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From the Digital Divide to Digital Justice in the Global South: [Keynote Web Science Workshop DigDivDigHum-20]

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As we shift paradigms in the relationship between digital technologies and international development, many issues will need to be rethought. In this paper, I look at the changing nature of the relationship between digital and inequality in the global South; in particular tracing the re-scoping from concerns just about the digital divide and exclusion, to broader concerns about digital justice that also cover adverse incorporation into digitalised development systems across economic, political and social spheres.

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WebSci '20 Companion: Companion Publication of the 12th ACM Conference on Web Science
July 2020
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ISBN:9781450379946
DOI:10.1145/3394332
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  1. Digital development
  2. Digital divide
  3. Digital inequality
  4. Digital justice
  5. ICT4D 3.0

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