Digital Divide
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Digital divide: Mobile ownership 30% higher among men than women in India, shows Oxfam report
The report showed that besides gender, there exists stark disparity in access to digital services on the lines of caste, financial status and education.
Scroll Staff
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‘No rights as a citizen’: Pakistan’s digital ID has excluded millions from social welfare schemes
Refugees, migrants, women, transgender people and nomadic communities are among those without the vital computerised national identity card.
Waqar Mustafa, Thomson Reuters Foundation News
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Indian education can’t go online – only 8% of homes with young members have computer with net link
The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed how rooted structural imbalances are between rural and urban, male and female, rich and poor, even in the digital world.
Protiva Kundu
Trending
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Carnatic music: Violinist L Subramaniam’s new book looks at the 18th-century masters
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View from the Margins: A Dalit Christian explains why he will be voting for change
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EC rejects claims that EVMs gave extra votes to BJP in Kerala mock polls, SC reserves verdict
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Husna Bai: The tawaif who made Hindustani music a respectable profession for women artists
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Is apple cider vinegar as good for health as it sounds?
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This Rajasthan village wants to catch up with India’s digital revolution – but lacks the wherewithal
Nobody has ever used a computer in Rawatpura.
Shubham Sharma
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Can the world’s megacities survive the digital age?
Research shows that technology disrupts economies of scale, turning megacities' huge populations from strength to liability.
Vincent Mack, The Conversation & Christopher H. Lim, The Conversation
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In a Jharkhand village, Adivasis have received bank cards – but not the education to read them
The Paharia Adivasi community says they are cheated in their banking transactions and don't know what to do with the debit cards.
Anumeha Yadav
Video
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Watch: Unbelievable scenes of flooding in Dubai airport, streets, and malls after heavy rain in UAE
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Indian elections: How secure is the EVM-VVPAT process?
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Watch: Footballers of Indian clubs walk out on the pitch with dogs to get them adopted
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Watch: Dogs wag their tails to ‘conduct’ classical music orchestra
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Watch: Glimpses of Indian singer Sid Sriram’s debut performance at Coachella 2024
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The DigiLocker was supposed to cut down paperwork but less than 0.1% of Indians are using it
The official data shows that the platform has not enthused as many users as the government expected.
Mayank Jain
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Digital inequality warning sounded for urban India
A new study buttresses the claim that India’s Internet use is low.
Devanik Saha, IndiaSpend.com
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Connecting everyone to the internet won’t solve the world’s development problems
To benefit from the digital revolution, the world needs more than just connectivity.
Anna Childs, The Conversation
The Reel
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Watch: ‘The Broken News’ returns for a second season
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‘Dil Dosti Dilemma’ trailer: A teenager bonds with her grandparents during a summer vacation
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‘Silence 2: The Night Owl Bar Shootout’ review: A bland cop meets a dull case
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‘Juna Furniture’ trailer: Mahesh Manjrekar directs and stars in film about ageing
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Tokyo Sonata’, the unequal music of an emotionally distant family
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In the US, computer science is (unfortunately) a privilege
Students from lower income backgrounds are less likely to have computers at home or any type of computer science instruction. Which explain why Silicon Valley is so homogenous.
Alice Truong, Qz.com
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An introduction to the booming world of Latin American digital arts
Latin America might have found itself on the dark side of the "digital divide" over the last 20 years or so, but this hasn’t impeded the development of digital arts there.
Thea Pitman, The Conversation
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Facebook opens up Internet.org to developers, responding to net neutrality advocates
Chris Daniels, Facebook's VP for Internet.org, says Facebook isn't picking the web winners through the initiative.
Shivam Vij
The Field
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IPL 2024: Suryakumar, bowlers help Mumbai Indians seal thriller against Punjab Kings
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Cricket: Meg Lanning opens up about struggle with food and exercise that led to her early retirement
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Paris Olympics 2024: Long jumper Sreeshankar Murali ruled out of Games with knee injury
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Badminton: Kento Momota, former world champion, announces international retirement
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Chess, Candidates 2024: Gukesh Dommaraju drops to second after draw against Fabiano Caruana