Digital (in)equality, digital inclusion, digital humanism: Summary of the web science workshop DigDivDighum-20

Anna Bon; Hans Akkermans

doi:10.1145/3394332.3402893

Digital (in)equality, digital inclusion, digital humanism: Summary of the web science workshop DigDivDighum-20

Anna Bon
, Hans Akkermans

Centre for International Cooperation

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Abstract

From its inception, the World Wide Web has been intended to be a force for social good. But there are many barriers and obstacles, a situation commonly characterized as the Digital Divide. Several billion people especially in the Global South do not have access to Internet/Web for reasons of lacking (affordable) infrastructure, poverty, low literacy, lack of digital skills, language, etc., and are thus digitally excluded. Also in the Global North, despite being technologically “advanced”, we see severe digital inequalities and power disparities, in part for the same reasons and in part due to the Web being exploited as a centralized surveillance and moneymaking machine, controlled by big parties such as states and big (tech) corporations, thus creating further inequalities and exclusion. This paper summarizes the main themes and insights from ongoing research presented and discussed at the WebSci’20 Workshop on Digital (In)Equality, Digital Inclusion, Digital Humanism.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	WebSci '20 Companion
Subtitle of host publication	Companion Publication of the 12th ACM Conference on Web Science
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	3-5
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450379946
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3394332.3402893
Publication status	Published - Jul 2020
Event	12th ACM Conference on Web Science, WebSci 2020 - Southampton, United Kingdom Duration: 6 Jul 2020 → 10 Jul 2020

Conference

Conference	12th ACM Conference on Web Science, WebSci 2020
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Southampton
Period	6/07/20 → 10/07/20

Funding

We are grateful to the PC members and reviewers of the Web-Sci’20 DigDivDigHum-20 Workshop: Francis Saa-Dittoh, University for Development Studies UDS, Tamale, Ghana; Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer, University of Malaysia in Sarawak UNIMAS, Malaysia; Johari Abdullah, University of Malaysia in Sarawak UNI-MAS, Malaysia; Mónica Pini, Universidad Nacional de San Martín UNSAM, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Adèle Botha, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research CSIR, Pretoria, South Africa; Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Köln, Germany; Stephane Boyera, SBC4D, Toulouse, France; Gossa Lô, Bolesian, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Nana Baah Gyan, Central University, Accra, Ghana; Marlien Herselman, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research CSIR, Pretoria, South Africa; Hannes Werthner, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria; Jaap Gordijn, TVE The Value

Funders
Adèle Botha
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research CSIR
Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Marlien Herselman
Universidad Nacional de San Martín
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

Keywords

AI for sustainable development
Collaborative ICT4D technosocial innovation
Digital Divide
Digital Humanism
Digital inclusion on the Web
Overcoming barriers for the underprivileged

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Bon, A & Akkermans, H 2020, Digital (in)equality, digital inclusion, digital humanism: Summary of the web science workshop DigDivDighum-20. in WebSci '20 Companion: Companion Publication of the 12th ACM Conference on Web Science. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 3-5, 12th ACM Conference on Web Science, WebSci 2020, Southampton, United Kingdom, 6/07/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3394332.3402893

Digital (in)equality, digital inclusion, digital humanism: Summary of the web science workshop DigDivDighum-20. / Bon, Anna; Akkermans, Hans.
WebSci '20 Companion: Companion Publication of the 12th ACM Conference on Web Science. Association for Computing Machinery, 2020. p. 3-5.

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