The Digital Divide in Asia-Pacific: A Persistent Challenge The Asia-Pacific digital landscape features metropolises like Tokyo and Singapore with world-leading connectivity alongside vast unconnected rural territories, affecting half of the region’s 4.3 billion people. This disparity represents the greatest obstacle to inclusive development across APAC. Sri Lanka exemplifies the rural-urban divide with 80.6% rural population […]
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NetMission’s Submission for OHCHR Call for Input for Thematic Report on Artificial Intelligence and Racial Discrimination
The increasing pervasiveness of Artificial Intelligence (AI) necessitates a critical examination of its potential impact on racial bias. Unethical development and deployment of AI could exacerbate existing racial inequities. NetMission.Asia as a youth initiative in Asia Pacific is committed to promoting digital literacy, inclusion, and responsible technology use, and recognizes this challenge as integral to […]
The Gender-Based Digital Divide – Kalpesh Chaudhari
Since the spread of the Internet is worldwide, it is to be promised that it remains as common place for everyone. Everyone in the sense it will be inclusive of all races, cultures, and even all genders. According to an article published at the ITU titled “Bridging the Gender Divide”[1] it is propounded that around 2.7 […]