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Home Broadband Adoption 2007 by John Horrigan, Aaron Smith 47% of adults have high-speed internet connections at home as of early March 2007, up five percentage points from a year earlier.

Governor Schwarzenegger signed an Executive Order (EO) S‐21‐06 on October 27, 2006 (amended November 28, 2006 as S‐23‐06), titled “Twenty‐First Century Government: Expanding Broadband Access and Usage in California.” In addition to other policies, the EO created the California Broadband Task Force (CBTF) to “bring […]

Our Mission The Pew Internet & American Life Project is one of seven projects that make up the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan, nonprofit “fact tank” that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. The Project produces reports exploring the […]

The digital divide is defined as the access – or lack thereof – to technology at home (U.S. Dept of Commerce October 2003). Recent studies have shown the digital divide can be identified and measured according to seven at-risk socio-economic groups: Race, Gender, Age, Educational […]

The following is an update of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) May 2005 report entitled, Broadband Deployment in California. Telecommunications Division staff has prepared this update for presentation at the September 20, 2006 meeting of the California Emerging Technologies Fund (CETF) Board of Directors […]

A decade ago, the increasing importance of technology led policymakers, industry, and advocates to make reducing the digital divide a high priority policy issue in the public and private sectors.  Since then, the role of the Internet—at work, at school, at home, and in the […]

A Broadband Vision for California This report has been commissioned by the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC). CENIC is a not-for-profit corporation that serves the networking needs of all of California’s educational entities, from K-12 to the research universities. CENIC’s Next Generation […]