Academic Articles & Research Papers

Promoting Inclusion and Mitigating Digital Divide Impacts in International Development Research Teams: The PIRL Project.

Digital Voice: Technology as a Tool of Oppression and Liberation in Christina Dalcher’s Vox

Digital feminism combines feminism and digital tools; the core purpose of digital feminism is to demonstrate how women utilize the internet as a platform to share issues and promote empowerment. This study focuses particularly on the two ma...

Exploring Practical Paths for the "Last Mile" of Public Digital Cultural Services: An Investigation Based on the Construction of the National Public Culture Cloud Platform

[Purpose/Significance] The delivery of public cultural services at the grassroots level is a key issue in developing China's modern public cultural service system. Although digital technology has created new possibilities for wider access t...

The Future of Work: Digitalisation of Sub-Saharan Africa Labour Markets

Digital transformation is reshaping global operations by integrating technology into business, fundamentally changing how value is delivered. In Sub-Saharan Africa, this shift is altering work processes and job content, impacting the demand...

Gender, power, and digital health inequities: a narrative review of barriers to digital health access among women in Lesotho

Digital health technologies are increasingly recognised as tools to enhance healthcare accessibility in resource-constrained settings. However, evidence suggests that not every section of society has benefitted equally. Women in developing ...

Mobile health technology adoption across generations: Narrowing the digital divide

Abstract Mobile health (m‐health) technologies offer many benefits to individuals, organizations, and health professionals alike. Indeed, the utilization of m‐health by older adults can foster the development of proactive patients, while al...

Human Rights and Digital Health Technologies.

Digital health technologies have been heralded as a critical solution to challenges and gaps in the delivery of quality health care and essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Yet they also present threats to privacy and c...

Digital health technology in clinical trials

Digital health technologies (DHTs) have brought several significant improvements to clinical trials, enabling real-world data collection outside of the traditional clinical context and more patient-centered approaches. DHTs, such as wearabl...

The Role of iSchools in Medical Informatics

Similar to iSchools, healthcare is an interdisciplinary field that encompasses heterogeneous environments (e.g., hospitals, clinics, home) and perspectives. However, medical informatics research focuses mainly on technical solutions to narr...

Role of the Internet in Solving the Last Mile Problem in Medicine

Internet-augmented medicine has a strong role to play in ensuring that all populations benefit equally from discoveries in the medical sciences. Yet, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention collected from 1999 to 2014 sugge...

International Relations: The Key Concepts

Featuring over twenty new entries, International Relations: The Key Concepts, now in its second edition, is the essential guide for anyone interested in international affairs. Comprehensive and up-to-date, it introduces the most important t...

Digital Connectivity project for Central Asia as a mechanism of confrontation between the EU and China

The article focuses on analyzing the European Union’s (EU) Digital Connectivity project for Central Asia as a mechanism of the “Global Gateway” initiative to counterbalance the influence of China and other geopolitical actors in the region....

From Promise to Peril: generative artificial intelligence's potential to deepen educational inequalities in geographically diverse contexts

PurposeThis study critically examines how van Dijk's Digital Divide Theory applies to generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) access in regional, remote and rural (RRR) educational contexts. It interrogates whether a framework designed f...