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President Clinton, who is currently playing away games in
his battle and tour to end the digital divide, went to a computer trade
show to ask the computer industry leaders to sign up for his team and take
positions in the efforts against the digital divide. For anyone looking
for background information on the digital divide, a very useful group of
materials may be found on this subject on the Educational Cyberplayground
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Source: New York Times (NYT)
Author: MARC LACEY
Title: Clinton Uses High-Tech Show to Push Plan for Internet Parity
Source Date: April 19, 2000
Resource Type: News Article
Description/Keywords: President Clinton, Appearance, Computer Trade
Show, Digital Divide, Proposed Solutions
URL: Listed Below Article Summary
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April 19, 2000
Clinton Uses High-Tech Show to Push Plan
for Internet Parity
By MARC LACEY
CHICAGO -- During a visit to the country's largest computer trade show
on Tuesday, President Clinton wore an ergonomic pillow around his neck,
fiddled with a pager that sends and receives electronic mail and examined
a Web site that a computer expert told him could retrieve confidential
files from the Oval Office while he was on the road.
Clinton will never be
mistaken for a computer
geek. He does not send
e-mail messages. He still
speaks in awe of the idea of
ordering gifts over the
Internet. And not too long
ago, he raised his eyes at a
product as mundane as a
screen saver.
Despite his lack of expertise when it comes to the dot-com world,
Clinton has launched a tour aimed at bringing the digital revolution to
the country's computer have-nots. After stops on Monday in a poor
neighborhood near Silicon Valley and a Navajo Indian reservation in New
Mexico, Clinton took his message to the thousands of Web designers,
product developers, software specialists and others at the Comdex/Spring
2000 computer trade show.
"I came here today to ask you to set another trend -- to devote more
time and technology, more ideas and energy, to closing the digital
divide," Clinton said in a speech.
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