Danica Radovanović discusses the detrimental effects of the digital gender divide, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, and explores solutions to this growing issue.
Fostering Gender Equality for Digital Future and Innovation
Category: digital inclusion
In the search of freedom to information access and digital resilience
This essay I wrote was originally published for the International Day for Universal Access to Information. It highlights the importance of access to information to protect and promote fundamental freedoms.
Call for Abstracts: Springer book on Digital Literacy and Meaningful Connectivity
Does your work involve digital literacy and/or digital inclusion? Please consider contributing to the forthcoming multidisciplinary book Digital Literacy – A Human-Centric Approach to Meaningful Connectivity edited by yours truly, and published by Springer. Please see the details in the post.
Collaboration with PRIO on the NORM – a new project on the Digital Silk Road
I am happy and excited to announce that Basic Internet Foundation, and yours truly, is collaborating with PRIO (The Peace Research Institute Oslo) on the NORM project. NORM is the new project on the Digital Silk Road and has been funded by the Norwegian Research Council (Norges forskningsråd).
Google’s Next Billion Users fosters Inclusion and Digital Literacy
A couple of weeks ago, I was invited by Google’s Next Billion Users initiative for an expert interview. I had the pleasure to have an inspiring conversation with the core team, and learn about the research and design methods behind this Google’s project. For those of you who are not familiar, Next Billion Users (NBU) is an initiative with an emphasis on the value of user research in the low and middle-income countries.
A human-centric approach to a meaningful connectivity
The basic internet connectivity is not enough. We need a new narrative for purposeful human-centric connectivity, with its goal to connect 3.5 billion people not included in this digital revolution. Here, I am discussing the following dynamics we need to consider that would influence the connectivity, access to tools, skills, and improved livelihoods.
New book contribution: Digital Inequalities in the Global South
It’s been a productive publishing season here, and a brand new book I contributed to is out. I co-authored the book chapter Digital Infrastructure Enabling Platforms for Health Information and Education in the Global South in Digital Inequalities in the Global South, edited by M Ragnedda and A Gladkova. This …