Whenever you talk about black people on the Net, the digital divide is the story. It's going to change. As the next wave of sites go live, it will shift from the digital divide to the digital opportunity.
"Omar Tomas Wasow" is an internet analyst who appears frequently on radio and television. Wasow tutored Oprah Winfrey in her first exploration of the Net in the 12-part series Oprah Goes Online. He is co-founder and strategic advisor for the social networking website BlackPlanet. He is currently Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton University.
Wasow's father has History of the Jews in Germany/German Jewish heritage, and his mother is African-American.
In 1995, Wasow was proclaimed by Newsweek as one of the "fifty most influential people to watch in cyberspace." Around 1999 or 2000, Wasow introduced Oprah Winfrey to electronic mail in a series of 12 appearances on her television show.
In 1999 he created one of the first major social networking sites known as Blackplanet.
In 2003, Wasow appeared in an Apple, Inc advertisement discussing their latest operating system at the time Mac OS X Panther. In 2010 Wasow appeared as a guest on Stephen Colbert's show as a guest to explain cyberwar.
Wasow is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School in New York City, where he was President of the Student Union. He then graduated from Stanford University in California with a BA degree in Race and Ethnic Relations.
More Omar Wasow on Wikipedia.And that impact will translate into success on the Internet.
[The general investor fervor, some hope, will lift the discussion of black Internet businesses beyond the gloomy government data.] Whenever you talk about black people on the Net, the digital divide is the story, ... It's going to change. As the next wave of sites go live, it will shift from the digital divide to the digital opportunity.
You can teach someone to use Excel, but if they don't know a thing about math in the first place, then it's not a very useful tool.
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