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Digital Inclusion and Digital Divide - Topics A-Z
Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about the digital divide and digital inclusion projects being managed by government.
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- Digital Divide - Australia (Archive)
- Archived articles and resources about trends and issues relating to the digital divide in Australia.
Added: 7 December 2005
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- Digital divide - Canada
- Articles and resources about trends and issues relating to the digital divide in Canada.
Added: 12 December 2005
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- Digital divide - United Kingdom - Archive
- Articles and resources about trends and issues relating to the digital divide in the United Kingdom.
Added: 22 December 2005
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- Digital divide: A-T - Archive
- Resources about the digital divide.
Added: 2 December 2005
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- Digital divide: U-Z - Archive
- Resources about the digital divide.
Added: 2 December 2005
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- Digital Inclusion Panel Report, United Kingdom - Archive
- This report identifies social groups most at risk of digital exclusion and actions to encourage them to take up Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).
Added: 24 November 2005
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- Digital Strategy, United Kingdom - Archive
- Articles and reports about "Connecting the UK: a digital strategy", a report published by the government in April 2005 in order to tackle the persistent digital divide and low uptake of e-government services by citizens.
Added: 24 November 2005
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- eGovernment - Connecting communities, United Kingdom - Archive
- Articles about a study commissioned by the Greater London Authority, which examines the value of being on-line for socially excluded Londoners.
Added: 23 November 2005
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- eGovernment - Connecting the countryside, United Kingdom - Archive
- Articles about a report published in 2002 which evaluates the success of Capital Modernisation Fund (CMF) funded UK online centres in rural areas.
Added: 23 November 2005
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- Inner West Families Find Way Across Digital Divide
- Primary school students in Melbourne's inner west are conquering the digital divide thanks to the combined support of the Bracks Government, corporate donors and philanthropic groups. Minister for Victorian Communities Peter Batchelor today launched a pilot project that will provide refurbished, internet-connected computers to 400 disadvantaged families for use in their homes.
Added: 5 April 2007
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- Internet Training Connecting Communities across the State
- A state-wide travelling classroom will help more than 1400 Victorians learn how to use the Internet and get online, the Minister for Community Development, Peter Batchelor, announced today.
Added: 4 October 2007
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- Digital Inclusion Briefing - Melbourne, Tuesday 16 April 2013
- In association with Accessibility Oz. Session One 08:00 - 10:30 Session Two 11:00 - 13:30, Venue: Holiday Inn, Melbourne on Flinders Street. Topics being covered include: - Mobile & Accessibility: We've been making web sites accessible for many years now, but how do you make sure that your mobile web site is responsive and accessible? Gian Wild, from Accessibility Oz will cover the important accessibility issues raised when viewing a site on a mobile device - and not all of them are covered in WCAG2. - Removing Mobile Barriers: During his presentation, David Robinson from BrowseAloud, will highlight the challenges to digital inclusion, what barriers exist on the mobile web and how they can be broken down. He will explore how this cutting edge solution can offer help for Society's most vulnerable groups by empowering them to both communicate with greater freedom and access online services independently. Email: s.mccollum@browsealoud.com to register your attendance. The event is free to attend.
Added: 10 April 2013;
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- Digital literacy boost for adult learners
- Media Release, From the Minister for Higher Education and Skills, Tuesday, 26 March 2013. "Minister for Higher Education and Skills Peter Hall today launched a new digital literacy program to be delivered by Victoria's Learn Local adult and community education providers. The Intel Easy Steps program will provide a consistent approach to improving levels of digital literacy across the state, helping individuals to learn basic computer applications, such as email and word processing, internet search, multimedia, and basic social media skills. This year, around 7, 000 individuals are expected to enrol in digital literacy courses through the state’s network of about 300 Learn Local providers..."
Added: 27 March 2013;
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- Stop excluding vulnerable Brits from digital agenda - MPs
- 'Is digital by default not simply digital exclusion by diktat', By Kelly Fiveash, Networks Correspondent, The Register, 21 March 2013. "MPs are pushing for a parliamentary debate on the large number of elderly, disabled and poor Brits who don't have access to the internet. So far, 44 politicos from all sides of the House - but heavily weighted towards Labour MPs - have signed an Early Day Motion in support of airing their views with the government in the Palace of Westminster..."
Added: 26 March 2013;
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- Digital divide persists in Canada, both in access and Internet fluency
- by Misty Harris, Postmedia News, 21 March 2013. "No matter the lip service paid to bridging Canada's digital divide, a new study finds gaps in technology-access persist. Worse still, researchers report that strides made in Internet penetration are being falsely perceived as having resolved this socioeconomic split when, in fact, the inequalities have just moved online..."
Added: 25 March 2013;
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- Online access: reaching people is about more than money
- It's time for the third sector to put its differences aside, combine forces and assist the digitally disenfranchised, by Nigel Lewis. Guardian Professional, Monday, 11 March 2013. "The government's digital strategy is on track it seems, and every department, from justice to transport, is intent on making online its default option. No one could fail to be impressed by the potential economic benefits, forecast to be some £1.2bn by 2015, simply by switching everyday interactions to the internet. But how much thought is being given to the digitally disenfranchised?..."
Added: 12 March 2013;
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- Europe's digital divide
- Access to fast, reliable web services can have a positive impact on society and the economy. But the digital divide still exists says Ian Clark, By Ian Clark. Information Today Europe, Posted on February 20, 2013. "Back in November last year, the UK government revealed that the EU had given the green light for its £530m rural broadband scheme. The scheme intends to bring superfast broadband to 90% of the country, whilst other areas will gain access to at least 2Mbps. Confirming the news, Culture Secretary Maria Miller announced: "The government will not allow parts of our country to miss out on the digital age. Britain is in a global race today. To succeed in that race we must have the infrastructure to match our aspiration, providing people who work hard with the tools they need to get on and prosper; this green light will benefit both businesses and communities across the UK." However, whilst the UK's plans are set to proceed, the future across the EU is not quite so positive..."
