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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‘Heeramandi’ review: Lahore Luxe tawaif saga runs on empty
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Mumbai school principal told to resign after being targeted by Hindutva website
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‘Naach Ga Ghuma’ review: Soft landings in saga of a woman and her missing maid
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Shifting goalposts: AIFF chief Kalyan Chaubey needs to come clean on the ISL not having relegation
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Sugar in Nestlé baby food sold in African countries shows how corporations influence public policy
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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: Meet Sparkles, the new avatar of Boston Dynamics’ robot dog with a special costume
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Watch: Diljit Dosanjh invites young fan on stage, dances with him during his sold-out Vancouver show
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Watch: School authorities turn classroom into swimming pool to encourage attendance during heatwave
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Watch: Woman recreates pet parrot’s choreography
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Watch: Neighbours rescue infant from second floor sunshade after she fell from fourth floor balcony
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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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‘Naach Ga Ghuma’ review: Soft landings in saga of a woman and her missing maid
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‘Heeramandi’ review: Lahore Luxe tawaif saga runs on empty
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‘The Fall Guy’ review: Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt sparkle in entertaining action comedy
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‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ trailer: Barry Jenkins directs prequel to 2019 photorealistic animated film
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Start the week with a film: A divorce from hell in ‘The War of the Roses’
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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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Badminton, Thomas and Uber Cup 2024: Indian women exit in quarter-final after loss to Japan
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Squash, Saurav Ghosal interview: ‘People enjoyed watching me, this was the legacy I wanted to leave’
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Boxing, Asian U22 & Youth C’ships: Aryan, Yashwardhan, Priyanshu among Indians in semi-finals
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Shifting goalposts: AIFF chief Kalyan Chaubey needs to come clean on the ISL not having relegation
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IPL 2024: Harpreet Brar, Rahul Chahar bowl Punjab Kings to crucial win over Chennai Super Kings