Digital Inclusion
To effectively use ICTs, individuals and communities need access to technology, digital skills training, and relevant technical content and services. Governments at all levels — local, national, and regional — develop digital inclusion policies to ensure that all people benefit from new technologies. Common barriers include affordability, relevancy, and privacy concerns, among others. Digital inclusion, in policy and practice, is a posture that acknowledges the importance of ICTs and addresses the needs of “excluded” individuals and groups to benefit from ICTs. TASCHA’s digital inclusion research informs public policy and develops resources for use by public and private sector actors.
Projects
- All
- Mobile Reading Data Exchange
- Digital Skills for Digital Librarians Evaluation
- Mobile Information Literacy
- Measuring perceptions of the benefits of ICT in public libraries in the EU
- Mapping eInclusion Actors in the European Union
- e-Inclusion actors in the European Union: Theories and frameworks
- Digital Inclusion Framework
Featured Outputs
- Publications
People & Organizations
- Research Team
- Chris Coward, Principal Research Scientist & TASCHA Director, Information School
- Stacey Wedlake, Research Coordinator, Information School
Updates
- Jason Young to present on “Emerging Geographies of Digital Knowledge Politics”
- Presentation at the Community Indicators Consortium Impact Summit
- TASCHA Research Cited in Digital Inclusion Coalition Guidebook
- Developing digital skills for digital librarians
- Knowledge Politics Across Digital Divides: Talk at Development Studies Association Conference
- Mobile Information Literacy – Net Inclusion Lightning Talk
- TASCHA and partners to develop training that will boost mobile information literacy in Kenya