Digital Divde Issues in Computer Science Education

  
Center for Women and Information Technology
http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/
Web site offering news of women and IT; announcements; links to women-related web sites focusing on Science/Technology, on Internet Information, and on resources for girls; information about women-related email lists in Science/Technology; and a vast collection of web-based syllabi for women- and gender-related courses, including courses focusing on women and science/technology.

Committee on the status of women in CS and engineering
http://www.cra.org/Activities/craw/
Their goal is to take positive action to increase the number of women participating in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) research and education at all levels.

Digital divide debate
http://www.cosn.org/resources/040202.htm
A collection of articles covering the debate over the existence/persistence/degree/impact of the digital divide, collected by the Consortium for School Networking.

Digital divide network
http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org
A range of information, tools and resources that help practictioners stay on top of digital divide developments. Serves as forum where practictioners can share their experiences with colleagues around the world. Exploring the causes and effects of the divide from four distinct angles: technology access, literacy and learning, content, and economic development.

GenTech
http://www.shecan.com
An applied research project whose mandate is to create conditions within which girls and women have maximum access to, and confidence in, a wide range of new information technologies.

Global reach: Bringing the world to your website
http:www.glreach.com/globstats/index.php3
Estimated figures of the number of people online in each language zone, classified by language instead of countries.

Getting girls interested in computer science http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/club/girls3.html

GirlTECH, Rice University
http://www.crpc.rice.edu/CRPC/Women/GirlTECH/

PBS: Digital divide site
http://www.pbs.org/digitaldivide/

Tech-savvy: Educating girls in the new computer age
Report from American Association of University Women
http://www.aauw.org/2000/techsavvy.html

Why are there so few female computer scientists?
© 1991 Ellen Spertus , MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/ellens/Gender/pap/pap.html

  

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