The Digital Divides or the third industrial revolution: concepts and figures
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The Digital Divides or the third industrial revolution: concepts and figures Ismael Peña López Faculty of Law and Political Science Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Povo di Trento, 25/05/2006
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It is usual to think about the digital divide as a very concrete aspect of the impact of ICTs, mainly concerning whether there is an existence of infrastructures (sometimes computers, sometimes computers connected to the Internet). It is usual to think about digital literacy as the ability of someone to switch on a computer and playing some cards game, sending an e-mail and, optimistically, run some word processor and type in a love letter. It is usual to think about ICTs as something that won’t make disappear the hunger in the world or heal the thousands of people suffering from countless diseases, specially in places where citizens live with less than one dollar a day. It is usual to think about the digital divide as something that does not affect me, as I live on the sunny side of the world, in a developed country that will last this way for centuries. With the aim to dismantle all these (almost) false assumptions, the seminar will try and give "correct" definitions for concepts such as Digital Divide, Digital Literacy, eReadiness or eAwareness and show examples on how ICTs can help underdeveloped and developing countries to reach higher quotas of welfare… and how so-called developed countries can exchange places with the lesser developed ones in case they do not pay attention to what is happening in a global world. More info, citation and download, here: http://ictlogy.net/bibciter/reports/projects.php?idp=287
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The Digital Divides or the third industrial revolution:
concepts and figuresIsmael Peña López
Faculty of Law and Political ScienceUniversitat Oberta de Catalunya
Povo di Trento, 25/05/2006
Questions to (try to) answer...
Food or Technology (ICTs)?
Digital Divide: a matter of infrastructures?
Digital Literacy: plug & play?
Should the rich be scared of the Digital Divide(s)?
First Part: General concepts
NEW Information and Communication Technologies
Old ones:
radio
phone
TV
printed press
New ones:
Internet (e-mail + WWW)
mobile phone
satellite
INFORMATION and COMMUNICATION TechnologIES
Information:
databases
knowledge management
Communication:
broadcasting
p2p
networking
Technologies
multiplatform
multichannel
Information Society? (1/2)
(back to the ) Production function
Labour (and land)
Labour and Capital
Labour, Capital and Knowledge/Technology/…
Information Society? (2/2)
Information as input, tool and output
Use information to get
more information
better (quality) information
Raw data DigitalizationTransformationEnrichment
Rich dataInformation?Knowledge?
THIRD industrial revolution?
Industrial revolution:
iron
steam engine
Second industrial revolution:
steel
internal-combustion engine
Digital revolution
information
computers
Second Part: Development
Development: General concepts
Humanitarian action/aid
Development and Capacity building
Cooperation for Development
ICT and Development
Efficiency (efficienza)
Efficacy (efficacia)
PRODUCTIVITY
ICT’s contribution to development
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COOPERATION for Development & ICTs
Why ICT is key for achieving the MDGs? (Shoji Nishimoto & Radhika Lal)
ICT is necessary for investment, livelihood support and entrepreneurship ICT facilitates cost-effective public andprivate services
and
ICT increase NGOs’ efficacy, efficiency… productivity
Third Part: Digital Divides
Digital Divide: concepts
Digital Divide: Simon Moores (1996)
e-Readiness
e-Awareness
Digital Divide or The Four types of the Digital Divide
Infrastructure
Capacitation (Digital Literacy)
Content and Services
Legal framework
Digital Literacy
Technological literacy
Informational literacy
Functional literacy
e-Awareness
State of the Digital Divide
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State of the Digital Divide
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Digital Divide and Development
leapfrogging
State of the Digital Divide
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Fourth Part: Digital Inclusion(Digital Divides II)
Digital Divide and Digital Inclusion (1/2)
Infrastructure: access (and quality) affordability
Capacitation: digital immigrants and literacy
Content and Services: local content relevant services
Legal framework: ICT sector regulation (market) Censorship
Digital Divide and Digital Inclusion (2/2)
• Infrastructure installation• Infrastructure maintenance• Infrastructure creation
• Technological literacy• Informational literacy
Digital Literacy
• Hardware• Software• Connectivity
TechnologicalInfrastructures
• Locally relevant content• Content creation, transmission & commercialization
• e-Comunication among individuals and communities
• Presence in the Net & virtual communities
• e-Services• e-Public Sector
Content, Community & Services
• TelCos Law• Infrastructures Policies• Foreign trade Policies• Intellectual property and patents• ICT Sector fostering
LegalFrame-work
• Infrastructures Policies• R+D+I Policies • Educative Policy
• Intellectual property and patents• Data protection• Identity in the Net• Information Society Law
• Content Policies• e-Communication Policies• Distance learning Policies• Internet Governance• Foreign trade Policies• Participative Democracy• ICT4D
Povo di Trento, May 25th, 2006. Università Degli Studi Trento
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