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Digital Inclusion: Landscape and Policy

Digital Inclusion: Landscape and Policy. Dr. Ellen Helsper E.J.Helsper@lse.ac.uk e-Skills for inclusion: From concepts to policy SMIT, Brussels, 10 Oct 2012. Image courtesy of FreeDigitalPhotos.net, image creator: Kookkai_nak. Digital Inclusion Concepts. Access: Mobility Ubiquity

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Digital Inclusion: Landscape and Policy

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  1. Digital Inclusion:Landscape and Policy Dr. Ellen Helsper E.J.Helsper@lse.ac.uk e-Skills for inclusion: From concepts to policy SMIT, Brussels, 10 Oct 2012 Image courtesy of FreeDigitalPhotos.net, image creator: Kookkai_nak

  2. Digital Inclusion Concepts • Access: • Mobility • Ubiquity • Privacy • Literacy • Technical/Operational • Social/Networking • Critical/Informational • Creative/production • Engagement • Civic • Educational • Social • Economic • Cultural • Motivations • Societal • Personal

  3. Population statistics (UK) User Non-User 90%? Source: ONS data (Opinion Omnibus surveys)

  4. Exclusion or choice Choice “Personality” Inevitability (social “pressure”) Acculturation/Socialisation Exclusion Material Wealth Forced choice?

  5. Changing landscape Source: Non-Users Oxford Internet Surveys. Helsper & Reisdorf (under review)

  6. Economic, Social, Cultural or Personal outcomes? (Helsper in press)

  7. Inequality in connectivity Source: Office of National Statistics (UK)

  8. Inequalities in skills Source: Oxford Internet Surveys (WIP-UK)

  9. Informal learning/literacy

  10. Inequality in literacy: European Children Source: EU Kids Online II. Base: All Internet Using Children

  11. Policy: Digital, Economic or Social Outcomes? Digital by default

  12. ‘Slippery policy slopes’ Evaluation of ‘success’ with the most vulnerable in society requires a normative debate • What is considered to be inclusion? The economic × the social paradigm • Is it up to the different groups to decide what inclusion means to them? Digital by default × Assisted Digital Policy Policy

  13. Current projects: • EU Kids Online: www.eukidsonline.net • World Internet project: www.worldinternetproject.net • The Evolving Diversity of New Media Usages & Practices (BT funded- tbc)

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