Hi, It might have been Lloyd Morrisett, the former president of the Markle Foundation, according to: http://elab.vanderbilt.edu/research/papers/html/manuscripts/race/science.htm... or James Wolfensohn, president of the Word Bank (ironic, rather), in a communication at UNCTAD X, according to: http://www.g7.utoronto.ca/scholar/johnson2000/index.html Silvia Bethencourt Community Information Coordinator TRI Community Exchange Inc http://www.tricomm.org.au/communitynet Undergraduate Student Curtin University of Technology BA of Internet Studies http://smi.curtin.edu.au/NetStudies/index.cfm
Hi,
I read about the first time using the term "Digital Divide" it was in NTIA documents of 1994. Here is a reference: http://www.tcla.gseis.ucla.edu/divide/politics/pinkett.html
Morino Institute says it was Larry Irving (3rd paragraph): http://www.morino.org/divides/bio_irving.htm
BUT Larry Irving said it was not him who invented the term, he just used it a lot in high-level policy circles. So he was credited for popularizing it with politicians, but he did not invent it. He said he has no idea where it came from.
Anyone got an idea who was the original inventor of the term "Digital Divide"?
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