Digital inequalities in the Global South
Cham:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2020), xvii, 372 pp., 20 illustr., index
ISBN 978-3-030-32706-4 (pdf); 978-3-030-32705-7 (print)
"This book discusses how digital inequalities today may lead to other types of inequalities in the Global South. Contributions to this collection move past discussing an access problem - a binary division between 'haves and have-nots' - to analyse complex inequalities in the internet use, benefits, and opportunities of people in the Global South region. Using specific case studies, this book underlines how communities in the Global South are now attempting to participate in the information age despite high costs, a lack of infrastructure, and more barriers to entry. Contributions discuss the recent changes in the Global South. These changes include greater technological availability, the spread of digital literacy programs and computer courses, and the overall growth in engagement of people from different backgrounds, ethnicities, and languages in digital environments." (Publisher)
Contents
1 Introduction / Massimo Ragnedda and Anna Gladkova, 1
2 Understanding Digital Inequalities in the Global South / Massimo Ragnedda and Anna Gladkova, 17
I. DIGITAL INEQUALITIES IN SOUTH ASIA
3 Impacts of the Digital Divide on the E-government Portals of Nepal / Bhanu Bhakta Acharya, 33
4 A Widening Digital Divide and Its Impacts on Existing Social Inequalities and Democracy in Pakistan / Sadia Jamil, 59
5 Widening the Wedge: Digital Inequalities and Social Media in India / Padma Rani, Manjushree G. Naik, and Binod C. Agrawal, 79
6 ICTs, Power Prejudice and Empowerment: Digital Exclusion of the Poor in Rural Bangladesh / Mohammad Sahid Ullah, 103
II. DIGITAL INEQUALITIES IN CENTRAL AND WESTERN ASIA
7 Weaponization of Access, Communication Inequalities as a Form of Control: Case of Israel/Palestine / Hanna M. Kreitem, 137
8 Digital Inequalities in CIS Countries: Updated Approach to the Analysis of Situation / Olga Smirnova, 159
9 A Comparison of High-Skill and Low-Skill Internet Users in Northeast Anatolia, Turkey / Duygu Özsoy and Glenn Muschert, 177
III. DIGITAL INEQUALITIES IN AFRICA
10 Digital Infrastructure Enabling Platforms for Health Information and Education in the Global South / Danica Radovanovicì, Georges Vivien Houngbonon, Erwan Le Quentrec, Ghislain Maurice Norbert Isabwe, and Josef Noll, 199
11 Moving Beyond the Rhetoric: Who Really Benefits from Investments in Digital Infrastructure in Low-Income and Low-Literacy Communities in Malawi? / Edister Samson Jamu, Tiwonge Davis Manda, and Gowokani Chijere Chirwa, 223
12 Digital Inequality and Language Diversity: An Ethiopic Case Study / Isabelle A. Zaugg, 247
13 The End of the Public Sphere: Social Media, Civic Virtue, and the Democratic Divide / Last Moyo, 269
IV. DIGITAL INEQUALITIES IN SOUTH AMERICA
14 The Digital Divide: Observations from the South About a Failed Dialog with the North / Cristian Berrío-Zapata, 289
15 Social Inequality, Technological Inequality and Educational Heterogeneity in the Light of the Conectar Igualdad OLPC Programme (Salta, Argentina, 2015-2017) / Alejandra García Vargas, Laura Golovanevsky, and María Rosa Chachagua, 319
16 Afro-Creole Nationalism and the Maintenance of the Digital Divide: The Case of Jamaica / Nova Gordon-Bell, 347
Afterword: Knowledge-Whose Knowledge? / Bruce Mutsvairo, 363
2 Understanding Digital Inequalities in the Global South / Massimo Ragnedda and Anna Gladkova, 17
I. DIGITAL INEQUALITIES IN SOUTH ASIA
3 Impacts of the Digital Divide on the E-government Portals of Nepal / Bhanu Bhakta Acharya, 33
4 A Widening Digital Divide and Its Impacts on Existing Social Inequalities and Democracy in Pakistan / Sadia Jamil, 59
5 Widening the Wedge: Digital Inequalities and Social Media in India / Padma Rani, Manjushree G. Naik, and Binod C. Agrawal, 79
6 ICTs, Power Prejudice and Empowerment: Digital Exclusion of the Poor in Rural Bangladesh / Mohammad Sahid Ullah, 103
II. DIGITAL INEQUALITIES IN CENTRAL AND WESTERN ASIA
7 Weaponization of Access, Communication Inequalities as a Form of Control: Case of Israel/Palestine / Hanna M. Kreitem, 137
8 Digital Inequalities in CIS Countries: Updated Approach to the Analysis of Situation / Olga Smirnova, 159
9 A Comparison of High-Skill and Low-Skill Internet Users in Northeast Anatolia, Turkey / Duygu Özsoy and Glenn Muschert, 177
III. DIGITAL INEQUALITIES IN AFRICA
10 Digital Infrastructure Enabling Platforms for Health Information and Education in the Global South / Danica Radovanovicì, Georges Vivien Houngbonon, Erwan Le Quentrec, Ghislain Maurice Norbert Isabwe, and Josef Noll, 199
11 Moving Beyond the Rhetoric: Who Really Benefits from Investments in Digital Infrastructure in Low-Income and Low-Literacy Communities in Malawi? / Edister Samson Jamu, Tiwonge Davis Manda, and Gowokani Chijere Chirwa, 223
12 Digital Inequality and Language Diversity: An Ethiopic Case Study / Isabelle A. Zaugg, 247
13 The End of the Public Sphere: Social Media, Civic Virtue, and the Democratic Divide / Last Moyo, 269
IV. DIGITAL INEQUALITIES IN SOUTH AMERICA
14 The Digital Divide: Observations from the South About a Failed Dialog with the North / Cristian Berrío-Zapata, 289
15 Social Inequality, Technological Inequality and Educational Heterogeneity in the Light of the Conectar Igualdad OLPC Programme (Salta, Argentina, 2015-2017) / Alejandra García Vargas, Laura Golovanevsky, and María Rosa Chachagua, 319
16 Afro-Creole Nationalism and the Maintenance of the Digital Divide: The Case of Jamaica / Nova Gordon-Bell, 347
Afterword: Knowledge-Whose Knowledge? / Bruce Mutsvairo, 363
