There are only a few loose indicators of how good a conference program is. We have the satisfaction of the participants (who by definition get very divided on some presentations like this one), feedback from the speakers, and sometimes there is the pride of seeing something we scheduled one or two years ago become a globally hot topic.

After women in technology (for which I caught a lot of heat back in 2006, now a politically correct discussion), the digital divide at home seems to get a lot of attention after a Pew study that found 49% of Americans have “few tech assets”.

Time to look at our Digital Divide: Bringing it home panel video again, with Sugata Mitra, Lara Srivastava, Pukul Rana, Nathan Eagle and the guy who came up with the idea (you see I actually don’t deserve much credit ;), mister Galipeau.

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