IMPORTANT: Best practices and answers will be published in the ASIDE project reports [ISBN], EPALE and in the project website. http://aside.inbie.pl/
Is there a relation between Digital inclusion and social inclusion?
There is not a single answer to the influence of mobile technology on social exclusion/exclusion.
How to make the digital revolution an opportunity for everybody and how to provide a bridge between technology and society?
Are there any proven “Digital Inclusion programs” available on the Internet?
Digital inclusion mean acces to information, knowledge, services, oportunities, and I'm sure there is a direct relationship betwen digital and social inclusion, but the first is not enough to guarantee the second.
I think it is clear that social inclusion today has to integrate as one dimension of analysis the question of digital inclusion, too.
Basically there are three fundamental elements in this question:
a) availability of ITC infrastructures (in our European countries there are only some rural areas with a lot of difficulties, but normally the urban areas all have sufficient ICT structures)
b) access to the ICT services (material part and costs of the access): here the question is if people living in poverty or at-risk-of-poverty have the money or the objects to get access to internet.
c) Knowledge and capacities: Have people the sufficient knowledge and capacity to use internet as a door to opportunities that improve their life situation?
1) Digital inclusion as a dimension of participation of the concept of social inclusion:
It could be part of the aspect of "participation" as a lot of public services more and more are based on digital information channels, processes and communications. For that, citizens need not only access to internet (material aspect), but also knowledge and capacities (digital literacy).
2) Digital inclusion as a dimension of the labour/work field
A second aspect is that information technologies offer a broader and easier access for people on information in a lot of issues: notices, job offers, travel facilities, training and formation opportunities online and free, access to libraries etc. etc.
A third aspect is that a lot of jobs requiere basic knowledge on information technologies, the use of digitalized informations, processes and machines. People without knowledge in this field and without access to the information or training have lesser work opportunities and are structurally excluded from a lot of jobs.
3) Digital inclusion as a dimension of education and formation
As our societies moved and still are moving very fast into the digital era, training and formation on these technologies and new competences must be guaranteed especially for excluded people. Problems can be here how to motivate people to assist on these formal trainings or how informal channels can be activated.
In the universities the proposals of open-learning programs are one pillar or some MOOCS:
https://project.eco-learning.eu/es/
I would be interested to hear from your experiences in the field :-), so the project is really a good opportunity...
Social inclusion is a need and a right that must be manifested in all factors of life. Digital inclusion is one more factor that must be considered and that undoubtedly has a lot of relevance today.
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