Bridging the digital divide: skills for the new age
OUTPUT TYPE: Policy briefs
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2017
TITLE AUTHOR(S): K.Chetty, U.Aneja, V.Mishra, N.Gcora, J.Josie
KEYWORDS: DIGITAL DIVIDE, SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 9698
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/10839
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/10839
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2017
TITLE AUTHOR(S): K.Chetty, U.Aneja, V.Mishra, N.Gcora, J.Josie
KEYWORDS: DIGITAL DIVIDE, SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 9698
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/10839
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/10839
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Abstract
The digital divide is a manifestation of exclusion, poverty and inequality and continues to be exacerbated due to the effects of unemployment, poorly functioning digital skilling programmes and socio-cultural norms in some economies, depriving women equal access to digital services. Digital skills provide the poor a catalyst to break out of the cycle of poverty and empower themselves. A three-pronged digital skills strategy is required for developing countries: (1) Identify the skills required for employment (2) develop a holistic digital skills upliftment strategy, and (3) address the social and cultural norms through which these skills and systems are mediated.-
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