INTERNET
NYTimes.com, NPR Team Up for Civics Education Web Site
Millions Expected to View Summit Web Site
DIGITAL DIVIDE
Foundation Recruits Minority Students for Tech Careers
Ten Percent of the World's Population Now Has Internet Access
INTERNET
NYTIMES.COM, NPR TEAM UP FOR CIVICS EDUCATION WEB SITE
NYTimes.com and NPR have launched Justice Learning
(www.justicelearning.org), a free civics Web site designed for high school
students and teachers. The Web site is organized around eight distinct civic
issues that are updated twice yearly. It will use lessons and articles from
The New York Times Learning Network and content from NPR's Justice Talking
radio show. Current issues include gun control, juvenile justice and Web
censorship.
[SOURCE: USA Today, AUTHOR: Associated Press]
(http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife/notablesites/2002-08-15-
civics-site_x.htm)
MILLIONS EXPECTED TO VIEW SUMMIT WEB SITE
The official Web site of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD)
went live yesterday. Conference organizers are predicting as many as 100
million page views on each of the 12 days of the conference. The site,
produced jointly by the Johannesburg World Summit Company (Jowsco) and
Hewlett Packard, is designed to provide information, news, meeting results
and entertainment to both United Nations delegates and the public. "Since
only a fraction of the people interested in the summit's universal themes of
people, planet, prosperity will be able to attend, the site is intended to
provide a central resource for content dissemination and dialogue," says
Thandi Davids, Jowsco communications executive.
[SOURCE: All Africa, AUTHOR: ITWeb]
(http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200208150311.html)
DIGITAL DIVIDE
FOUNDATION RECRUITS MINORITY STUDENTS FOR TECH CAREERS
Former Microsoft manager Trish Millines Dziko used her wealth and
connections to start the Technology Access Foundation, which funds an
intensive, four-year technology education program for minority teenagers
from low-income communities. From her own experience, Dziko knows that it is
critical to have someone help open doors to new opportunities. She has
designed the technology education program to connect Seattle-based
technology companies with minority youth. "If Nike can spend a zillion
dollars recruiting kids from school to play basketball, why can't we recruit
kids for technology?" said Dziko. According to the National Science
Foundation, the number of African-Americans, Latinos and American Indians
constitutes only seven percent of Americans employed in science, technology
and engineering fields. "This is a smart program because it's connecting
skills training to real world opportunities both at work and at school and
supporting kids through the process," says digital divide expert (and former
Benton communications policy director) Andrew Blau.
[SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News, AUTHOR: Kristi Heim]
(http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/local/3873709.htm)
TEN PERCENT OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION NOW HAS INTERNET ACCESS
According to Internet research firm, Nua, 10 percent of the world's
population now has Internet access. The 2002 Global Internet Trends report
shows that for the first time ever, Europe has the highest number of
Internet users in the world. Another finding of the study is that the
digital divide between developed and developing nations is as wide as ever.
While Europeans represent 32 percent of global users, only six percent are
based in Latin America, and a scant one percent each in the Middle East and
Africa. Nua forecasts that the total number of people online will exceed one
billion by the end of 2005.
[SOURCE: Europemedia, AUTHOR: Cathy O'Sullivan, editor]
(http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=12003)
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