Case study presentations and a round-table discussion exploring the challenges, meaning and relevance of digital inclusion for excluded groups in terms of : 1. Engagement, exclusion and complex needs. 2. Specificity and what this means for replication. 3. What are the key challenges that DI presents in terms of diverse and complex exclusion dynamics – a practitioners view?
This session will focus on how technology can help people with disabilities and older people to gain or regain social life, relations, and active participation in society.
This session will focus on challenges and why the engagement of the digital community is crucial. Through presenting 3 cases focused on migrants, marignilised young people and the unemployed, we will look at the common challenges and barriers to digital inclusion for those particular groups.
This session will present the Knowledge Community and Medici Catalogue & Maps as a knowledge ecosystem that builds an evolving evidence base on digital inclusion interventions addressed to socially vulnerable groups.
This project is co-funded by the European Commission. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of the partnership and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Union.
MEDICI is a two year European project aiming to develop and disseminate widely the existing best practices for integrating vulnerable and disadvantaged groups in the Digital society across the 27 EU member states and the UK.