Digital Inclusion or Digital Divide for Older Immigrants? A Scoping Review

2020 ◽  
pp. 176-190
Author(s):  
Xin Chen ◽  
Britt Östlund ◽  
Susanne Frennert
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Older Immigrants

scholarly journals The Rural Digital Divide in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Europe—Recommendations from a Scoping Review

Informatics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Miguel-Ángel Esteban-Navarro ◽  
Miguel-Ángel García-Madurga ◽  
Tamara Morte-Nadal ◽  
Antonia-Isabel Nogales-Bocio
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
Online Databases ◽  
The Social ◽  
Policy Information ◽  
The Face ◽  
Rural World

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the digital vulnerability of many citizens of the rural world. This article identifies and analyzes the proposals made by academic literature to overcome the digital divide in the European rural world for the five-year period 2016–2020. A scoping review has been carried out according to the PRISMA methodology in the two dimensions of the digital divide: access and connectivity, and use and exploitation. Online databases were used to identify scientific articles from which, after screening, 28 key documents were selected. The results update Salemink systematic review of articles published between 1991 and 2014 on digital and rural development in Western countries and it also intends to go beyond by extracting recommendations. A variety of political, social, educational, technical and economic issues has been exposed, with a common emphasis on the empowerment of rural populations. The findings provide actionable evidence and proposals to facilitate decision-making in current policy information to overcome rural digital divide. From them, seven recommendations that could have a wide and rapid impact to minimize the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic linked to the rural digital divide are synthesized. Three lines of action in the medium term are also proposed: the evaluation of national and regional public policies; the consideration of digital inclusion as a potential instrument to reduce rural depopulation; and the training in advanced digital skills to improve the social communication processes, considered key to promote empowerment and entrepreneurship.

Policies and Strategies for Digital Inclusion

2017 ◽  
pp. 256-284
Author(s):  
Laura Alcaide Muñoz ◽  
Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar ◽  
Francisco José Alcaraz Quiles
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Government Information ◽  
Access To Services ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Efficient Delivery ◽  
Legal Frameworks ◽  
The Eu

E-government has enhanced the availability of government information, and expanding access to services, offering greater transparency and accountability for public administrations. However, previous research indicates that there are significant barriers for citizens, assuming major obstacles. In this sense, the EU and, in particular, the Spanish government has formulated policies and legal frameworks to introduce in the field of the provision of public sector services, in order to customize and to access these services. These initiatives seek to promote the development of networks and services, to improve the e-administration and the adoption of digital solutions for efficient delivery of public services, and to promote the inclusion and digital literacy. Therefore, the purpose of this chapter is to obtain a vision of government strategies adopted by Spanish regional governments to reduce the digital divide.

New Faces of Digital Divide and How to Bridge It

2018 ◽  
pp. 7248-7258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktor Freiman ◽  
Dragana Martinovic ◽  
Xavier Robichaud
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Cognitive Content ◽  
Special Groups ◽  
Political Access ◽  
Intellectual Limitations

The chapter aims to explore, through the lenses of digital divide, what are challenges to alleviating socio-economic and intellectual limitations for prosperity of each individual. Cutting-edge research is reviewed to discuss in what way new technologies and access to them really help to develop citizens who are able to contribute in creative and democratic ways to society. While much effort has been done, in the past decade, to bridge the digital divide, by resolving access issues and usage issues, the recent studies seem to indicate that the gap at all levels, nation-wide, community-wide, special groups-wide still exists and even deepens, especially regarding digital inclusion and meeting needs of at-risk population. More systematic research and innovative practical solutions are needed to address all the aspects of digital divide: physical, financial cognitive, content and political access; also, we have to consider the technological and social resonances of digital technologies in terms of digital literacy and development of critical thinking.

New Faces of Digital Divide and How to Bridge It

2019 ◽  
pp. 431-443
Author(s):  
Viktor Freiman ◽  
Dragana Martinovic ◽  
Xavier Robichaud
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Cognitive Content ◽  
Special Groups ◽  
Political Access ◽  
Intellectual Limitations

The chapter aims to explore, through the lens of digital divide, the challenges to alleviating socio-economic and intellectual limitations for prosperity of each individual. Cutting-edge research is reviewed to discuss in what way new technologies and access to them really help to develop citizens who are able to contribute in creative and democratic ways to society. While much effort has been done in the past decade to bridge the digital divide by resolving access issues and usage issues, the recent studies seem to indicate that the gap at all levels, nation-wide, community-wide, special groups-wide still exists and even deepens, especially regarding digital inclusion and meeting needs of at-risk population. More systematic research and innovative practical solutions are needed to address all the aspects of digital divide: physical, financial cognitive, content, and political access; also, we have to consider the technological and social resonances of digital technologies in terms of digital literacy and development of critical thinking.

Bridging the Digital Divide

2008 ◽  
pp. 1290-1305
Author(s):  
Anna Malina ◽  
Ann Macintosh
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Democratic Participation ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Digital Communities ◽  
Expected Outcomes ◽  
Planning Policies

Examined in this chapter is action to address the “digital divide,” and possibilities for extending e-democracy to support wider democratic participation using ICT in local communities. We describe current approaches in Scotland for tackling the digital divide, and we discuss the concept of wired communities. We also refer to “Digital Scotland” initiatives, and we outline the aims and expected outcomes from Scotland’s “Digital Communities” projects. Finally, we suggest how action research could extend electronic democratization into the two digital communities being created in Scotland. The research work we suggest would provide a framework in which to better appreciate the significance of technology in supporting e-democracy at local community levels, and in so doing, contribute knowledge to strategy and planning policies and social and digital inclusion agendas in Scotland.

