Microsoft, Comcast try to bridge the Digital Divide

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/faster-forward/post/microsoft-comcast-try-to-bridge-the-digital-divide/2011/09/20/gIQAbfLziK_blog.html

Microsoft and Comcast are beginning attempts to bridge the "digital divide", the gap between people who can afford technology and people who can't, through programs to make technology more affordable and accessible. 
Stakeholders:  low-income households, technology companies, schools
Main social issue is equality of access, which pertains to making sure that everyone has access to the same technology.
Areas of Impact: Education (computers for students), Politics and Government (laws to make more of these programs, support/fight programs)
My opinion:  It is a good thing that companies are making an effort to allow access to technology by everyone.  The position that the government should not interfere because people/nature/social evolution should take its course does not work when there are resources required for success that are denied to a group by outside circumstances.  The government should back these programs by rewarding companies that do these programs and penalizing those that do not.