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"Mapping subnational gender gaps in internet and mobile adoption using social media data" maps digital gender gaps across 2,075 regions in 117 LMICs. In 2025, women were 19% less likely to use the internet and 8% less likely to own a mobile phone. #DigitalDivide buff.ly/zkCO7Uj

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Rural practitioners are struggling against a wave of structural barriers, from unreliable internet to insufficient public defense, making it nearly impossible to serve their communities effectively.

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#WA #CitizenPortal #DigitalDivide #LegalAccess #InfrastructureGaps

AI can suggest what to charge, how to advertise or how to start a business. It cannot provide electricity, a sewing machine, finance or local knowledge. Access is only the beginning, Komla Tsey writes. #AI #DigitalDivide

Lake County is putting the brakes on a sole-source contract with PlaceWorks for its housing element, opting instead for a competitive bid process after community concerns were raised.

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#LakeCounty #CA #CitizenPortal #DigitalDivide #HousingDevelopment #CommunityOutreach

A systematic review of the second- and third-level digital divide shows research since 2011 focused mostly on internet use, while third-level outcomes remain underexplored. Most determinants studied are sociodemographic and socioeconomic. #DigitalDivide doi.org/10.1016/j.te...

digitalLIFT believes that digital inclusion is an ecosystem. Our impact comes not just from what we do, but from what we enable others to do.

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#DigitalInclusionEcosystem #DigitalDivide #CommunityRelationships #digitalLIFT

Forty years after the UN's Declaration on the Right to Development, promises remain unmet, from digital access gaps to unequal footing in the AI race

The UN chief's new blueprint aims to close these gaps, but as before, relies on political will to happen

#RightToDevelopment
#UN
#DigitalDivide

Even with near-universal internet, material access still shapes digital inequality: device diversity and maintenance costs affect skills, use, and outcomes. #DigitalDivide #InternetAccess #DigitalSkills doi.org/10.1177/1461...

"DIGITAL DIVIDE'S THREE TIERS INTERACTION" This conceptual model frames the digital divide as access, use, and outcomes, and argues that outcomes depend on how well technology fits user tasks and skills. #DigitalDivide #TaskTechnologyFit #ICT doi.org/10.48009/4_i...

The digital divide has three orders: access to internet-enabled devices, the skills to use them, and differences in how digital media is used and for what ends. #DigitalDivide #DigitalSkills #Participation doi.org/10.1016/b978...

Across 31 Chinese provinces, poverty is a major driver of regional digital divide patterns, with richer eastern provinces scoring higher on digital development than poorer rural regions. #DigitalDivide #ICT #China doi.org/10.1108/lht-...

In China, lower digital access, weaker skills, and worse digital outcomes are each linked to lower happiness, with effects differing by age, gender, education, and region. #DigitalDivide #Happiness #China doi.org/10.1108/itp-...

As regulators and lawmakers evaluate the future of the Universal Service Fund, the National Lifeline Association's survey data provides a clear picture of how #Lifeline empowers households by bridging the #DigitalDivide. #HomeworkGap nalalifeline.org/blog/2026-an...

Digital divide gaps are interlinked, with motivation and skills central in shaping inequality, including lack of interest in IT, low motivation to learn, and limited operating skills. #DigitalDivide #DigitalSkills #Motivation doi.org/10.1080/0144...

Digital access is a process, moving from motivation to physical access, skills, and usage; the most important effects are unequal benefits and unequal social participation. #DigitalDivide #DigitalAccess #Participation doi.org/10.1002/9781...

WEBINAR 22 SEP 19:00 UTC - ISOC Pulse - Internet Frontiers: Navigating Data to Inform Public Discourse
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@pulse.internetsociety.org on connecting the unconnected, with @commtechny.bsky.social, @connecthumanity.bsky.social, ISOC-NY and more.

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About once a year, our regional weekly paper (Monterey County, home of cash sinkholes Pebble Beach and Carmel) does a #broadband #DigitalDivide update. Embarrassing every time.