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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (75330)	8/24/1999 6:19:00 PM
From: Robert Rose	Respond to of 164684

<My hairdresser is like that, I don't know what it would take to get her online.> Multiple times from folks like my gardeners I've heard the refrain, "it's too much information." That seems to be an argument circulating among the computer illiterate to justify that condition.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (75330)	8/24/1999 10:21:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 164684

**OT* U.S. to hold forum on society's digital divide WASHINGTON, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Recent warnings of a growing information technology gap between whites and minorities and the rich and poor will be confronted at a forum later this year, the U.S. Commerce Department said Tuesday. Commerce Secretary William Daley said the two-day session planned for late October would allow top high-tech firms, civil rights groups, civic leaders and community groups to hold a serious dialogue about the "digital divide." "Without enough skilled people from all walks of life, we risk letting a 21st century opportunity become a 21st century social problem," said Daley, speaking at a technology center for needy kids sponsored by the Greater Washington Urban League. Daley's department issued a report last month warning that growth in Internet use was lagging among minorities, the poor and rural people -- the very people who desperately needed it to find jobs and seek education. Flanked by officials from AT&T Corp. <T.N> and Microsoft Corp. <MSFT.O>, Daley said that unless the gap was closed, the U.S. faced a "serious crisis" of computer-haves and computer-have-nots in the next millenium. Youngsters at the center showed off their cyberskills. Bruce and Akiem Watley, aged 11 and 12, produced a stack of computer-generated business cards for a grateful Daley, who confessed to being a "technologically challenged secretary of commerce." An Urban League official said a new $70,000 grant from AT&T, coupled with additional backing from Microsoft, would help upgrade the technology center, located in the northeast quadrant of the nation's capital. It would also help finance a new high-tech training center in southeast Washington, the official added. REUTERS Rtr 17:11 08-24-99