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Civille, Richard – Internet Research, 1993
Presents a vision and a national strategy for civic networking based on the development of the National Information Infrastructure. Topics addressed include a public interest communications policy; benefits of civic networking, including improving services and reducing government costs, reducing poverty and health care costs, and improving…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Programs, Computer Networks, Cost Effectiveness
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Camp, Joseph D.; Knightly, Edward W.; Reed, William S. – Journal of Urban Technology, 2006
In most middle- and upper-income homes across the United States, children, youth, and their families have access to the world's information-technology resources at their fingertips, while in low-income communities, access to technology and the opportunities it provides are often limited to brief periods of computer use and Internet access at…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Internet, Information Technology, Computer Uses in Education
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Rooney, Eugene M. – Catholic Library World, 1997
Discusses problems (poverty, lack of national publishers, use of libraries as study halls, low professional status of librarians) affecting high school libraries in Latin America and suggests ways to improve library services, focusing on reference service (opening reference stacks, improved cataloging, library skills instruction), technical…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Computer Networks, Databases, Foreign Countries