Offline America

Why We Have a Digital Divide

Jessamyn West, Fiona Morgan & Justin Grimes
librarian.net/talks/sxsw11

Slides

• Slides & notes - PDF , Keynote format, PowerPoint format
• Panelists: Jessamyn West, Fiona Morgan, Justin Grimes

Further reading

• Last year's talk & notes with Jenny Engstrom
• Rural Electrification program history
• Urban vs. rural broadband availability from broadbandmap.gov
• Broadband availability in VT

A few websites that work

• 23 Things Projects
• Mousercise
• LibSuccess wiki

Image credits

• Egypt protest photos
• Background photos & more electronic data processing

Jessamyn West is a community technology librarian in Vermont and the editor of the weblog librarian.net. She teaches email classes for seniors, builds tiny websites for tiny libraries and advocates for sensible technology use for everyone. IM her at iamthebestartist.