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    1. $6 billion for rural broadband: a hatchet or a scalpel?

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Daily, Geoff (author) and App-Rising.com
    Format:
    Commentary
    Publication Date:
    2009-01-15
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 171 Document Number: C28742
    Notes:
    2 pages., Suggests the U.S. government use funds from an economic stimulus package to establish and operate a Rural Fiber Fund.

    4. Africa short on phones despite mobile phone growth

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2004-09
    Published:
    International
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C24022
    Journal Title:
    Appropriate Technology
    Journal Title Details:
    31(3) : 49
    Notes:
    Apart from describing the shortage of mobile phones, the report indicates that growth in mobile phone usage is concentrated in urban areas and is "creating a widening communication gap between rural and urban communities."

    6. AgriStar high-speed satellite Internet closes digital divide

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    AgriStar Global Networks, Ltd., Chicago, Illinois
    Format:
    News release
    Publication Date:
    2004-12
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 142 Document Number: C21814
    Notes:
    Release distributed by AgPRonline, www.agpronline.com., "100% of rural America now has access to broadband Internet service."

    7. An agricultural videotext system : the Green Thumb pilot study (information dissemination)

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Clearfield, Frank (author), Warner, Paul D. (author), and Clearfield: Soil Conservation Service, South National Technical Center, Fort Worth, TX; Warner: Department of Sociology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    1984
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 72 Document Number: C03470
    Journal Title:
    Rural Sociology
    Journal Title Details:
    49(2) : 284-297
    Notes:
    Phase II

    8. Bridging the digital divide

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2021-04
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12184
    Journal Title:
    High Country News
    Journal Title Details:
    53(4) : 7-8
    Notes:
    Online from publication via subscription., A new report focuses on internet infrastructures on tribal lands and how tribes can use it to strengthen their sovereignty.

    9. Bridging the rural digital divide: global partnerships to exploit the new technologies

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Rudgard, Stephen (author) and CAB International, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK.
    Format:
    Paper
    Publication Date:
    2009-10-21
    Published:
    International
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 174 Document Number: C29639
    Notes:
    Presented as a PowerPoint at the CABI Global Summit, October 19-21, 2009, London, UK. 19 pages.

    10. Bridging the rural digital divide: livelihood approaches

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Format:
    Report
    Publication Date:
    2005-11
    Published:
    International: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 180 Document Number: C36117
    Notes:
    2 pages., Identifies eight "pillars" to form a successful policy framework for bridging the rural digital divide.