Suchergebnisse

Despite the headway the world has experienced over the last couple of years in terms of a substantial increase in digital access, there are still significant challenges to overcome in ensuring women are included in the transformation to a digital society, which in turn will enhance productivity and social development. Efforts to increase internet adoption access through broadband plans and legislative reforms have yielded improvements in use and adoption. However, there is still a stark and pervasive gender inequality in terms of access, ownership of digital devices, digital fluency as well as the capacity to make meaningful use of the access to technology. Even though affordability is a key source of exclusion, there are also significant socio-cultural norms that restrict access for women. This paper brings forward the argument that access alone is not enough, women need agency and capacity to leverage access. The authors thus highlight the need to make an assessment of the global gender gap and develop meaningful indicators that contribute to the design and implementation of effective policies that drive adoption. We need effective promotion of women's digital adoption not only from the government but also from the private sector and civil society in order to lead the digital adoption of best practices for women around the world.

Despite the headway the world has experienced over the last couple of years in terms of a substantial increase in digital access; there are still significant challenges to overcome in ensuring women are included in the transformation to a digital society, which in turn will enhance productivity and social development. Efforts to increase internet adoption access through broadband plans and legislative reforms have yielded improvements in use and adoption. However, there is still a stark and pervasive gender inequality in terms of access, ownership of digital devices, digital fluency as well as the capacity to make meaningful use of the access to technology. Even though affordability is a key source of exclusion, there are also significant socio-cultural norms that restrict access for women. This policy brief brings forward the argument that access alone is not enough, women need agency and capacity to leverage access. The authors thus highlight the need to make an assessment of the global gender gap and develop meaningful indicators that contribute to the design and implementation of effective policies that drive adoption. We need effective promotion of women's digital adoption not only from the government but also from the private sector and civil society in order to lead the digital adoption of best practices for women around the world.

The purpose of this article is to consider a specific aspect which has become an obvious source of social inequality in the digital era: computer games from a gender perspective. To this end, the existing literature is reviewed to show that despite the positive educational aspects of play, educational use of computer games is minimal. Details are also given of various research which shows the gender bias in different aspects related to multimedia games. The results of the research carried out by the authors (which received a subsidy from the Catalan Autonomous Government Catalan Women's Institute), dealing with the prevailing sexism in multimedia games, is also listed. Finally, the need for safeguarding the quality of multimedia games is highlighted, without forgetting new technologies' socialising importance in today's society.

En el contexto del desarrollo de la Sociedad de la Información y el Conocimiento (SIC) y de las crisis mundiales del capitalismo global, el trabajo aborda la problemática de la brecha digital como una expresión de las desigualdades del siglo XXI. Se presentan los antecedentes del auge que comenzó a cobrar ese proceso en los últimos años del siglo XX, así como las propuestas y proyectos formulados por los países latinoamericanos para construir esa nueva organización social. Se hace énfasis en el carácter estructural del problema de la brecha digital, en tanto "nueva desigualdad". Se señalan las transformaciones fundamentales de dicho concepto para luego, con el apoyo de algunas estadísticas, presentar en un contexto general algunos puntos de análisis sobre la brecha digital en América Latina y en México.

This article summarizes the basic characteristics of the digital gender gap in Spain, taking into account the differences between men and women when using the Internet. In order to achieve this goal, after tracking the general existing data, we will focus on young people, education and the actions developed by governments to reduce the digital gap. Thus, the aim of this article is to analyze changes and continuities in relation to the gender digital gap, considering future prospects and policy measures that have been applied. ; Este artículo resume las características básicas de la brecha digital de género en España, teniendo en cuenta los diferentes usos que hombres y mujeres realizan de Internet. Para ello, tras rastrear los datos generales existentes, centraremos la atención en los jóvenes, el ámbito educativo y las acciones emprendidas por los Poderes Públicos. De esta forma, el objetivo es analizar los cambios y permanencias en relación con la brecha digital de género, considerando las perspectivas de futuro y las medidas políticas que vienen aplicándose.

Este artículo resume las características básicas de la brecha digital de género en España, teniendo en cuenta los diferentes usos que hombres y mujeres realizan de Internet. Para ello, tras rastrear los datos generales existentes, centraremos la atención en los jóvenes, el ámbito educativo y las acciones emprendidas por los Poderes Públicos. De esta forma, el objetivo es analizar los cambios y permanencias en relación con la brecha digital de género, considerando las perspectivas de futuro y las medidas políticas que vienen aplicándose. ; This article summarizes the basic characteristics of the digital gender gap in Spain, taking into account the differences between men and women when using the Internet. In order to achieve this goal, after tracking the general existing data, we will focus on young people, education and the actions developed by governments to reduce the digital gap. Thus, the aim of this article is to analyze changes and continuities in relation to the gender digital gap, considering future prospects and policy measures that have been applied.

Abstract
This article details an attempt to bridge the gulf between information technology (IT) and social science approaches to cybersecurity using a simulation. Digital affairs are increasingly central to public policy, and yet the subject's incorporation within political science education has been hamstrung by an underlying disciplinary divide and lack of familiarity. Despite their differences, both IT and political science have strong traditions of utilizing active learning methods and simulation to achieve learning outcomes. Drawing on this shared pedagogy, we created an interdisciplinary simulation that leverages elements of digital forensics to provide students with a unique, active learning experience of responding to a national cybersecurity crisis. The simulation was fielded during an intermediate level class on cyber conflict and generated an overwhelmingly positive response. Students credited the exercise with helping them better understand the unique characteristics of cyberspace as a geopolitical domain and appreciated how the lack of an IT background was not a barrier to addressing cyber policy issues.