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Connecting the Digital Underclass

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Enhancing Digital Equity

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This chapter focuses on digital equity by arguing that it is a new civic right that is increasingly vital in our hyper-connected societies which must be promoted and protected. Digital equity is necessary for political and cultural participation, employment, lifelong learning and access to essential services. However, we need to expand this notion provided by “The National Digital Inclusion Alliance” and look beyond the traditional digital inequalities and include the new forms of inequalities arising with the advent of algorithms. If we want to promote a truly digitally inclusive society, we should be able to address not only the uneven access to and use of ICTs, but also the unequal treatment deriving from AI and algorithms.

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Ragnedda, M. (2020). Connecting the Digital Underclass. In: Enhancing Digital Equity. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49079-9_5

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