Future's in the Balance: A Toolkit for Libraries and Communities in the Digital Age.
Benton publishes What’s at Stake: Defining the Public Interest in the Digital Age.
Benton continues publishing the What's Going On series funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, and the Carnegie Corporation with Local Places, Global Connections: Libraries in the Digital Age.
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