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

[M. Deanya Lattimore]

Hi Laurent!
> Anyone got an idea who was the original inventor of the term "Digital 
> Divide"?

Access Denied at
http://www1.soc.american.edu/students/ij/co_3/digitaldivide/history.htm

says that the origins of the term remain "shrouded in mystery" and 
suggests via Benjamin Companie's new book that Lloyd Morrisset might 
have created it, but again, there is dispute.

As you point out, they report that Irving says that "I am certain I 
stole the term, but I am not certain who I stole it from."

:-)
Deanya
http://www.deanya.com/


On Saturday, March 26, 2005, at 03:09  PM, 
air-l-aoir.org-request at listserv.aoir.org wrote:


> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 03:21:54 +0100
> From: Laurent Straskraba <laurent at straskraba.net>
> Subject: [Air-l] Inventor of the term "Digital Divide"?
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
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> 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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