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Noam Tirosh

Senior Academic

The digital divide:

Worldwide challenges for communication across the life span in the digital age

S. Kretschmer, Teresa Correa, Ellie Rennie, Julian Thomas, Laura Robinson, Susana Salgado, Amit Schejter, Orit Ben-Harush, Noam Tirosh, Shula Mola, Jonathan Mendels, Malka Shacham, Ghalia Abu-Kaf, Qinghua Yang, Simeon J Yates
Certainly one of the most fundamental and significant worldwide challenges to communication across the life span in the digital age is the digital divide. For more than 20 years now since the recognition of the digital divide through social scientific research in 1994, large percentages of the populations of countries around the world have been disconnected from the most important technological advancement in communication in a generation and the myriad opportunities it facilitates, thus setting the life paths of those excluded on a course divergent from the trajectory of mainstream civilization.
Publication language English
Pages 123-148
Publication status Published - 2016

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Access to Document
10.3726/978-1-4539-1701-5