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Abstract
One objective of public policy is to solve social problems and often it is through policy that digital inclusion efforts enter our information society. Digital technologies can help accelerate progress in fighting poverty, hunger and ill-health, in improving educational outcomes and in reducing gender and other inequalities. Digital inclusion is a means to empower underserved and marginalized populations. Policy related to digital inclusion often starts with building infrastructure and providing affordable access to information and communication technologies such as through phone connections, broadband, computers in classrooms or a computer (i.e., smartphone) in every pocket. But how can we know whether the policies we enact are addressing the many factors that create digital inequities? This chapter provides a matrix for reviewing information policy using an information worlds framework and provides examples using South Korean information policy to illustrate.
Publication Info
Published in Research Handbook on Information Policy, ed. Alistair S. Duff, 2021, pages 359-369.
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© Alistair S. Duff 2021
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APA Citation
Thompson, K. M. (2021). Planning and evaluating policy to address information inequalities: An information worlds matrix approach. In A. Duff (Ed.), Research handbook on information policy (pp. 359-369). Edward Elgar Publishing.