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La transición digital: Retos y oportunidades para Iberoamérica
Madrid: Fundación Carolina (2021), 216 pp.
From Digital Divide to Digital Justice in the Global South: Conceptualising Adverse Digital Incorporation
Manchester: Centre for Digital Development (2021), 13 pp.
"The connection between digital and inequality has traditionally been understood in terms of the digital divide or of forms of digital inequality whose core conceptualisation is exclusion. This paper argues that, as the global South moves into a digital development paradigm of growing breadth and de
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Mobile Training Center: Closing the Digital Divide for Marginalized Youth. Skills to Succeed Bangladesh
Save the Children (2021), 2 pp.
"The opportunity for further growth in the ICT sector by leveraging the sizeable youth workforce, including females, is immense. The Skills to Succeed program in Bangladesh helps vulnerable youth (ages 15-24), living in slum communities, develop employability, ICT technical and entrepreneurship skil
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"The Serbian government prioritizes digitalization. Serbia’s digital transformation accelerated in 2017 with the government’s focus on building a digital government, or “digitalization” as defined by Serbians, and Serbia’s participation in the Digital Agenda for the Western Balkans. As one
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"Although the internet facilitates connection, participation, and engagement, there is a need for new and innovative strategies for closing the gender digital divide in Uganda. A socio-economic, political, and robustic legal approach is needed to close the gender digital divide. This requires regula
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Desigualdades digitales: Aproximación sociojurídica al acceso a Internet en Colombia
Bogotá: Dejusticia (2021), 106 pp.
"En este texto nos preguntamos, en concreto, por los efectos de la desigualdad económica en el acceso a las tecnologías digitales, en especial a Internet y, por ende, a los derechos que se ejercen a través suyo. También nos preguntamos por la caracterización jurídica del acceso a Internet, tan
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Digital Ecosystem Framework
USAID; Digital Frontiers Project (2021), 13 pp.
"The Digital Ecosystem Framework is organized around three separate, overlapping pillars:
Digital Infrastructure and Adoption: the resources that make digital systems possible and how individuals and organizations access and use these resources;
Digital Society, Rights, and Governance: how digital t
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Practicing Sovereignty: Digital Involvement in Times of Crises
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2021), 430 pp.
"This book frames digital sovereignty as a right to be claimed and a process constantly in the making, as a condition of the ability to critically partake in the digital transformation. Emphasizing a political and transformative significance of the term, this interdisciplinary publication gathers sc
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Pandemic in the Internet age: From second wave to new normal, recovery, adaptation and resilience
Geneva: ITU (2021), ix, 96 pp.
"ICTs have an enormous role to play in helping society adapt to the dislocations caused by the pandemic. This enhanced role comes in addition to the already central part that digital technologies have assumed in driving innovation, digital disruption and economic growth and development, particularly
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Digital Inclusion Across the Americas and the Caribbean
Social Inclusion, volume 8, issue 2 (2020), pp. 244-259
"This research brings together scholarship across the Americas and Caribbean to examine digital inclusion initiatives in the following countries: Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica, the United States, and Canada. Across the cases, several themes emerge that offer important indicator
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From Digital Divide to Social Inclusion: A Tale of Mobile Platform Empowerment in Rural Areas
Sustainability, volume 12, issue 6: 2424 (2020), 16 pp.
"The digital divide in rural areas is an important social issue, especially in developing countries. Although Internet and broadband penetration have increased in the world generally, there are many obstacles for rural China to get access to ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and its ser
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Digital Inclusion in Mediated Peace Processes: How Technology Can Enhance Participation
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2020), 44 pp.
"Inclusion in peace processes is conventionally understood in “offline” terms, such as being physically present at the negotiation table. However, digital technology can support a mediator’s efforts to integrate a broad variety of perspectives, interests, and needs into a peace process. This r
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Digital Inclusion Across the Globe: What is Being Done to Tackle Digital Inequities?
Social Inclusion, volume 8, issue 2 (2020), pp. 132-259
"There is a large body of research that has examined digital inequities, inequalities, and divides—i.e., those countries, communities, and individuals digitally left behind or disadvantaged. Whereas we know quite a lot about what is lacking and for whom, there is less focus on what works to allevi
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Women, ICT and Emergency Telecommunications: Opportunities and Constraints
Geneva: ITU (2020), x, 80 pp.
"In the 1991 cyclones that hit Bangladesh, 90 per cent of the 140 000 victims were women. In the deadly heat waves that hit France in 2003, most fatalities were elderly women. During the 2005 Hurricane Katrina emergency in New Orleans, most of the victims were Afro-American women and their children.
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Making Open Development Inclusive: Lessons from IDRC Research
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2020), xiv, 498 pp.
"Making Open Development Inclusive: Lessons from IDRC Research focuses on the connection between openness and inclusion in global development. It brings together the latest research that cuts across a wide variety of political, economic, and social arenas - from governance to education to entreprene
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"Kenya’s digital ecosystem has significant strengths not yet fully leveraged:
• Political interest in digital technology at national and county level: The Government of Kenya’s
(GoK) digital economy blueprint, ICT Masterplan, and eCitizen (government service platform for
Kenyan citizens and re
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Digital Inequalities in the Global South
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xvii, 372 pp.
"This book discusses how digital inequalities today may lead to other types of inequalities in the Global South. Contributions to this collection move past discussing an access problem - a binary division between 'haves and have-nots' - to analyse complex inequalities in the internet use, benefits,
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#UnderPressure: Digital Civil Society
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2020), 56 pp.
"The Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) supports civil society actors worldwide in their advocacy for democracy and peace, encourages dialogue within civil society and contributes to the protection of minorities and persons at risk. With the fellowships of the CrossCulture Programme (CCP), ifa
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Connected: How a Mexican Village Built its Own Cell Phone Network
Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press (2020), xiii, 259 pp.
"This is the true story of how, against all odds, a remote Mexican pueblo built its own autonomous cell phone network – without help from telecom companies or the government. Anthropologist Roberto J. González paints a vivid and nuanced picture of life in a Oaxaca mountain village and the collect
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