Digital Divide
The digital divide refers to the gap between those able to benefit from the digital age and those who are not. The concern is that people without access to the Internet and other information and communication technologies will be disadvantaged, as they are unable or less able to obtain digital information, shop online, participate democratically, or learn skills and offer skills. This resulted in programs to give computers and related services to people without access. Since the 1990s, a potent global movement, including a series of intergovernmental summit meetings, were conducted to "close the digital divide". Since then, this movement …
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CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 16 April 2024 English
A field with its roots established in the 1950s, artificial intelligence (AI) is suddenly much more in the public eye and capable of doing useful things for casual users as …
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CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 8 April 2024 English
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isolating ground and the fight against the digital divide. stations, thereby reducing their utility (Boschetti …
IRPP: Institut de recherche en politiques publiques · 5 April 2024 English
52 The New Mobility Era: Leveraging Digital Technologies for More Equitable, Efficient and Effective Public Transportation Ata Khan and Ren Thomas IN BRIEF Digital technologies have the potential to enhance …
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AIC: Agricultural Institute of Canada · 31 March 2024 English
The success of the Quebec pilot, combined with the identified need across the agriculture sector for more training opportunities for women led to the expansion of the program Canada-wide and …
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CHRC: Canadian Human Rights Commission · 28 March 2024 English
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economic and social disparities and deepened the digital divide. It has also resulted in increased surveillance …
IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 12 March 2024 English
In global environmental talks in 2023, the focus across nearly all issue areas was funding implementation and reviewing performance.The year saw the last of the COVID pandemic-delayed milestones completed. Countries …
Other commitments included addressing the digital divide, plastic pollution, and policy integration …
CADTH: Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health · 11 March 2024 English
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technology and those who cannot (i.e., the “digital divide”).72,73 • Inequitable access may also occur …
CDA: Conference of Defence Associations Institute · 8 March 2024 English
The Second World War gave birth to the Atlantic Charter, the UN Charter, the Paris Peace Treaties, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Fourth Geneva Convention, and the Genocide …
fight against precariousness, security, the digital divide, in short, all elements that have contributed …
CDA: Conference of Defence Associations Institute · 7 March 2024 English
The Second World War gave birth to the Atlantic Charter, the UN Charter, the Paris Peace Treaties, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Fourth Geneva Convention, and the Genocide …
fight against precariousness, security, the digital divide, in short, all elements that have contributed …
CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 6 March 2024 English
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emotional violence; • contribution to the gender digital divide, and exclusion of women from the digital public …
