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Ramirez, Alex; Davis, Thomas; Harris, Ramon; Staudt, David – Syllabus, 2001
Explains the AN-MSI (Advanced Networking with Minority Serving Institutions), an alliance of minority-serving institutions that are working together to reach information technology (IT) parity. Describes partnerships that have been formed to support four main activities: assisting campus leadership in IT planning, network technologies, Internet…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Educational Planning, Higher Education, Information Technology
Peer reviewedFielding, Elizabeth – Australian Library Journal, 2000
Examines the role that public libraries can play in the Australian government's objective of developing a network literate society. Highlights include an historical perspective; national infrastructures and government agendas; social equity; equitable access and user fees; Internet-related roles and service directions; and implications for further…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Computer Networks, Foreign Countries, Government Role
Peer reviewedRogers, Everett M.; And Others – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1994
Investigates the socioeconomic and gender equality aspects of the public's use of PEN (Public Electronic Network), a computer-based interactive communication system provided free to residents of Santa Monica (California). Topics discussed include public terminals; use by homeless people and by women; and participation in political communication…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Access to Information, Communications, Community Programs
Download full textNew York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1994
This update reports on the technology available in New York's public schools. Data and figures are provided for the following measures: total number of microcomputers in New York State public schools; percent of old and new computers; ratio of students to technology resources; number and percent of schools having at least one of a given type of…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Printers, Computer Uses in Education, Computers
Peer reviewedCorbett, John, Ed. – Library Hi Tech, 1996
Presents an overview of past, present, and future activities involving automation and networking in Oklahoma libraries. Topics include a library technology network concerned with equitable library service; a union list of CD-ROM library holdings; telecommunications infrastructure; telephone charges and Internet access; upgrades of rural library…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Full Text Databases, Futures (of Society), Internet
Wilson, Linda – 1993
Assistive technology that can help disabled computer users is described, and a resource guide to computer help for the disabled is presented. The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 has broad implications for higher education, in that it mandates that colleges and universities give disabled students equal access to computers on public…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Communication Aids (for Disabled), Computer Networks
