BRIDGING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE: TECHNOLOGY,
COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC POLICY

Milano Graduate School Associate Professor
Lisa J. Servon releases new book on the digital divide

(New York, NY – October 14, 2002) Bridging the Digital Divide (Blackwell Publishers, 2002) investigates problems of unequal access to information technology. Author Lisa J. Servon, an Associate Professor at the Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy in Manhattan, redefines these problems, examines their severity, and lays out what the future implications might be if the digital divide continues to exist.

This is the first book to assess empirically the policies in the United States designed to address the social problems arising from the digital divide. It analyzes policies at both the federal and local level, as well as looking at the ways in which community-based initiatives have begun to fill in gaps left unfilled by public policy. The analysis is supported by empirical data resulting from extensive fieldwork in several U.S. cities. The book concludes with the author's recommendations for future public policy on the digital divide.

Bridging the Digital Divide is part of Blackwell Publishing's "Information Age Series." The books in the series aim at marking a turn in the academic literature on information technology and society. Manuel Castells is Senior Editor of the Series and provides the introduction for the book.

Lisa J. Servon is Associate Professor of Management and Urban Policy and Associate Director of the Community Development Research Center at the Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy. Her work focuses on urban economic development and urban poverty and her first book, Bookstrap Capital: Microenterprises and the American Poor, was published by Brookings Institution Press in 1999.

PUBLICATION DETAILS:
Author: Lisa J. Servon
Published by: Blackwell Publishers, September 2002
Pages: 273

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