Tag Archives: Digital Inclusion

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Student projects: Digital Divide and Social Inclusion of Homeless People

This entry was posted in Amsterdam Digital Divide Community Service Education ICT4D ICT4D research Information and Communication Technologies Sustainable Development Goals Urban digital divide User tests User-centred design and tagged Context analysis Digital Inclusion homeless people on March 4, 2019 by Anna Bon.

In the framework  of the W4RA research program to tackle Global Challenges and bridge the Digital Divide,  five students Information Science set out to map the contours of digital exclusion within our own urban, wealthy, and highly connected context. Carlbandro Edoga and  Marc Hegeman examined the obstacles homeless people face in urban areas of the […]

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Student project: Virtual Agents to Close the Digital Gap

This entry was posted in ICT4D research Information and Communication Technologies User-centred design and tagged Digital Agents Digital Inclusion on March 1, 2019 by Anna Bon.

In our modern society the increasing digitization of so many aspects of life holds a risk of social exclusion of various groups. People who find difficulties in accessing online information and navigating the Web are heavily disadvantaged, when information from the government, taxes, health services, legal information etc. is increasingly reachable as digital service only. […]

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