"Digital Divide" Coverage Includes Pilsen
Published: January 28, 2010
You may know that the Pilsen Portal is one part of a larger campaign to make digital technology more accessable, useful and powerful in Pilsen. Local website Gapers Block wrote a story this week about these efforts:
"A study of broadband and digital technology use across the city came out over the summer, authored by University of Illinois researcher Karen Mossberger. It highlighted the city's Latino population in neighborhoods like Pilsen and Humboldt Park as among the least connected. While all immigrants must contend with a lack of familiarity, Latinos were singled out as the least likely to bridge the gap -- a phenomenon coined the 'digital divide.'
Pilsen and Humboldt Park were selected for pilot programs to receive city funding to cross the divide. In Pilsen, non-profit groups have been working over the past year to not only train residents in the use of digital technologies, but to more generally popularize and familiarize people with the potentials of the internet."
Check it all out--including some insight from our own Jaime Guzman--here.
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