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Gender, Internet Use, and Covid-19 in the Global South: Multiple Causalities and Policy Options
by Jeffrey James
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031155750 | 70 Pages | PDF (True) | 1 MB

This book analyzes the use of the mobile Internet against the background of gender bias and Covid-19, currently two of the most important and pressing problems of the Global South. The book argues that the degree of benefits from this new technology depends heavily on the way it is actually used and that most new technologies are developed for the conditions prevailing in rich countries, where they tend to be quite easily adopted and used. In the Global South, by contrast, a paucity of digital skills and other factors make the potentially valuable benefits from the Internet much more difficult to derive.