Initially I had difficulty relating to the CNet headline "Survey: One-fifth of American's have never used e-mail" because email is such a part of my daily life. The Parks Associates research behind the headline points to some details behind the digital divide. In summary, roughly 18% of U. S. heads-of-households responded that they are without Internet access and 30% have never used a PC to create a document. Age and education were a factor in the results of the survey, half of the respondents who hadn't used email are over 65. My parents got a PC after they retired, but never bothered connecting it to the Internet.
The report does have some good news, at the end of 2006 roughly 29% of all U. S. homes lacked Internet access. We'll likely look at this data differently as more people opt for mobile Internet access through devices such as the Apple iPhone rather than PCs. Plenty of houses in the U. S. likely don't have the option of getting broadband access because population density issues discourage running more cable but they may be able to get cellular coverage.
Michael Caton, Collaboration Evangelist, WebEx
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