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Digital inclusion beyond access: The struggle for a sustainable and accountable digital equality

October 16, 2019

Speaker: Norbert Wildermuth (Roskilde University)

The ongoing growth in data connectivity and the rapid proliferation of basic mobile phones (lately of internet-enabled feature and smart phones) throughout the Global South, has questioned the concept of the digital divide. However, the online experiences of worldwide internet users differ greatly in quantity and quality. In his lecture, Dr. Norbert Wildermuth argues for the significance of a continued systematic exploration, that is data-based and qualitative attempts to determine the specific nature and extent of structural asymmetries within and between nation states subsumed under the concept of digital divide.

With the case of Kenya in sight, the lecture will facilitate an understanding of the digital divide and its social consequences beyond a conceptualization that primarily refers to the digital divide in terms of broadband penetration, or the technical quality of access measured in transmission speed, quality of service and latency. Dr. Wildermuth will share his understanding of how the next billion(s) of internet users, aptly referred to as The Other Half, can be provided with opportunities to digitally connect, and no less important what the continued barriers to this potentiality are.

Tagged With: Digital Divide, Digital inclusion

Mozilla Internet Health Report 2019

April 29, 2019

More than half of the world’s population is now online, but access alone says nothing about the quality and affordability of that internet experience. The speed of internet access is as important to overcoming digital divides as providing affordable access in the first place.

This annual report is a call to action to recognize the things that are having an impact on the internet today through research and analysis, and to embrace the notion that we as humans can change how we make money, govern societies, and interact with one another online.

Click here to download the report.

Filed Under: *DIGITAL ROUTES, Awareness Raising, ICT4D (Information Communication Technologies for Development), Publications (published in print and/or online) Tagged With: Digital Divide

Digital Empowerment of Girls (Plan International briefing paper, 2018)

October 11, 2018

Digital technologies have a strong potential to empower girls and women economically and socially. Girls feel safer and more connected when they have a mobile phone, and they use mobile phones to save time and money and access education opportunities. Yet girls and women are, on average, less likely than men to own a mobile phone, use mobile data, social media apps or SMS.  There is also a stark gender disparity in access to the Internet, which limits the ability of girls and women to benefit from many innovations of the digital economy, such as digital payments and mobile money. The gender disparity in access to technology is compounded by a significant gender divide in terms of career and academic aspirations related to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).

This briefing paper argues that promoting girls’ digital literacy and closing the digital gender gap will play an important role in achieving gender equality and promoting the rights of girls and women worldwide. Indeed, bridging the digital gender divide is essential in ensuring girls and women are not left behind in an increasingly digital future. The paper also argues that actions promoting girls’ digital empowerment should be guided by the principle of engaging girls and women as active, capable partners in our work, not merely passive recipients or targets. Rather than making assumptions about what girls want and need from technology, it is important to work together with girls to strengthen and develop their use and creation of digital tools.

Click here for full paper.

Filed Under: Children, ICT4D (Information Communication Technologies for Development), Publications (published in print and/or online) Tagged With: Digital Divide, Girls

Social Media Use Continues to Rise in Developing Countries but Plateaus Across Developed Ones (Pew Research Center report, 2018)

July 1, 2018

In recent years, there have been doubts raised about the overall benefits of internet access and social media use. Concerns or no, the share of people who use the internet or own a smartphone continues to expand in the developing world and remains high in developed nations. When it
comes to social media use, people in emerging and developing markets are fast approaching levels seen in more advanced economies. In addition, as people in advanced economies reach the upper bounds of internet penetration, the digital divide continues to narrow between wealthy and
developing countries.

Click here for full report.

Filed Under: *REGION: Global, Publications (published in print and/or online), Social Media Tagged With: Digital Divide, Internet

Mapping research in gender and digital technology (APC Study, 2018)

March 29, 2018

Between January and November 2017, APC carried out a mapping study of the research in gender and digital technology taking place in or concerning middle and low-income countries in the last decade (2006-2017). The study focuses on information and communications technologies and the internet in particular but broadly encompasses digital technology and its impact on gender.

This publication is the final output of that research project. The objective is to map knowledge production in the field of gender and digital technology and support gender inclusion in the IDRC Networked Economies programme.

Click here for full study.

Filed Under: Gender, ICT4D (Information Communication Technologies for Development), Publications (published in print and/or online) Tagged With: Digital Divide, Feminism

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