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"You’d be hard pressed to find any aspect of daily life that doesn’t require
some form of digital literacy. We need only to look back ten years to realise
how quickly things have changed.
In 2013, we were still predominantly buying paper bus tickets and using
Facebook on a desktop computer. Now, we order food by scanning codes and tap
our cards to make payments.
Digital inclusion (someone’s ability to keep up with technology) is an
important health and social equity issue, amplified by the rapid digital
developments that arose during the COVID pandemic.
Among those who are prone to digital exclusion, there is one group who, due to
a collision of several trends, may be hit the hardest: people leaving prison
and re-entering society at an older age, or after lengthy periods of
imprisonment. In a new study, we interviewed former prisoners about their
experiences with trying to adapt to ubiquitous technology after years of going
without."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
