The aim is for the project to serve to promote specific policies and actions in the fight against the digital divide: from training and improving services to communication, dissemination and accessibility of projects.

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Mobile phone image. 2017. Font: Pexels.

This July, the Table of Entities of the Third Social Sector of Catalonia and m4Social published the report 'Disconnected? The Catalan Digital Gap Index', a tool to understand and reduce digital inequalities from civil society and public administrations. Specifically, the document proposes a Catalan digital gap index, an indicator based on administrative data and transactional data from public and private actors. The aim is for the project to serve to promote specific policies and actions in the fight against the digital gap: from training and the improvement of services to communication, dissemination and accessibility. In this sense, the document is structured into two large blocks. The first block contains the indicators organized by thematic areas: infrastructure, facilities, uses, context variable and synthetic index. The second block presents the indicators in a territorial scorecard format, that is, it shows the overall situation of all the indicators in each region and can be compared with the whole of Catalonia. Therefore, the report 'Disconnected? The Catalan Digital Divide Index' confirms the need for a comprehensive approach to the phenomenon of the digital divide and puts on the table three major challenges: expanding the available data, incorporating a historical perspective and disseminating the lived experience and sharing the learning generated.

For more information, you can access the report 'Disconnected? The Catalan digital divide index' .