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A new online tool from Oxford researchers uses mobile phone data to help tackle Covid-19. Data from mobile phones is being used to understand and predict the impact of the UK’s Covid-19 social distancing measures [...]

For the APLE Collective, digital exclusion means exclusion from voice, from an ability to participate in the everyday. It means being silenced. It means our knowledge is ignored, which exacerbates economic and social divides. As [...]

Accenture in Ireland has published a report exploring the scale of digital exclusion in Ireland which has found that at least 25% of the Irish population is excluded from an increasingly digital society because of [...]

Any health-care development that doesn't rapidly become available to all individuals has the unintended but inevitable consequence of fuelling health inequality. The response to COVID-19 is no exception. Although we have neither effective drugs or [...]

Scotland is facing a "children's rights emergency" in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the country's children's commissioner has warned. Bruce Adamson said he had "grave concerns" about the long-term impact of the virus lockdown [...]

When Covid-19 forced New Zealanders to live most of their lives online it exacerbated the effects of digital exclusion. Jean Teng spoke to the organisations that kept vulnerable communities connected during the pandemic. From job [...]