Wir feiern #Technologie als Heilsbringer 🚀

Doch Millionen werden unsichtbar 👥.
Wenn #Algorithmen über Leben entscheiden & Zugang Macht bedeutet.

Wer schützt die, die offline bleiben? ⚖️

🔗 https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/digital-aliens-die-neue-ungleichheit/digital-aliens-die-neue-ungleichheit/arte/Y3JpZDovL2FydGUudHYvcHVibGljYXRpb24vMTIwNDEyLTAwMC1B

#DigitalAliens #DigitalDivide #Ethik #bitsundbaeume 🌱

Digital Aliens - Die neue Ungleichheit - hier anschauen

Die Digitalisierung gilt als Motor des Fortschritts. Doch während sich unsere Welt rasant vernetzt und unser Alltag zunehmend automatisiert, wächst eine neue Form der Ungleichheit. 'Digital Aliens – Die neue Ungleichheit' zeigt, wie digitale Systeme Gesellschaften neu ordnen – und warum immer mehr Menschen dabei drohen, abgehängt und unsichtbar zu werden. Der Dokumentarfilm erzählt von einer Welt, in der Technologie als Heilsbringer gefeiert wird, Teilhabe jedoch immer stärker an Zugang, Kompetenzen und algorithmischen Entscheidungen geknüpft ist. Millionen Menschen scheitern an digitalen Schnittstellen, während automatisierte Prozesse Verwaltungen, Arbeitsmärkte und Sozialsysteme prägen – oft ohne Transparenz, ohne Widerspruchsmöglichkeiten, ohne menschliches Gegenüber. Algorithmen bewerten, sortieren aus und entscheiden. Sie reproduzieren bestehende Diskriminierungen, verstärken sie oder schaffen neue. Zwischen politischer Regulierung und technologischer Vision stellt der Dokumentarfilm die Frage nach Verantwortung. Wer trägt sie – und wer kann eingreifen? Expertinnen wie die Rechtswissenschaftlerin Sandra Wachter, die KI-Forscherin Abeba Birhane oder die Politologin Geraldine de Bastion analysieren die Machtverhältnisse der digitalisierten Welt. In Brüssel geht es um die Grenzen politischer Steuerung, im Silicon Valley gibt der Unternehmer Sebastian Thrun Einblick in neue Tech-Visionen. In Frankreich rekonstruiert der Film einen Algorithmus-Skandal in der Sozialbehörde, in Deutschland, Irland und Estland sucht er nach Gegenmodellen: Bildung, Solidarität und digitaler Selbstermächtigung.

"Since late February 2026, a 40-day military confrontation between Iran, the United States, and Israel has unfolded across the region, following an initial wave of airstrikes that set in motion a cycle of retaliation and broader regional spillovers. The focus, unsurprisingly, has been on security and geopolitics. But the conflict also reshaped something less visible: the infrastructures that sustain connectivity.

At approximately midday on 28 February, global internet access in Iran was effectively cut off for most users. Not entirely, and not for all. What followed was not simply a condition of disconnection, but a reorganisation of the network itself into a layered system in which connectivity was differentially mediated through infrastructural constraints, economic mechanisms, and institutional gatekeeping.

This analysis is based on ten in-depth interviews with business owners, technical operators, and everyday internet users in Iran, conducted during and immediately after the recent conflict. These interviews are complemented by participant observation of connectivity practices, pricing dynamics, and user behavior under conditions of disruption. While not exhaustive, the findings provide a grounded view of how internet governance operates in practice under crisis conditions."

https://policyreview.info/articles/news/how-war-restructured-irans-internet/2094

#Iran #Internet #Censorship #DigitalDivide

The price of access: How war restructured Iran’s internet into a tiered and monetised system

The recent conflict in Iran reveals how internet governance under crisis conditions may be shifting from outright shutdowns toward layered systems of differentiated and monetised access.

@HankB @sutaio My cell phone has failed several time(battery 2x,screen 3x,charging connector 1x),plus it regularly fails by discharging quickly,the battery is weak. How do I export my Obsidian notes from my phone to some other place after the phone fails completely so that it cannot be booted up and used at all, not even for entering the data transfer command?

My paper notebooks have suffered:
0 battery
0 screen
0 charging connector failures

The Khmer lady running snack stall business and rental house used a basket full of paper notebooks for her accounting. It worked. She was uneducated, wrote worse Khmer ortography that me,a foreigner.Never seen her experience a software upgrade failure, dependency hell or an error on paper notebooks.Issued valid handwritten receipts on backs of used calendar pages.

#resilience #robustness #simplicity #complexity #bureaucracy #paper #analog #digital #writing #biro #ballpointpen #handwriting #opticalstorage #digitaldivide #righttoanalog

Investing in digitalization of public services (e.g. #NextGenEu) is important, but there is evidence that digital inequalities change rather than disappear #digitaldivide #digitalinequalities #e-governement direct.mit.edu/euso/article...

Digital citizens or digital ou...
Digital citizens or digital outcasts? On the evolving relation between social stratification and utilization of e-administration

Abstract. This study examines how digital inequalities evolve over time by analysing the diffusion of e-administration services in Spain between 2017 and 2023. Bridging technological innovation diffusion frameworks and social stratification approaches, we conceptualise the digital divide as a dynamic process in which the social bases of exclusion shift rather than simply diminish. Using nationally representative data from the ICT Household Survey, we apply pooled Heckman selection models with year interactions, Kitagawa-Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, and distributional inequality measures to trace changes in digital engagement across education, income, and activity status. Rather than a monotonic decline, results reveal a cycle: inequality in predicted e-administration engagement widened during the pre-COVID period before compressing sharply from 2021 onward, in correspondence with pandemic-driven forced digitalisation and concurrent public investment in digital infrastructure. This convergence is driven by structural effects rather than compositional change and is particularly pronounced in the collapse of educational and income gradients. Overall, our findings suggest that investment in digital public infrastructure can reduce socially stratified patterns of e-administration usage. Yet equalisation remains incomplete: rather than eliminating digital inequalities, diffusion appears to reconfigure them, shifting the axis of exclusion from between-group categorical divides to within-group heterogeneity concentrated at the very bottom of the distribution.

MIT Press
Thaicom s’allie à Amazon Leo pour connecter la Thaïlande depuis l’orbite basse : internet partout… ou nouvelle dépendance spatiale ? www.teamfrance-export.fr/infos-sector... #Space #Science #Innovation #AerospaceEngineering #AmazonLeo #LEO #SatelliteInternet #DigitalDivide

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Thaicom s'allie à Amazon Leo pour révolutionner l'accès internet…

Thaicom, opérateur satellite leader en Asie, devient distributeur exclusif d'Amazon Leo en Thaïlande, déployant une connectivité broadband ultra-rapide en…

Team France Export
Thaicom s'allie à Amazon Leo pour révolutionner l'accès internet…

Thaicom, opérateur satellite leader en Asie, devient distributeur exclusif d'Amazon Leo en Thaïlande, déployant une connectivité broadband ultra-rapide en…

Team France Export

This is interesting. While some are fighting to buy the latest version of phones, this is happening at UC Berkley.

Neither is wrong. Both have different adjacent possibles.

Whole some are trying to minimize the digital divide others are trying to maximize it.

Circumstance is a peculiar thing.

https://www.kqed.org/news/12081336/these-uc-berkeley-students-are-leading-the-fight-against-phones

#tech #digitaldivide

These UC Berkeley Students Are Leading the Fight Against Phones

They’re deleting their social media accounts and reducing their screen time. And they want you to join them.

KQED
Cheaper than satellites and more versatile than ground towers, Red Balloon Aerospace's Super Pressure Balloon promises to deliver internet, disaster alerts, and surveillance to India's remote regions. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/features/specials/tower-in-the-sky-over-vijayawada-near-space-tech-indias-urban-rural-digital-gap-lvft9nex?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #DigitalDivide #Connectivity #InformationTechnology #Vijayawada
AI is already here—but not evenly distributed. The digital divide is widening into an #AI divide. How do we build a bridge of #AILiteracy and fluency so “AI immigrants” can become “AI natives”? #DigitalDivide #FutureOfWork #Strategy
https://www.datentreiber.com/blog/building-bridges/

How #technology is failing the #elderly: The simple #solutions no one is implementing
Tech companies design for #youth, not for aging bodies. Loneliness is amplified by digital #isolation.
#Aging #Seniors #DigitalInclusion #TechForGood #ElderlyCare #AccessibilityMatters #DigitalDivide #HumanCenteredDesign #AgeingPopulation

Technology is leaving seniors behind
https://juskosave.blogspot.com/2026/04/how-technology-is-failing-elderly.html