Digital cities: a local approach to bridge the digital divide : digital initiatives to tackle info-exclusion
By: BILHIM, João
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Contributor(s): NEVES, Bárbara.
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BookSeries: CAPP. Working Paper ; 3.Publisher: Lisboa : CAPP, 2005Description: 24 p.Subject(s): Cidade Digital | Internet | Gestão Tecnológica | Gestão TIAbstract: This paper explores the new forms of cities, the digital ones that are emerging in cyberspace. In the framework of an increased advance and influence of the Internet, ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies), and CMC (Computer Mediated Communication) and facing the challenges of contemporary cities (fragmentation, loss of identidy, crisi in the public sphere, etc) and the potentialities of cyberspace, cities felt the need to be complemented by an online platform. This model that consists of an information and communication network that connects citizens, public and private sectors to a certain site, presupposes the existence of technologically literate people, which implies the training of the info-excluded. In fact, Information Society has to face imperative problems of exclusion in order to rethink societal inequality and equality, now carried to a virtual space. The digital divide is undoubtedly growing.Abstract: Nevertheless, digital cities also define programs to bridge the digital divede, as well as to decrease info-exclusion. In this paper, we address the local initiatives of digital cities, demonstrating one of the formats that foresee the union between technology and the public, providing reflection on their role and actions to diminish info-exclusion.
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This paper explores the new forms of cities, the digital ones that are emerging in cyberspace. In the framework of an increased advance and influence of the Internet, ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies), and CMC (Computer Mediated Communication) and facing the challenges of contemporary cities (fragmentation, loss of identidy, crisi in the public sphere, etc) and the potentialities of cyberspace, cities felt the need to be complemented by an online platform. This model that consists of an information and communication network that connects citizens, public and private sectors to a certain site, presupposes the existence of technologically literate people, which implies the training of the info-excluded. In fact, Information Society has to face imperative problems of exclusion in order to rethink societal inequality and equality, now carried to a virtual space. The digital divide is undoubtedly growing.
Nevertheless, digital cities also define programs to bridge the digital divede, as well as to decrease info-exclusion. In this paper, we address the local initiatives of digital cities, demonstrating one of the formats that foresee the union between technology and the public, providing reflection on their role and actions to diminish info-exclusion.
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