Added: 28 February 2013;
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- Official: More than 7 million Brits have NEVER accessed the interwebs
- Oldsters, disabled and poor all left behind, By Kelly Fiveash, Networks Correspondent. The Register, 22nd February 2013. "Brits who are disabled, over the age of 75 or poor are among the vast majority of people living in the UK who make up more than 7 million citizens found to have never been online, official government figures show. People over the age of 75 are - perhaps unsurprisingly - the age group least likely to have ever accessed the internet with 3.23 million of those UK pensioners remaining completely offline..."
Added: 26 February 2013;
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- The right analysis for the best possible impact
- Digital Agenda for Europe, 2013. "DG Connect has a vision: to make every European digital. We will achieve that by supporting ICT research & innovation and by deploying our regulatory and policy tools in order to boost economic growth and to create jobs. We will get there by setting an example as a lean and effective modern public actor. The Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG Connect) is making a call on all stakeholders and interested parties to respond to this questionnaire. By doing so, you will help us to check the evidence on which we base our priority actions in 2013 and beyond: - Do you share our view as to what we should do? - Do you have facts and figures beyond those that we have identified?..."
Added: 19 February 2013;
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- Supporting access to the Digital Strategy
- by Mark Mcleod. Government Digital Service, 21 December 2012. "Today we published the Government Approach to Assisted Digital as part of the Government Digital Strategy. Assisted Digital provision is the help and support we will provide so people who can't use digital services independently can access digital by default services. Although we co-ordinated publication, the document was developed collaboratively with Digital Leaders, departmental assisted digital leads, and with organisations working with people who are not online..."
Added: 27 December 2012;
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- Government Approach to Assisted Digital
- UK Cabinet Office, December 2012. "The Government Digital Strategy set out how government will become digital by default. By digital by default, we mean creating digital services that are so straightforward and convenient that all those who can use them will choose to do so whilst those who can’t are not excluded. 23 major services will become digital by default by March 2015 - more details on these can be found in departmental digital strategies - and all services with over 100,000 transactions each year will be redesigned (Action 5 of the Government Digital Strategy). Everyone who can use digital services independently will be encouraged to do so (Action 8 of the Government Digital Strategy), and the 18% of people who are offline will use assisted digital support (Action 9 of the Government Digital Strategy). People who need this support will be able to access a service face to face, by phone, or in another appropriate non-digital way, with someone either inputting their data into the digital system on their behalf, or helping them put their data into the digital service themselves..."
Added: 27 December 2012;
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- Bridging B.C.'s digital divide
- Ministry of Citizens' Services and Open Government, News Release 2012CITZ0004-001751, November 9, 2012. "Victoria – The B.C. government today announced it is seeking partners to help bring affordable high-speed Internet to families in remote regions of the province. The B.C. Broadband Satellite Initiative will see the B.C. government invest up to two million dollars through 2016-17 to leverage the latest generation of satellite technology. This will make access to high-speed Internet connections affordable and available to residents of remote areas of B.C. where service is not currently available. Approximately 3 per cent of B.C.'s population lives in areas where satellite technology provides the only option for a high-speed Internet connection for the foreseeable future..."
Added: 14 November 2012;
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- It Is Time for Industry, Government and Consumers To Get Serious About IT Ethics
- by Andrea Di Maio. Gartner, October 4, 2012. "Over the last many years, information technology has been celebrated as a driver of business and social innovation, with an impact which is still not fully realized and has the same scale as previous world-changing inventions such as the steam engine or electricity. Annihilating distance, compressing times, boosting productivity, creating new businesses and business models that were not even imaginable just a one or two decades ago, supporting transparency and democracy, improving public safety, health care, education… and the list goes on.. Some have also looked at the downside of this, as I highlighted in a previous posts. There are three main risk areas: • Digital divide(s) • Loss of human control and oversight • Substitution of human labor leading to permanent unemployment Let's take a look and each one..."
Added: 10 October 2012;
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- Internet usage in remote areas
- Swinburne University of Technology, Media Centre, Date posted: Thursday 4 Oct 2012. "Writing in Inside Story, Julian Thomas and Ellie Rennie discuss the reasons why people in remote areas use the internet. The average house in a remote Indigenous community uses about a third of the power consumed by a suburban home, is six times more prone to overcrowding, and probably doesn't have a home internet connection. Among the rare exceptions - at least when it comes to the internet - are twenty houses in the small communities of Kwale Kwale, Mungalawurru and Imangara in central Australia. With federal funding, these households have been given computers, internet access and training, and receive regular visits and advice..."
Added: 5 October 2012;
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- NBN won't close broadband gap, say advocates for rural communities
- Rural areas likely to remain disadvantaged, officials tell ACCAN conference, by Adam Bender. Computerworld, 5 September, 2012. "Even with the National Broadband Network (NBN), more work remains to bridge the digital divide between regional and metropolitan areas in Australia, said advocates for rural communities at the the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) conference in Sydney. The NBN will help address the rural/urban digital divide but it won't close the broadband gap, the advocates said..."
Added: 13 September 2012;
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- Conroy skips beat on digital inclusion
- By Ry Crozier. IT News, August 24, 2012. "DBCDE programs still only benefit NBN sites. The Federal Government has reserved action on recommendations by the Sinclair Review to expand digital inclusion programs beyond NBN release sites in regional Australia. The Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy yesterday released its formal response to the Sinclair Review, exactly three months after the Review was made public..."
Added: 27 August 2012;
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This category last updated: 10 April 2013
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