LATINA VOTER INTERNET AND NEW MEDIA USAGE:
Groundbreaking Poll Shows Internet & New Media Usage Vital for Engaging Latinas
According to a report released by HOPE (Hispanas Organized for Political Equality), Latina voters with access to the internet are more likely to be informed about new state laws and the legislative process in general than non-connected Latina voters.
HOPE. ACT. VOTE, a program funded by the ZeroDivide, is a statewide campaign which aims to mobilize California’s 1.6 million Latina registered voters to become informed citizens, effective policy advocates, and active civic participants through an interactive online advocacy center.
CSULA's new policy reports on "Assessing the Geography of the Digital Divide in California" ZeroDivide funded a research grant to build upon prior research on technology isolation in Los Angeles by examining technology isolation at the census tract level for the entire state of California and contextualizing this information within a socio-demographic context. By looking at the entire state, this research looks at variations in the technology index within the context of urban-rural, county-to-county, and metro-to-metro variations. The research will lead to the creation of a California Atlas of technology indicators and an area-based hierarchy/priority list for policy interventions to ameliorate the digital divide in California.
Read the report: http://www.scribd.com/doc/11233703/In-Search-of-Digital-Equity
Funded by ZeroDivide and CETF, the purpose of this series is to inform policymakers, encourage discussion, and raise public awareness about information technology issues. The current survey focuses on trends in information technology access and use, and on public perceptions and attitudes about current policy issues. We use survey data to examine California trends over time, differences between California and the U.S. as a whole, and to increase our understanding of the “digital divide” in California.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger commissioned the California Broadband Task Force (CBTF) to “remove barriers to broadband access, identify opportunities for increased broadband adoption, and enable the creation and deployment of new advanced communication technologies.” The governor also requested that the CBTF “pay particular attention to how broadband can be used to substantially benefit educational institutions, healthcare institutions, community-based organizations, and governmental institutions.”
The Task Force’s final report, “The State of Connectivity – Building Innovation Through Broadband.” This report represents the culmination of more than a year of work by the Task Force, and includes maps of current broadband availability and speed, recommendations to increase broadband access and use, and a timeframe in which to meet these critical goals. The report is available online at http://www.calink.ca.gov/taskforcereport.
By Manuel Pastor Jr. and Justin Scoggins
http://cjtc.ucsc.edu/docs/r_golden_state.pdf
In response to rising in low-wage employment and increasing debate over
the issue of "working poverty", this report closely examines the impact
that a variety of ways of defining working poverty have on our
perception of the size and composition of the working poor in
California. By taking advantage of the unusually detailed information
that is available in the 1990 and 2000 Public Use Microdata Samples
(PUMS), the demographic, geographic, and labor market dimensions of
working poverty are compared and contrasted across 18 different
definitions, while at the same time providing estimates of the extent,
nature, and trajectory of the problem.
The result is an uncovering of biases that exist under some of the
definitions that have been used to measure working poverty and a
recommended "best" definition for the state that is both politically
feasible and computationally practical, along with a detailing the
characterization of working poverty in California and its regions in
2000 and the rise in working poverty that took place over the 1990s.
Even though Californians’ adoption of Internet technology has increased
over the past year, work remains to be done to bring California to the
forefront of Internet accessibility.
Congratulations to ZD Board Member and Former Assemblywoman Gwen Moore who will be honored at a reception on March 25 in Sacramento to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Moore Universal Telephone Service Act. As author of the Moore Universal Telephone Service Act, she secured the availability of telephone service to all Californians.
Seeking to build public support for an economic stimulus plan, the White House today released details of what President Obama is proposing to do for every state in the union.
