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

[baterfly at email.com]

Hi,

It might have been Lloyd Morrisett, the former president of the Markle Foundation, according to:
http://elab.vanderbilt.edu/research/papers/html/manuscripts/race/science.html

or James Wolfensohn, president of the Word Bank (ironic, rather), in a communication at UNCTAD X, according to:
http://www.g7.utoronto.ca/scholar/johnson2000/index.html


Silvia Bethencourt

Community Information Coordinator
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Undergraduate Student
Curtin University of Technology
BA of Internet Studies
http://smi.curtin.edu.au/NetStudies/index.cfm

> 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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