How The Other Half Lives

Touring The Digital Divide

Jessamyn West & Jenny Engstrom
librarian.net/talks/sxsw10

Slides

• Slides & notes - PDF , Keynote format, PowerPoint format

Further reading

• Vermont electrification blog post
• FCC Broadband Study (pdf) & survey questions
• DSLReports article
• Pew Internet Life study - Home Broadband 2008
• New York City Broadband Landscape and Recommendations 2008 (PDF)
• Libraries Connect Communities: Public Library Funding & Technology Access Study 2008-2009
• New York Public Library computer classes / NYPL computer and Internet policies
• Jakob Nielsen's Three Stages of the Digital Divide
• How to help someone use a computer by Phil Agre
• Other links: IRS Free File, farmer calendar

A few websites that work

• 23 Things Projects
• Mousercise
• LibSuccess wiki

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.