EAPN – European Anti-Poverty Network

Direct Link to Full 32-Page 2024 Report: eapn-643004_Report-06.08-5973.pdf

EAPN defines digital poverty as the inability to interact adequately with digital devices and spaces, caused by a lack of skills, resources (such as electricity, smartphones, laptops), or internet connection. Unfortunately, digitalisation, though aiming to facilitate access to services, has inadvertently created digitally induced poverty for those already at risk of poverty. It has added a new barrier to access essential information and services, social benefits, and employment opportunities, where individuals and households have to use additional resources and pay to access the digital space effectively. Digitalisation has further pushed individuals into poverty, widening the gap between the digitally literate and the digitally excluded. In this chapter, we will explore how digitalisation is depriving individuals of their right to public services and social protection.

Извор: WUNRN – 13.09.2024