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July 17, 2015 by Gary Price

New Report, Statistics: “Mapping the Digital Divide” (U.S.)

July 17, 2015 by Gary Price

The report (embedded below), Mapping the Digital Divide, was released by the White House Council of Economic Advisers on Wednesday, July 15, 2015. Later that day President Obama announced the launch of the Launch of ConnectHome Initiative.

Mapping the Digital Divide


See Also: Digital Divide: “Obama Program to Connect Public Housing Residents to Web”
See Also: ConnectHome Program To Provide Broadband for 275,000 Low-Income Households (by Lisa Peet, Library Journal)

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About Gary Price

Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.

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