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Editor’s Introduction: Digital Inclusion, Vulnerability and Associated Complexities

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Vulnerable People and Digital Inclusion

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This edited collection, which is diverse in scope and context, offers an original examination of the role of digital inclusion in the welfare and social inclusion of vulnerable people.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See, for example, Mesch and Talmud’s (2011) and Lissitsa and Lev-On’s (2014) studies of digital inequalities between Jews and Arabs in the context of Israel.

  2. 2.

    See http://www.who.int/features/factfiles/ageing/ageing_facts/en.

  3. 3.

    https://minorityrights.org/.

  4. 4.

    https://www.ageinternational.org.uk/.

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Tsatsou, P. (2022). Editor’s Introduction: Digital Inclusion, Vulnerability and Associated Complexities. In: Tsatsou, P. (eds) Vulnerable People and Digital Inclusion. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94122-2_1

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