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The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of digital technologies in some areas, but this rapid shift may be leaving some vulnerable groups behind. Hariz Baharudin and Yuen Sin speak to experts and people from four groups in the 'digital extremities' to examine the issue of a widening digital divide.
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Leaving vulnerable groups behind in this digital divide could worsen current social inequalities.
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Yuen Sin, Hariz Baharudin
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While the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated digitalisation in some sectors, it has also raised concerns that vulnerable segments of society are being left behind in a so-called digital divide.
In the absence of a clear measure of the digital divide here, there are some official figures that suggest there could be some who fall through the cracks.
