Report Looks at What Digital Inclusion Efforts Lack

A new report from the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation — The Digital Inclusion Outlook: What It Looks Like and Where It’s Lacking — argues that the main digital inclusion challenge is not deployment, but adoption.

Furthermore, the report findings detail that successful efforts to combat the digital divide tend to be flexible and individualized, adapting programs to meet local needs. To get more people online, digital inclusion efforts should address the barriers of low digital literacy and affordability.

The sources of barriers must be addressed to fill the gaps, and the report also underlines that these gaps primarily affect marginalized groups.