Bush Abandons Universal Connectivity

Forwarded by David Isenberg from Benton.org, a non-profit devoted to gaining social benefit from communications technology:

Bush abandons national strategy to bridge the digital divide.

After a year of public speculation over whether the White House was committed to expanding Internet access and skills to all of America’s citizens, the administration has finally broken its silence. In its FY 2003 budget, the White House stripped over $100 million in public investments previously available for community technology grants and IT training programs—programs that offer real payoffs to rural communities, the working poor, minorities and children.

So predictable.

(For more infopinion(tm), see my blog entry about Technet and a piece called “The Paradox of the Best Network” that Isenberg and I wrote.)

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