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Digital inclusion. Digital inclusion involves the activities necessary to ensure equitable access to and use of information and communication technologies for participation in social and economic life including for education, social services, health, social and community participation. Digital inclusion includes access to affordable broadband ...
The digital divide is the unequal access to digital technology, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, and the internet. [ 1][ 2] The digital divide worsens inequality around access to information and resources. In the Information Age, people without access to the Internet and other technology are at a disadvantage, for they are unable or ...
Digital literacy is an individual's ability to find, evaluate, and communicate information using typing or digital media platforms. It is a combination of both technical and cognitive abilities in using information and communication technologies to create, evaluate, and share information. [ 1]
t. e. Digital rights are those human rights and legal rights that allow individuals to access, use, create, and publish digital media or to access and use computers, other electronic devices, and telecommunications networks.
The digital divide in the United States refers to inequalities between individuals, households, and other groups of different demographic and socioeconomic levels in access to information and communication technologies ("ICTs") and in the knowledge and skills needed to effectively use the information gained from connecting. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Web accessibility, or eAccessibility, [ 1] is the inclusive practice of ensuring there are no barriers that prevent interaction with, or access to, websites on the World Wide Web by people with physical disabilities, situational disabilities, and socio-economic restrictions on bandwidth and speed. When sites are correctly designed, developed ...
The term digital citizen is used with different meanings. According to the definition provided by Karen Mossberger, one of the authors of Digital Citizenship: The Internet, Society, and Participation, [ 1] digital citizens are "those who use the internet regularly and effectively." In this sense, a digital citizen is a person using information ...
The digital divide is an economic and social inequality with regard to access to, use of, or impact of information and communication technologies (ICT). [1] Factors causing the divide can vary depending on the country and culture, as can the potential solutions for minimizing or closing the divide.