Thanks to Boris at The Next Web for highlighting this problem again.

It is not news to me, but somehow it catches the internet geek squads by surprise that 20% of the US population has not accessed the internet or email ever. According to the Parks Study Report nearly one third of the head of house hold had never used a computer to generate a document.

It’s a topic that I have been ‘hot’ on for the last year and a half.  Colleagues of mine in Europe were incredulous that interent access is an issue here.  I see it as one of the barriers to access for women, who in rural areas have even fewer resources to access the internet and enter the web 2.0 world.

It will take monumental efforts by government and industry to finish re-cabling North America and to get us all ‘up to speed’.