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The latest Annual Status of Education Report (ASER 2020 Wave 1), released online late last month, reaffirms a positive trend: households in India, both rich and poor, are pinning their hopes on education as a passport to upward mobility, even in the times of Covid-19. (Representational Image: AFP)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Prioritise the needs of most vulnerable kids

The pandemic has once again sledgehammered the fact that in digital India, everyone is not equal

5 Nov 2020 8:05 AM

A man reads a newspaper next to the Pacific Ocean on the coast of Lima, Peru. (AP)

Even before virus, communities in US feel loss of newspapers

Digital outlets also have limitations, since many people in poor and rural areas are unable to count on reliable...

27 Jun 2020 4:28 AM

Poor people in Chennai living on the banks of a canal in makeshift homes. (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - Milei Vencel)

Will someone help them out? Without smartphones, these poor students...

No one in the families of these seven students, and others like them, owns or can afford a smartphone.

13 Jun 2020 1:27 PM

The lockdown induced by the COVID-19 pandemic in March prompted schools and colleges to move to the virtual world for teaching and learning activities. However, many experts say the digital divide in the country may turn online classes into an operational nightmare as there are over 35 crore students in the country.

COVID turns back time to when only the privileged could get an...

When 56 per cent of children have no digital access, online education is exclusionary.

13 Jun 2020 11:14 AM

Looking for a signal to attend virtual classes is a common activity in areas with poor internet connectivity. The coronavirus has allowed people with money and technology to get on with their lives while the lives of the underprivileged have crumbled. (Photo | AFP)

Online classes only for the privileged, millions of others miss out on...

Many thousands of families do not have smartphones or computers for their children to attend online classes.

27 July 2020 10:50 AM

The billions of tax dollars avoided by multinational e-commerce, whilst feeding off the commercial data generated by their customers, often without explicit permission and without compensation and we have a fishbowl of growing global inequity. (Photo: AFP)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | The social media djinn: Excluding and unsocial

India women are 26 per cent less likely to access mobile Internet due to misogyny, harassment and revenge porn

8 May 2021 6:30 PM

Though the digital divide in India is intense, he said, the digital ecosystem in India is still weak, especially in the rural areas. Representational Image/DC

Digital ecosystem in India still weak: Expert

Stressing the need for urgent regulatory attention, Bhoi said that risks are hidden in a highly digitalised world

30 July 2021 4:37 AM

A student holds a mobile phone for another so that he can listen to instructions from a teacher as children wearing face masks as a precaution against the coronavirus attend online classes at a slum on the outskirts of Jammu. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | 5G-6G must cut digital divide

Reports have shown that the education of a large number of children suffered irreparably owing to their inability to...

19 May 2022 7:08 PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates during a meeting at his residence, in New Delhi. (PTI Photo)

No digital divide in my rule: Modi

Warns against unskilled people accessing AI

29 March 2024 6:47 PM