Last Thursday, October 15, the Raval Labor Network , the Gothic Labor Network and the Old Town Labor Network , with the collaboration of associations, entities and groups, promoted a conference on digital gaps in Ciutat Vella. The meeting was intended to be an opportunity to learn about inspiring experiences, share challenges, discover tools and resources, contribute to the development of a shared framework, strengthen coordination between entities and services, and jointly visualize responses to guarantee people's digital rights. First, Mònica Acebo, head of the Digital Inclusion and Training Service of the Secretariat for Digital Policies of the Generalitat de Catalunya, gave the presentation 'What do we mean by digital gap?', where she reflected on three levels: access, use and exploitation. Acebo stated that there was an access gap, because not all connections allowed to do the same and explained that, for example, in Barcelonès, there is a connectivity of 99.9%, while in Alta Ribagorça it may be 20%. Acebo spoke about the usage gap, since being on the Internet did not mean being able to solve every digital need and highlighted how there were people who had great digital deficiencies and needed the support of external people to carry out online procedures. Acebo added that there was a gap in exploitation, because having technology did not mean having the same opportunities. Likewise, Acebo highlighted how artificial intelligence was redefining digital skills, warned of the dangerous biases of the tools and recalled that talking about digital rights was talking about human rights, because what happened on the screens was what happened in life.
Next, a table of good practices was organized around digital literacy, digital skills, digital employability, professional training and digital procedures with the participation of Pol Rodríguez from Càritas Barcelona, Ali Siman from Fundació Somos F5 and Jèssica Domínguez from the Espai d'Inclusió i Formació del Casc Antic. Finally, two participatory dynamics were organized. The first participatory dynamic addressed the need to build a shared framework on digital gaps. The second participatory dynamic identified challenges, opportunities and bottlenecks to facilitate digital training itineraries and imagine useful, effective and transformative responses that fully guarantee digital rights.