Today’s graph tells us about one of the great problems of today: digital inclusion, an issue that, during the arrival of Covid-19 and its confinement, was more evident.
Access to the internet has totally changed the course of our lives, both for better and for worse, being one of the most indispensable tools in all sectors of society.
Every year, exactly on September 8, International Literacy Day is commemorated, an important context to talk about the digital divide that, despite the great advancement of technology, still exists throughout the world.
This is precisely what today’s graph speaks of, of those countries where there is greater access to the internet and in which there is a significant lag in terms of digital inclusion.
The issue of inclusion is one of the most recurrent in recent years; Although some progress has been made in this area, the truth is that the development of more strategies is still needed to achieve a higher level of inclusion, especially in Internet access.
The arrival of the pandemic revealed the great inequality that exists in several countries regarding access to the internet or the digital sector. Due to this, millions of people, including children, adolescents and adults, were even forced to leave their schools or their jobs, due to the lack of technology.
The graph tells us that Sweden, the United States and Spain are the countries with the highest digital inclusion. Africa is the continent that registers the greatest lag in this area.
Data from Inclusive Internet Index 2021 makes it clear that, indeed, more efforts are needed to achieve parity in terms of internet access throughout the world.
There are few territories in which access to digital is wide (between 80 and 100 percent), while a large part of the planet is between 65 and 75 percent.