The Challenge of Digital Equity: An Age-Inclusive Approach

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This document discusses digital skills and equity for older adults. It notes that digital literacy is essential for everyday tasks like shopping, banking and communicating with family and friends. The document explores statistics on internet and digital skills usage among older age groups in Ireland and Denmark in 2018. It addresses challenges older adults face in developing digital skills and suggests peer-to-peer learning and making training relevant as ways to help address the issue. The overall message is that digital inclusion is important for quality of life and participation in society, especially as populations age.

Education

• Digital Natives
• Digital Immigrants
• Digital Visitors
• Digital Residents
• Digital Dinosaurs
Non-liners
On-liners

What’s at stake?
ABILITY TO LIVE, LEARN AND THRIVE
• Self-worth
• Staying healthy
• Going shopping
• Staying up-to-date
• Finding where to go
• Booking your travel
• Enjoying entertainment
• Wellbeing
• Saving time
• Saving money
• Paying your bills
• Manging your banking
• Meeting with family & friends
• Everyday living & learning

Exploring the numbers
How big is the issue?

Question 1…
If this number is the answer,
what is the question?

Answer…
Percentage of people aged 65-74 living in Ireland
who had used the Internet in the past 12 months
2018

Percentage of people aged 65-74 living in Ireland
who had used the Internet in the past 12 months

If this number is the answer,
what is the question?
Question 2…

Answer…
Percentage of people aged 65-74 living in the Denmark
who have basic or above basic digital skills
2018

Percentage of people aged 65-74 living in the Denmark
who have basic or above basic digital skills

If this number is the answer,
what is the question?
Question…

Answer…
Percentage of people over 75 living in
Ireland who use the Internet
2018

Does it impact someone you know?
• Fingers
• Hearables
• Switched off
• Paying bills
• Playing golf

What digital skills do you need?
World Economic Forum
(2016)

“As the chapters that follow
attest, the most immediately
obvious facts about accounts
of digital literacy are that
there are many of them and
that there are significantly
different kinds of concepts
on offer”
(Lankshear & Knobel, 2008, p.2).

• Fun
• Social
• Meaningful
• Peer-to-peer
• Point of need

What else needs to be done?
What can you do to support digital equity?
By the year 2031, the number of people over the age of 65 in Ireland will
have been increased by more than 86% since 2016!

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