[rtpnet-tact] [Fwd: [DDN] Children, the Digital Divide and Federal Policy]

[Judy Hallman]

To rtpnet-tact list:

I'm forwarding a message posted to the DigitalDivideNetwork list. I've 
added a link to the report (16-page .pdf file) on 
http://www.rtpnet.org/comp/   under "Statistics."

There's a lot of interesting and useful information in this report.

Judy Hallman (hallman at rtpnet.org, http://www.rtpnet.org/hallman)
Executive Director, RTPnet, NC (http://www.RTPnet.org/)

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [DDN] Children, the Digital Divide and Federal Policy
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 10:23:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: M. Henri' Thompson <Henri at HenriThompson.com>
Reply-To: M. Henri' Thompson <Henri at HenriThompson.com>,   The Digital 
Divide Network discussion group	<digitaldivide at milhouse.edc.org>
To: digitaldivide at milhouse.edc.org

"Children, the Digital Divide and Federal Policy" released today
by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows important disparities in the
quality of access to the Internet continue, even though 96% of 8-18
year-old-students report ever having gone online. The federal
government's most recent large study in 2001 found half (51.7%) of
all children ages 3-17 with family incomes of $75,000 or more had
Internet access at home, while just 15% of those with incomes of
$20,000-$25,000 did. Likewise, new data released by Kaiser
indicates that school-aged children ages 8-18 with less-educated
parents or who attend school in lower-income communities were
significantly less likely than other children to use the
Internet in a typical day or to have Internet access from
their homes.

...

Among some of the findings reported include:

* In 2004, 80% of White children 8 and older have Internet access at
home, compared to 61% of African American children in this age group.
Similarly, 8 in 10 (82%) children whose parents have a college
education have home Net access, compared to 68% of those whose
parents have a high school education or less.

* Among children 6 months to 6 years old, only 8% of children from
homes with incomes of $75,000 a year or more did not have a computer
at home, compared to 40% of children from homes with annual incomes
between $20-29,000, and more than half (55%) of those from families
with incomes under $20,000 a year.

The issue brief and survey snapshot are available at
http://www.kff.org/entmedia/entmedia091604pkg.cfm .


_________________________________
M. Henri' Thompson
Technology Consultant
BMW North America, LLC.
BMW Manufacturing Co., LLC.
http://www.bmwusa.com/
http://www.bmwusfactory.com/
http://www.HenriThompson.com


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