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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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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 Digital Disconnect: The Social Causes and Consequences of Digital Inequalities
Los Angeles et al.: Sage (2021), viii, 231 pp.
"Ellen Helsper goes beyond questions of digital divides and who's connected or not. She asks why and how social and digital inequalities are linked, as she reveals the tangible outcomes of socio-digital inequalities to everyday lives in an expert exploration of contemporary theory, research and prac
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(Des)iguales y (des)conectados: Políticas, actores y dilemas info-comunicacionales en América Latina /
Buenos Aires: CLACSO (2021), 296 pp.
Quality and Equity in Digital Learning: Policy Brief
Burnaby, BC: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2021), 15 pp.
"High-quality digital learning offers potential economic and social advantages but also could easily lead to a widening gap between economically advanced and low-income countries. Within countries without suitable policy, it could also generate increasing inequity between the rich, who can afford th
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Estadísticas de las Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación en los Hogares. Trimestre: Enero-Febrero-Marzo 2021
Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas e Información (INEI) (2021), 49 pp.
"El 66,8% de la población de 6 y más años de edad del país accede a Internet. Respecto a similar trimestre de 2020, se observa un aumento de 6,5 puntos porcentuales al pasar de 60,3% a 66,8%. Por área de residencia, en Lima Metropolitana la población usuaria de Internet significó el 80,9%, en
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Gender Digital Divide: Desk Review Report
Washington, DC: USAID (2021), viii, 87 pp.
"This desk review is the first phase of creating gender digital divide tools for USAID Gender Advisors. It provides an overview of the current status of the gender digital divide (with a particular focus on mobile phones and mobile Internet, although these are not the only aspects of the gender digi
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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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"What do we know about the gender digital divide for girls? To date, there is little research on gender differences in digital access for children under the age of 18. These disparities in usage limit women’s access to the full range of opportunities offered by digital. However, the limited data a
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Connecting humanity: Assessing investment needs of connecting humanity to the Internet by 2030
Geneva: ITU (2020), vi, 25 pp.
"Nearly USD 428 billion is required to achieve universal access to broadband connectivity by 2030 at the global level. This amount includes significant investment in infrastructure, investments to design and implement policy and regulatory frameworks that incentivize and promote growth in broadband
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"[Este libro] presenta ocho capítulos que se muestran críticos frente a las posibilidades y promesas de la cultura digital, denunciando que la red ha reproducido las formas de desigualdad del mundo analógico. Los autores proponen una reflexión crítica frente a ciertos discursos que se presentan
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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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The Digital Divide
Cambridge: Polity Press (2020), vi, 184 pp.
"Contrary to optimistic visions of a free internet for all, the problem of the 'digital divide' - the disparity between those with access to internet technology and those without - has persisted for close to twenty-five years. In this textbook, Jan van Dijk considers the state of digital inequality
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Affordability Report 2020
Washington, DC: Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) (2020), 51 pp.
Measuring Digital Development: Facts and Figures
Geneva: ITU (2020), 17 pp.
"Facts and Figures 2020 reveals that people in rural areas continue to face greater challenges than people in urban areas in terms of remaining connected during the lockdown, especially in developing economies. Large swathes of the rural landscape are still not covered by mobile broadband networks,
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The Gender Digital Divide Primer
USAID (2020), 8 pp.
Digital Media Inequalities: Policies Against Divides, Distrust and Discrimination
Göteborg: Nordicom (2019), 288 pp.
"Inequalities are the unwanted companions of media and communication. Traditional analogue mass media were criticized for creating inequalities by being biased, serving hegemonic interests, and accumulating far too much power in the hands of mighty industrial conglomerates. Under the digital regime,
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Measuring Digital Development: Facts and Figures 2019
Geneva: ITU (2019), ii, 11 pp.
"Welcome to the first of ITU’s Measuring Digital Development series of statistical and analytical publications that replace the annual Measuring the Information Society Report. Facts and figures 2019 offers a snapshot of the most important ICT indicators, including estimates for the current year.
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