[Air-l] Inventor of the term "Digital Divide"?

katewill at umich.edu katewill at umich.edu
Sun Mar 27 13:22:01 PST 2005




In 2001 Irving and others discussed this question, and the posts were 
archived:

http://www.rtpnet.org/lists/rtpnet-tact/msg00080.html

For more discussion of this and other sources see p 1-2 of "What is the 
Digital Divide?":

http://www.umich.edu/~katewill/kwd3workshop.pdf

In the NTIA's first report (1994 data reported in 1995) the term was not 
used, but that whole series of reports certainly laid out some data and 
focussed attention on the phenomenon.

kate







--On Saturday, March 26, 2005 3:21 AM +0100 Laurent Straskraba 
<laurent at straskraba.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I read about the first time using the term "Digital Divide" it was in
> NTIA documents of 1994. Here is a reference:
> http://www.tcla.gseis.ucla.edu/divide/politics/pinkett.html
>
> Morino Institute says it was Larry Irving (3rd paragraph):
> http://www.morino.org/divides/bio_irving.htm
>
> BUT Larry Irving said it was not him who invented the term, he just used
> it a lot in high-level policy circles. So he was credited for
> popularizing it with politicians, but he did not invent it. He said he
> has no idea where it came from.
>
> Anyone got an idea who was the original inventor of the term "Digital
> Divide"?
>
>
>
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