News and Research articles on Digital inclusion

What do digital inclusion and data literacy mean today?

Elinor Carmi, University of Liverpool
Simeon J. Yates, University of Liverpool
PUBLISHED ON: 27 May 2020 DOI: 10.14763/2020.2.1474

This special issue is examining the different layers of digital inclusion and data literacy by drawing on research, policy, and practice developments around literacies in various regions and contexts. It highlights the politics around them so as to propose policies that are needed to include more people in datafied societies, and what types of literacies they should learn.

Zero rating has emerged as one of the most contentious communications policy debates of the last decade. The offer of ‘free’ access to select applications compromises network neutrality, at the same time as it can present advantages to users with limited economic resources. How can we attempt to reconcile these conflicting dimensions of zero rating?