Andy Carvin is the founding editor and current coordinator of the Digital Divide Network, an online community of more than 7,500 Internet activists in over 120 countries working to bridge the digital divide. [1] The EDC Center for Media & Community in Newton, Massachusetts produces and coordinates the Digital Divide Network (DDN). ... An expression used by government advisor, Dr. Simon Moores in a 1996, BBC television interview on digital inclusion, the digital divide is the socio-economic difference between communities in their access to computers and the Internet. ...

Born in Boston and raised in Florida, Carvin is a graduate of Northwestern University. While working for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in 1994, he authored the website EdWeb: Exploring Technology & School Reform, one of the first websites to advocate the use of the World-Wide Web in education. [2]. In 1999, he was hired by the Benton Foundation to help develop Helping.org, a philanthropy website that eventually became known as Networkforgood.org. At the December 1999 US National Digital Divide Summit in Washington DC, President Bill Clinton announced the launch of the Digital Divide Network, a spinoff of Helping.org edited by Carvin. [3] [4] Boston is a town and small port c. ... Official language(s) English Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 22nd 170 451 km² 260 km 800 km 17. ... Northwestern University is a private, coeducational, non-sectarian university, located in Evanston, Illinois and Chicago, Illinois. ... The Corporation for Public Broadcastings logo The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is a private non-profit corporation which is chartered and funded by the United States Federal Government to promote public broadcasting. ... Graphic representation of the world wide web around Wikipedia The World Wide Web (WWW, or simply Web) is an information space in which the items of interest, referred to as resources, are identified by global identifiers called Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ... The EDC Center for Media & Community in Newton, Massachusetts produces and coordinates the Digital Divide Network (DDN). ... A spin-off (or spinoff) is a new organization or entity formed by a split from a larger one such as a new company formed from a university research group. ...

Carvin is often quoted in the news media on issues related to the digital divide. He is also an active blogger as well as a contributor to the vlog Rocketboom. In 2001, he organized the email forum SEPT11INFO, an emergency discussion forum in response to the September 11 attacks. Following the Boxing Day Tsunami, he created the RSS aggregator Tsunami-Info.org, and served as a contributor to the TsunamiHelp collaborative blog. Blogger can refer to at least two things: Blogger, one who maintains a blog Blogger. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... Rocketboom (subtitled: daily with amanda congdon) [1] is a three-minute daily videoblog created and co-owned by producer-director Andrew Baron and Amanda Congdon. ... For related articles, including charities accepting donations, see Category:2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. ... RSS may mean: RSS, acronym for Really Simple Syndication, a family of XML file formats for web syndication used by news websites and weblogs: By extension, web syndication in general, and alternative syndication standards such as Atom Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a nationalist right-wing Hindutva group in India Radio Service...

In January 2005, Carvin began advocating mobile phone podcasting as a tool for citizen journalism and human rights monitoring; he called the concept mobcasting. [5] Utilizing free online tools including Feedburner, Blogger and Audioblogger, Carvin demonstrated the potential of mobcasting at a February 2005 Harvard blogging conference and at The Gates, the Central Park art installation created by the artist Christo. He later demonstrated mobcasting as part of a collaborative blog called Katrina Aftermath, which allowed members of the public to post multimedia content regarding Hurricane Katrina. For Carvin's work on mobcasting and the digital divide, Carvin received a 2005 TR35 award from Technology Review, awarded annually to the 35 leading technology innovators under age 35. [6] Carvin has also been honored as one of the top education technology advocates in eSchool News magazine and District Administration magazine. [7] Citizen journalism, also known as participatory journalism, is the act of citizens playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information, according to the seminal report We Media: How Audiences are Shaping the Future of News and Information, by Shayne Bowman and Chris... Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ... Mobcasting is a term coined by Andy Carvin of the Digital Divide Network in January 2005 to describe groups of people using mobile phones to create podcasts on a common subject, particularly in the contexts of civic engagement or political action. ... Blogger can refer to at least two things: Blogger, one who maintains a blog Blogger. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... A section of the Gates between the Great Lawn oval and the 86th Street Transverse (Feb. ... A Central Park landscape Central Park (, ) is a large public, urban park (843 acres or 3. ... Christo Yavasheff (born June 13, 1935) is an artist popularly known as Christo. ... Hurricane Katrina was the costliest and one of the deadliest hurricanes in American history. ... Technology Review is a magazine affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... Technology Review is an innovation and technology magazine affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... Educational technology is the use of technology to improve education. ...

Carvin lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

External links

• The Digital Divide Network
• Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth (blog)
• EdWeb: Exploring Technology & School Reform
• Technology Review TR 35 award
• The Gates @ Central Park
• Mobcasting Blog
• Katrina Aftermath
• TsunamiHelp
• Mind the Gap 1999 essay on the digital divide by Andy Carvin, Multimedia Schools magazine
• Remarks by President Clinton at the launch of the Digital Divide Network