Nearly every week now, I receive news about a new report of some sort that is making a strong political argument about the digital haves and have-nots.  Either the government or the marketplace must move in to help according to the scenarios created by the reports.  What is lacking is good scientific analysis in many of the reports. This site helps to provide a solution to that problem. Listed here are serious analyses of the Digital Divide. Marketing or sales-pitch reports dealing with the divide are excluded. 

-- Dr. Kenneth L. Hacker, 
communication scientist, New Mexico State University 

          NTIA "Toward Digital Inclusion" Report on Closing the Digital Divide, 2000, 2001 report also 

The Digital Divide as a Complex and Dynamic Phenomenon,  Jan van Dijk, Kenneth Hacker

"Falling Through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide" (1999), NTIA, U.S. Dept. of Commerce

Donna Hoffman and Thomas Novak scientific research on the Digital Divide

Facts and Fictions About the Digital Divide, Hacker's essay on Digital Divide reports, 2002

The Digital Divide and the US Hispanic Population (Benton Foundation)

The Digital Divide and Medical Information with Various Nations (World Health Organization source)