Digital inclusion

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald M. Baecker
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Rich

J. C. R. Licklider, Vannevar Bush, Doug Engelbart, Ted Nelson, and Alan Kay optimistically and exuberantly imagined how computers could better the lives of people. Much of this has come to pass. The Internet supports learning by ‘students’ at all levels. Information on laws, procedures, diseases, and medical care may be found on the web. The Internet now provides the easiest, or in some cases the only, way to pay bills or order items such as books, groceries, and even clothing. It is a means of communication with family, friends, individuals one would like to meet, individuals with whom one could share insights, and potential employers. Music, films, and other means of entertainment stream to our digital devices. This implies that those for whom digital technology is not available are at a disadvantage. The gap between the technology-haves and the technology-have-nots became known in the 1990s as a digital divide. The concept is nuanced; we can speak of availability or scarcity of hardware, such as personal computers (PCs) and mobile phones; of infrastructure such as cellular networks; of communications bandwidth that enables a smooth media viewing experience; of expertise in using the technology; of commitment to its use; and of engagement in the process. Some only consume information; others contribute their ideas via methods such as blogging and tweeting. Yet a better way to describe digital technology widely accessible is the goal of social inclusion, to allow all individuals, regardless of socioeconomic status, location, race, gender, or ability or disability, to take advantage of the benefits of modern computing and telecommunications. To have terminology that is even more evocative, we shall use the more modern and descriptive term of digital inclusion. This has been defined by the International Telecommunications Union as ‘empowering people through information and communication technologies (ICTs)’. The term ‘people’ is meant here to imply all people throughout the world. This chapter will first examine the digital divide between the haves and the have-nots (often the rich and the poor) within several nations. Examples of the benefits of digital inclusion will be cited.

‘Digital indigestion’: cumbia, class and a post-digital ethos in Buenos Aires

Popular Music ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Baker
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Local Form ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
The Third ◽  
Popular Classes ◽  
Latin Americanism

AbstractThis article focuses on three recent manifestations of cumbia in Buenos Aires, Argentina: digital cumbia released by ZZK Records; retro cumbia orchestras; and a newer strand of digital cumbia, música turra. The first two are identified with the middle class, whereas the third emerged from the clases populares (‘popular classes’). Música turra is underpinned by government policies towards digital inclusion, while middle-class incursions into the traditionally working-class sphere of cumbia, too, suggest increasing social cohesion. However, the digital fascination of música turra contrasts with an embrace of the analogue and acoustic in middle-class cumbia. These developments point to the emergence of a post-digital ethos and a shift from a digital to a post-digital divide, also running along class lines, analysed here through a Bourdieusian lens of taste and distinction. While transnational in nature, the post-digital ethos appears in Buenos Aires in a distinctive local form, articulated to growing Latin Americanism and post-neoliberalism on the part of the middle class.

scholarly journals Diversity and Technology: Classroom Implications of the Digital Divide

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 9-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maya Kalyanpur ◽  
Mubina H. Kirmani
Keyword(s):  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Minority Students ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Technology Classroom ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds

This paper analyzes the intersection of technology and diversity in classrooms with reference to the implications of the inequity of access and usage for under-represented groups including low-income, minority students, students from culturally diverse backgrounds, students with disabilities, and female students. Strategies at national and individual levels to facilitate a process of digital inclusion for all children are identified.

scholarly journals Sociedade da informação e inclusão digital: uma análise crítica | Information society and digital inclusion: a critical analysis

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Augusto Mansor de Mattos ◽  
Bruna Daniela Dias Rocchetti Santos
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Economic Globalization ◽  
Cognitive Factors ◽  
Technological Determinism ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Economic Implications ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social

Resumo O presente texto faz uma leitura crítica da dinâmica da inclusão e da exclusão digital no contexto brasileiro e de suas implicações socioeconômicas, bem como demonstra algumas das falhas de interpretação calcadas em certo determinismo tecnológico e de uma visão exacerbadamente otimista acerca do papel das chamadas novas Tecnologias da Informação e da Comunicação (TICs) no Capitalismo Contemporâneo. Além disso, pretende-se abordar a relação entre a exclusão social, a exclusão digital e o fenômeno da globalização, além de apontar a relevância dos fatores qualitativo e cognitivo no que se refere às políticas públicas de inclusão digital.  Palavras-chave capitalismo contemporâneo; sociedade da informação; inclusão digital; exclusão digital; globalização Abstract This paper aims to analyze the dynamics of the digital divide in the Brazilian context and its socio-economic implications, as well to as it demonstrates some of the imperfections of some studies backed up by a kind of technological determinism and of an extremely optimistic view about the Information Technologies. Moreover, it intends to interpret the relation between the social exclusion, the digital divide and the phenomenon of the economic globalization, beyond highlighting the relevance of the qualitative and cognitive factors related to the public policies of digital inclusion. Keywords contemporary capitalism; information society; digital inclusion; digital divide;  globalization

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