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Democracia e representatividade: Novas formas de representação diante da transformação digital
São Paulo: Instituto Lula; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2022), 65 pp.
"Entre os achados do trabalho quantiqualitativo que partiu de um universo de 229 participantes: lideranças e militantes da cidade, do campo, das florestas e das águas das diferentes regiões brasileiras. Destaca-se que 47% do público entrevistado tem dificuldade no uso da internet; pessoas negras
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Revisiting Digital Inclusion: A Survey of Theory, Measurement and Recent Research
Manchester: Centre for Digital Development (2022), 50 pp.
"Focusing on the internet as a foundational technology, this paper begins by summarising recent developments in digital inclusion theory, particularly as this relates to developing countries. It sets out a framework of core components of digital inclusion - including access/use, quality of access/us
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The Mobile Economy 2022
GSMA (2022), 44 pp.
"The mobile industry has been instrumental in extending connectivity to people around the world. In 2021, the number of mobile internet subscribers reached 4.2 billion people globally. Operators’ investments in network infrastructure over the last decade have helped to shrink the coverage gap for
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Meaningful Connectivity for Rural Communities: Geographic Barriers & Policy Strategies for Digital Inclusion
Washington, DC: Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI); World Wide Web Foundation (2022), 23 pp.
"This report details the urban-rural connectivity gap in nine low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and what that means for their potential to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals [...] Across all nine countries [Colombia, India, Indonesia, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda, Mozambique, South Af
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What is an Ideal Internet to You? A Global Exploration of Digital Rights Trends
Pollicy (2022), 56 pp.
"This white paper seeks to provide an overview of the core thematic issues around digital rights and digital safety across the world. The content builds off a global mapping exercise of organisations and knowledge, predominantly focused on Africa and the Middle East, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Eas
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Why addressing digital inequality should be a priority
Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC), volume 89, issue 3: e12255 (2022), 12 pp.
"This article addresses the multifaceted and far-reaching implications of digital inequality (DI), drawing upon emerging trends and examples. The aim is to sensitize policymakers, practitioners, and academics to issues surrounding DI and foster a common and deeper understanding among relevant stakeh
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The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2022
London: GSMA (2022), 68 pp.
"1. Women’s uptake of mobile internet in lowand middle-income countries continues to increase, but the rate of adoption has slowed. Across low- and middle-income countries, 60 per cent of women now use mobile internet. Only 59 million additional women in low-and middle-income countries started usi
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E-learning in Thailand: Mapping the digital divide
Geneva: ITU (2022), xi, 53 pp.
"The study's primary objectives were to assess the state of data on access to digital devices and connectivity in schools in Thailand, which are crucial enablers for e-learning initiatives, and to map the state of access to and use of these devices and connectivity so as to identify potential gaps.
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Digital Access and Barriers in Displacement-Affected Communities in White Nile, Sudan: Results of a Connectivity Needs and Usage Assessment (CoNUA) by the Norwegian Refugee Council, the GSMA and REACH Initiative
London: GSMA (2022), 38 pp.
"This report shares findings on the access and use of mobile technology among South Sudanese refugees and the communities that host them in three areas of White Nile, Sudan. White Nile is a state in southern Sudan sharing a border and refugee crossing points with South Sudan. It is home to nearly 70
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Geographies of Digital Exclusion: Data and Inequality
London: Pluto Press (2022), xiii, 194 pp.
"Today's urban environments are layered with data and algorithms that fundamentally shape how we perceive and move through space. But are our digitally dense environments continuing to amplify inequalities rather than alleviate them? This book looks at the key contours of information inequality, and
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Digital Inequality Beyond the Digital Divide: Conceptualizing Adverse Digital Incorporation in the Global South
Information Technology for Development, volume 28, issue 4 (2022), pp. 688-704
"Digital systems are significantly associated with inequality in the global South. That association has traditionally been understood in terms of the digital divide or related terminologies whose core conceptualization is the exclusion of some groups from the benefits of digital systems. However, wi
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Measuring Digital Development: Facts and Figures 2022
Deep Insights
Geneva: ITU (2022), iv, 26 pp.
"As the world welcomes its 8 billionth inhabitant, an estimated 5.3 billion people – roughly 66 per cent of the global population – are using the Internet. Yet some 2.7 billion people worldwide remain totally offline, with universal connectivity still a distant prospect in least developed countr
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Digital Rights Are Human Rights: An Introduction to the State of Affairs and Challenges in Africa
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2022), 7 pp.
"In sub-Saharan Africa, 495 million people (46 percent of the population) subscribed to mobile phones in 2020, however, the cost of accessing the internet is very high and many African Governments are renowned for restricting access to the internet to limit critics and their opposition through inter
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Redes compartidas de Tseltales y Zapotecas: Los caminos hacia un internet pluriversal
Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania (2022), 24 pp.
"Este trabajo de investigación examina el surgimiento de las redes compartidas en comunidades tseltales y zapotecas de Chiapas y Oaxaca (México): la primera milla de señal de internet compartido que articulan la infraestructura de interconexión y los valores de convivencia para extender el inter
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Representatividade, inclusão e democracia no Brasil: Um olhar para a transformação digital
São Paulo: Instituto Lula; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2022), 64 pp.
"O capítulo 1, “Reconhecimento e representação: sobre vozes, epistemicídio e resistências”, investiga e discute as formas, contextos e a constituição sóciohistórica, econômica e cultural da sociedade brasileira contemporânea e de seus grupos estigmatizados e precarizados, enfatizando
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"El estudio se compone de dos secciones. En la primera se describe el área de estudio, de las organizaciones indígenas involucradas en la investigación representados por organizaciones. En la segunda sección se analizan los medios de comunicación existentes, y el grado de conectividad que tie
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Measuring Digital Development: Facts and Figures 2021
Geneva: ITU (2021), iv, 26 pp.
"An estimated 4.9 billion people are using the Internet in 2021, according to latest estimates in this 2021 edition of Measuring Digital Development: Facts and figures. That means that roughly 63 per cent of the world’s population is now online – an increase of 17 per cent – with almost 800 mi
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The State of Mobile Internet Connectivity 2022
London: GSMA (2021), 76 pp.
"Mobile internet use has reached 55% of the world's population. By the end of 2021, 4.3 billion people were using mobile internet, an increase of almost 300 million since the end of 2020. Growth in mobile internet adoption has almost entirely been driven by people living in low- and middle-income co
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Telecommunications/ICTs for rural and remote areas. Study period 2018-2021
Geneva: ITU (2021), xiii, 90 pp.
"There is need for further studies focusing on access to broadband services and how emerging technologies can be used to transform rural and remote areas into digital economies.
There is no one-size-fits-all model for financing rural connectivity and engaging all stakeholders, but creating public-pr
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Universal Service and Access Funds in Latin America & The Caribbean
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI); Internet Society (2021), 65 pp.
"Universal Service and Access Funds (USAFs) have been used by governments in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries since the 80s/90s to address telecommunication related gaps. While their existence is not free from criticism, they are an instrument that has been created to achieve universalit
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