Getting online can be difficult for ethnic groups excluded from power, a study finds.

Towns are TAKING DOWN THEIR WEBSITES in order not to have to post minutes to them. Yikes.

LAS CRUCES – It’s after dark, and Angel Banegas sits in the parking lot at Hatch Valley High School.

Zealously blocking certain websites deemed "inappropriate" can end up undermining learning.

There's an encouraging bright spot in the 'digital divide.'

Edward Snowden's disclosure of mass surveillance of the internet has necessitated a re-examining of our relationship with the internet. Rather than a tool that broadens democratic engagement, the internet is increasingly used as a tool to manage and direct citizens, particularly via the mass collection of personal data by both the state and large multi-national corporations. Although online tools are available to protect intellectual privacy and ensure individuals can fully engage in the democratic process, they are subject to the same limitations as other aspects of the digital divide in terms of social, economic and cultural capital. Regarding online intellectual privacy, the evidence suggests there are more efforts by the library profession to protect the rights of the individual in the United States, the home of the NSA, than in the United Kingdom. This paper seeks to investigate the state of this aspect of the digital divide and what is being done to address it.

An incident at an Atlanta cheque-cashing facility points to broader problems in making tech more inclusive

A whopping nine bucks. Wow.

Know WTF you're doing before you launch a supposed fix.

A third of families living below poverty level access the Internet only through their phones.  And young people from these families get access to few learning opportunities.

Today’s empires are born on the web, and exert tremendous power in the material world.

After mild improvements, American Indian reservations still suffer from “digital divide.”

Despite improvement, FCC says broadband still not being deployed to all in US.

There are still about 47 million people in the United States who don't go online.