Subject: Re: Markle initiative for universal e-mail
Mary G Jones (mgjones@cqi.com)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 09:57:38 -0400
Message-Id: <199804201259.IAA18203@raptor.cqi.com> From: "Mary G Jones" <mgjones@cqi.com> To: <roundtable@cni.org> Subject: Re: Markle initiative for universal e-mail Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 09:57:38 -0400
On Thu, April 16, 1998, Coralee Whitcomb <cwhitcom@bentley.edu> wrote:
>
> The act of getting a computerphobic adult to incorporate email into
> their lives is a much, much more complicated process than putting a
> computer in their face and online services (advanced or not) down the
> street. Most of us were gifted with access and training on computers
> either at work or school. We are asking computer illiterate adults
> of today to come up with the money, the time, and the drive to develop
> this capacity on their own.
>
> I hope the Markle Foundation will look at the access challeng as more
> than simply supplying equipment and telecommunication services.
Dear Coralee:
I was most interested in the project you are running in downtown Boston,
Virtually Wired. I am making a study of the heatlh care access of low
income and minority urban populations, their access to and acceptance of
computeres and telecommunciations, the barriers they encounter to health
care access and the extent to which the new information technologies can
enhance their access. In looking at their acceptance of communciations
technology, I am gather ing data on their use of ocmputers so I was
wondering if you keep statistics or have some general sense of the
demographics of your Virtually wired population of users, the types of
information they are seeking or the extent to which they use it for
communcaitons. Can you give me some details on your project users?
warm regards, Mary G. Jones
Mary G. Jones
<mgjones@cqi.com>
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