CLEVELAND DIGITAL VISION |
Cleveland Digital Vision |
Digital Vision's Polling Project (the Household IT Users Survey) How big is Cleveland's "digital divide", anyway? How many households own computers? How many of our neighbors have never used the Internet? Do people know about the computer center around the corner? Are some neighborhoods more "wired" than others? Does anyone out there care if City Hall goes on line? The fact is, nobody knows the answers to these questions... because no one has asked. But Digital Vision is about to change that. We're going to do a professional telephone poll of Clevelanders -- a thousand or so randomly selected adults from all incomes, ethnicities and neighborhoods -- about computers in their lives. Our polling project is called the Digital Vision Household IT Users Survey. We hope to have it finished in the next six months. Want to know more? Here's our official two-page "project description" in MS Word format. The best example we've found of a local survey like this is the City of Seattle's "IT Indicators" project. But there's also a new book out by three Kent State professors* based on a national poll, in which they asked many of the same questions we want to know about Cleveland -- and we're happy to report that one of the the authors, Dr. Karen Mossberger, is now working with the planning committee for our local project! (* Drs. Karen Mossberger, Caroline J. Tolbert, and Mary Stansbury, Virtual Inequality: Beyond the Digital Divide, Georgetown University Press)
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