Covid-19 and the digital divide 50-70yr olds
How did the pandemic effect the digital experiences of older adults (50-70) and organisations supporting them?
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Digital Poverty in the UK: A socio-economic assessment of the implications of digital poverty in the UK.
Prepared by Deloitte for the DPA, this report will help improve the wider public’s understanding of digital poverty.
Tech4Schools Evaluation
The role and importance of digital technologies for supporting learning in educational settings has been clearly identified such that “learning facilitated and supported by digital technologies, is seen as an essential part of formal education” (Harju et al., 2019, p. 388). The use of digital technology in school affords learners with a range of learning opportunities and can support their development (Mädamürk et al., 2021). Digital technology also can “diversify and enrich teaching in schools” (Harju et al., 2019, p. 389). However, it is important to acknowledge that while digital technology can support learning, it can also provide opportunities to avoid learning activities with the impact of digital technology yielding small but heterogenous results for academic functioning (Hietajärvi er al., 2022).
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Ofcom communications affordability tracker
Ofcom regularly monitors people’s experience of communications services. This summary sets out the findings from our latest research into the affordability of home broadband, mobile phone, landline and pay-TV services.
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Digital inclusion for ethnic, elderly and disabled populations is key for social inclusion
How can we include vulnerable populations in the digital domain and make sense of their cultural and social specificities?
Bridging the Gap
The Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO) launched the Bridging the Gap Report, highlighting the need for greater international, multilateral cooperation to close the digital divide and ensure all nations can benefit from digital economies.
Investigating how the interaction between individual andcircumstantial determinants influence the emergence ofdigital poverty: a post-pandemic survey among families withchildren in England
This paper explores Digital Poverty (DP) in England by adopting the DP Alliance’s theoretical framework
Local communities and the internet ecosystem: Scaling solutions to data poverty in the UK
Written by Data Poverty Lab Fellow, Kat Dixon, this report invites us to question the internet’s role in society, the potential for future technologies, and the necessity of community design of the web.
Understanding Digital Poverty and Inequality in the UK
As digital technology has become increasingly integrated with modern life, the ability to digitally engage has become more and more essential to interacting fully with society and the economy.
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Digital Poverty in the UK
As every aspect of life – from job seeking to health care – moves online,
digital connectivity is a daily necessity, not a luxury. Against the
backdrop of the UK’s worst cost of living crisis in 40 years, discussions
about fuel and food poverty are now joined by a new concern with
what has become known as digital poverty – challenges affording
the cost of online connectivity and devices.
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UK Digital Poverty Evidence Review 2022
This report is a landscape review of the qualitative and quantitative evidence around digital poverty, digital inequality, and digital exclusion/inclusion that has emerged in roughly the last decade.
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Building Mobile Britain: The Case for Local Authority Digital Champions
There are many benefits of digital transformation including the flexibility it gives us to interact with residents and colleagues. We have seen the way in which hybrid and virtual meetings have enabled us to meet with fellow councillors and the public from across the country, without time consuming and environmentally impactful travel, allowing for critical decision making to be made democratically and without delay during times of emergency.
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