Will you also be taking into consideration what impact the influx of portable hand-held devices, such as PDAs and cellphones with Internet capabilities, might have on current understandings of the digital divide? The existing research tends to focus on what might be called proven technologies whereas mobile devices are emerging technologies. It is possible to speculate what impact these emerging technologies will have on current understandings by looking at recent studies from around the world that are reporting who is buying what device and how they are using them. Gail Taylor Human Resource Education Ph.D. Student University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign