Diverse rural Indigenous communities in Canada, like those in many regions of the world, are facing a variety of challenges and opportunities associated with the development, deployment, and adoption of rapidly emerging digital technologies. These include supply-side challenges (such as...

The concept of a ubiquitous city, or uCity, is gaining attention worldwide. In a uCity, anyone is enabled by information and communication technologies (ICT) to do anything, anywhere, at any time. The uCity concept has spread more quickly than its implementation, which relies on a complex set of...

The concept of a ubiquitous city, or uCity, is gaining attention worldwide. In a uCity, anyone is enabled by information and communication technologies (ICT) to do anything, anywhere, at any time. The uCity concept has spread more quickly than its implementation, which relies on a complex set of...

In the present paper, I am trying to emphasize that telecentres � despite the difficulties they are facing due to last years� technological changes � could still be helpful in promoting the principles of the Lisbon Agenda. They could provide access to ICT in rural regions with...

Perhaps due to the growing array of digital inclusion programs that are increasingly offered by community organizations, states are examining ways to help their residents search – and determine their eligibility – for programs within their communities. To this end, several states are...

The development of variable renewable energy (VRE) and their massive installation are some of the challenges that the economies of a large part of the world will have to face in the coming years to help ensure a reasonable sustainability of the planet. On the other hand, the advances that have...

Feminist foreign policy (FFP) provides a policy framework for government action and for processes and structures within ministries. The introduction of such a framework is linked to a change in policy that is intended to help reduce discriminatory asymmetric relations of power. FFP is a new...

This report systematically outlines the state of play in digital policy and Berlin’s current policy approach. It provides 48 recommendations for strengthening Germany’s efforts to build a confident, high-performing European digital economy embedded in an open, democratic, and rules-based...

This research paper examines an underexplored facet of climate change mitigation - digital climate policies. Despite empirical evidence demonstrating the potential of broadband networks to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGe), these networks are conspicuously absent from the...